More About This Page
Looking for reviews of Max Gillies movies? Cinafilm has a total of 95 reviews across 5 movies.
Movies starring Max Gillies have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 54%.
A Woman's Tale - released in 1991 - is Max Gillies's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 3 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Max Gillies is Dimboola - released in 1979 - with a score of 47% based on 1 reviews.
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.
Max Gillies has acted in films with Bruce Spence, Chris Haywood, Peter Armstrong and Colleen Clifford.
Max Gillies has worked with these film directors: Peter Weir, Dušan Makavejev, John Duigan and Tim Burstall.
Popular Movies Right Now
