Max Gillies

Max Gillies

Born: November 16, 1941
in Melbourne, Australia
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Max Gillies AM (born 16 November 1941 in Melbourne) is an Australian actor.

Gillies was a founding member of the experimental theatre company, the Australian Performing Group, which was active throughout the 1970s.

In 1984 and 1985 he hosted the television program The Gillies Report, on the ABC. This was followed in 1986 by Gillies Republic and in 1992 by Gillies and Company. He was famous for being able to dress up and parody mercilessly a wide range of political figures, both in these television series and in two live solo theatrical performances he delivered later – The Big Con, and You're Dreaming.

In July 2008 Gillies resurrected his caricatures of Australia's former Prime Ministers in a in a live production of No Country for Old PMs: An Evening with Max Gillies at the Noosa Long Weekend festival.

He said in an interview with The Courier-Mail that he and co-writer Guy Rundle were also watching Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a possible new caricature in a new production being developed.

"I'm watching him closely," he said.

Gillies became a Member of the Order of Australia in 1990.

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Movies for Max Gillies...

Title: Bloom
Character: Archbishop Gibson
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: TV
One year after a devastating flood kills five locals in an idyllic country town, a mysterious new plant appears with the power to restore their youth.
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The Sounds of Aus
Title: The Sounds of Aus
Character: Self
Released: November 8, 2007
Type: Movie
The Sounds of Aus tells the story of the Australian accent: how it came about, how it has evolved over two hundred years of colonial and cultural history, and how it is today.
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Wil
Title: Wil
Character: The Therapist
Released: October 19, 2006
Type: Movie
Set entirely inside a lift, which represents the inside of Wil Schindel's head, this comically philosophical journey follow's Wil as he contemplates a promotion he's just been offered.
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Title: Blue Heelers
Character: Bill Foster
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.
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The Coca-Cola Kid
Title: The Coca-Cola Kid
Character: Frank Hunter
Released: July 14, 1985
Type: Movie
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.
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Rubbish
Title: Rubbish
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A young boy creates a world of puppet friends using pieces of rubbish found in the street.
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Megalomedia
Title: Megalomedia
Character: Town Crier
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A satirical enquiry into the origins of media, their distribution and their effects on the way we behave. Those familiar with cartoonist Bruce Petty’s award winning film Leisure will enjoy the same sharp wit brought to bear on another institution, the media. This three-part film is a satirical enquiry into the origins of media, their distribution and their effects on the way we behave. The first part provides a brief history of print, radio, television and film. The second part proposes that a market-placed media produces the problem of monopolisation leading to mediocrity. Finally, Petty produces a caricature of the way ideas form in the mind from reading print, as distinct from passive looking and listening.
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Dimboola
Title: Dimboola
Character: Vivian Worcester-Jones
Released: May 11, 1979
Type: Movie
Dimboola follows the interaction of various characters at a country wedding reception.
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The Trespassers
Title: The Trespassers
Character: Publisher
Released: August 18, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1970, political journalist Richard lives with Penny but is having an affair with actress Dee. The two woman meet and become friends.
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The Great MacArthy
Title: The Great MacArthy
Character: Stan
Released: August 4, 1975
Type: Movie
Macarthy is a country town football champ who is kidnapped in a neon lit helicopter by tyrant Colonel Ball-Miller, the tycoon president of the South Melbourne football club.
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The Firm Man
Title: The Firm Man
Character: Managing Director
Released: April 9, 1975
Type: Movie
Businessman Gerald Barker is invited to join a mysterious super corporation known as The Firm. His work in the organisation turns out to be of a unique and somewhat disturbing nature. But Gerald finds no comfort with his wife Melissa and friend Barry - his relationships with both collapse. In a surreal and strange fashion, Gerald eventually comes to understand what The Firm is about. Made on a tiny budget of $15,000 the film is a mix of naturalism and stylisation which the filmmaker hoped would work on 'a simple, surrealistic level'.
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The True Story of Eskimo Nell
Title: The True Story of Eskimo Nell
Character: Dead Eye Dick
Released: March 27, 1975
Type: Movie
The bawdy saga of the most infamous whomper of all time.
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The Cars That Ate Paris
Title: The Cars That Ate Paris
Character: Metcalfe
Released: October 10, 1974
Type: Movie
After the death of his brother on the road, unemployed and unstable drifter Arthur Waldo stays for a while in the rural Australian town of Paris as the guest of the mayor, who hopes he will become a permanent member of the Paris population. Arthur soon realizes the quaint hamlet has a sinister secret: they orchestrate car accidents and rob the victims. Survivors are brought to the local hospital, lobotomized, and used for a local doctor's experiments.
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Dalmas
Title: Dalmas
Character: Rojack
Released: November 15, 1973
Type: Movie
Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avant-garde and homemade filmmaking. Telling the tale of a violent ex-cop searching for the man who killed his partner, the film takes an unexpected turn when he encounters drug lord Plastic Man and a tribe of LSD enthusiasts. What follows is both literal and metaphorical mayhem as the boundaries of the film start collapsing and our idea of what's real is pushed to its very limits.
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Dimboola: The Stage Play
Title: Dimboola: The Stage Play
Character: Bayonet
Released: May 22, 1973
Type: Movie
A recording of the Australian Performing Group's performance of their first professional production season of Jack Hibberd's play "Dimboola" staged at the Pram Factory in Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Libido
Title: Libido
Released: April 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.
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Stork
Title: Stork
Character: Uncle Jack
Released: December 27, 1971
Type: Movie
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins....