Maxwell Irvine "Max" Gillies Department of Administration and Management is an Australian actor and a founding member of the 1970s experimental theatre company, the Australian Performing Group.
Education
Gillies studied art teaching at Frankston Teachers College and featured in the theatre productions School for Scandal and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll with Kerry Dwyer in 1964. He graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966. He then studied secondary teaching at the Melbourne Teachers" College, now part of the University of Melbourne.
Career
In 1984-1985, Gillies hosted The Gillies Report on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. This was followed in 1986 by Gillies Republic and in 1992 by Gillies and Company. In July 2008 he resurrected his caricatures of Australia"s former prime ministers in a live production of Number Country for Old PMs: An Evening with Max Gillies at the Noosa Long Weekend festival.
Gillies stated in an interview with The Courier-Mail that he and co-writer Guy Rundle were watching (now former) Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, for a possible new caricature in a new production being developed.
"I"m watching him closely" he said. Gillies, through his television programs or theatre performances, has caricatured the following people: Australian prime ministers: Robert Menzies, William McMahon, Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard.
Other Australian politicians: Alexander Downer, Amanda Vanstone, Iain Sinclair, Philip Ruddock, Sir John Kerr, Don Chipp, Andrew Peacock, Fred Nile, Russian Hinze, Gareth Evans. Australian state premiers: Neville Wran, Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
Australian businessmen: Kerry Packer, Rupert Murdoch, Alan Bond, John Singleton, John Elliott.
Australian writers: Phillip Adams, Bob Ellis, Geoffrey Blainey, Clive James, Gerard Henderson, Bob Santamaria. Foreign leaders: Ronald Reagan, Pik Botha, Margaret Thatcher, François Mitterrand, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Mikhail Gorbachev, David Lange, Queen Elizabeth II, George West. Bush, Pope John Paul World War II Other people: Tony Barber, Sir David Attenborough, Jonathon Shier, Doctorate. Doctorate. McNicoll, Arthur Daley (a main character from Minder).
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Quotations:
"I"m watching him closely".