Garry McDonald

Garry George McDonald AO is an Australian actor, satirist and comedian. In a career spanning five decades he has had many theatre, television and film roles, and has been listed as a National Living Treasure. He is best known as the seemingly naive celebrity interviewer Norman Gunston, through whom he pioneered the "ambush interviewer" technique since followed by many others. He received a Gold Logie award for the television Norman Gunston Show in which he developed the character. He is also famed for his role of the hapless Arthur Beare in the television sitcom Mother and Son. Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2003 for service to the community in the mental health field and to the arts as an entertainer, he has also been a board member of the Australian mental health organisation Beyond Blue. ^{Garry McDonald, Australian actor and screenwriter}

30 October 1948

Born on the same birth date (30 October 1948): Richard Alston (choreographer)

Born on the same birth day (30 October): Andrew Solomon • Anne of Alençon • Bobby Bragan • Camila Silva (tennis) • Charles Atlas • Charles Martin Smith • Frans Brüggen • Harry R. Truman • Joe Delaney • John Adams • Ken Stringfellow • Marco Scutaro • Robert Caro • Tzanis Stavrakopoulos • Valli Lember-Bogatkina

Born in the same month (October 1948): Avery Brooks • David Rendall • Hans Köchler • Hermann Hauser • Iain Hewitson • Jackson Browne • James Howard Kunstler • Ntozake Shange • Persis Khambatta • Robert Jordan • Steve Rucker (composer)