# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/garry-mcdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:53:40.342Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/garry-mcdonald"
name: "Garry McDonald"
slug: "garry-mcdonald"
description: "Garry George McDonald AO is an Australian comedian, television host, actor, satirist and mental health activist. In a career spanning six 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 and is a Logie Hall of Fame inductee. He is also famed for his role of the hapless Arthur Beare in the television sitcom Mother and Son, as well as his numerous surporting roles in feature films."
tagline: "Australian actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/h5cMwoi2OK0BWhqX5tBHKlC348k.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.0999
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567769/"
    handle:    "nm0567769"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "غاري ماكدونالد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جارى ماكدونالد (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "قری مک‌دونالد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Garry McDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_McDonald"
    title: "Garry McDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "گری مک‌دونالد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Garry McDonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "게리 맥도널드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1681792f-822c-4fa8-9ff0-bc1a5d5af1b0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Garry McDonald"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump