Garry McDonald

Garry McDonald is an Australian comedian, actor, television host and satirist with six decades of theater, television and film work. Born in Bondi, he trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and earned a diploma in acting in 1967. On The Aunty Jack Show in 1973 he introduced Norman Gunston, the gauche celebrity interviewer, and that character led him to pioneer the ambush interview. The Norman Gunston Show brought him a Gold Logie, and he is also remembered as Arthur Beare in the sitcom Mother and Son, which he played from 1984 to 1994 and for which he won the 1994 Gold Logie. From 2012 he was a regular on the drama Offspring as Doctor Philip Noonan. As Gunston he recorded satirical pop parodies with several Top 40 hits. He became an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2003, is a National Living Treasure and a Logie Hall of Fame inductee, and has taken many supporting film roles.