Gary Files

Gary Files is an Australian actor, theater director and radio writer who began his career in Australian television and semi-professional theater in 1956, then moved to Canada. A Canada Council scholarship took him to the National Theatre School, and he won a Telegram Award as most promising newcomer for Oh, What a Lovely War! He spent four years in Britain, performing with the Bristol Old Vic and in the West End. Noted for his accentual range in radio-based voice work, he voiced Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation productions, starting with the film Thunderbird 6 (1968) and continuing with Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90 and The Secret Service. He later acted in CBC radio drama and wrote for CBC Radio, and after settling in Australia he appeared in films including Money Movers (1978) and took television roles. From 1993 he directed classical theater with the Period Pieces Company, and he won an AWGIE Award for the radio serial Uncle Vinny's Wireless.