Kym Gyngell
Kym GyngellBorn April 15, 1952(1952-04-15) (age 56)
AustraliaOccupation Television actorYears active 1974 - present
Kym Gyngell (born 15 April 1952) (aka Kim Gyngell)[1] is an Australian comedian and actor.
He appeared in The Comedy Company and developed several popular characters, a few of which survived beyond The Comedy Company.
Gyngell received an AFI award in 1988 for "Best Supporting Actor" for his role in Boulevard of Broken Dreams which starred John Waters (won AFI "Best Actor").[2] Gyngell was also nominated for his performance in Heaven Tonight (1990)[2] and he appeared in What the Moon Saw (1990) all three of these films were produced by Boulevard Films.[3]
One of his characters, Col'n Carpenter (who neglects to pronounce the letter 'i' in his name Colin), is a slow Australian with unique speech mannerisms. Col'n went on to have his own sitcom that ran for two seasons.
In the early 1990's, Gyngell appeared in a series of public service announcements for the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand.
Gyngell was a regular on the popular Australian series Full Frontal during the mid-90's, where he starred alongside Eric Bana before Bana attained Hollywood fame. His most notable character included; Leon (Art critic who use to show up on A Current Affair, with Ray Martin (Eric Bana), and say the word "Crap". He is also famous for sending up Kerry O'Brian (host of the ABC's 7:30 Report) and John Laws (former 2UE radio broadcaster).
In 2007 Gyngell played Father Harris on the ABC comedy The Librarians.[4]
Contents
Selected Filmography
Television
- The Comedy Company (1988-89) - Col'n Carpenter
- Col'n Carpenter (1990-91) - Col'n Carpenter
- Full Frontal (1993-97) - Various Characters
- Fire (1995) - Jimmy Runyon
- The Micallef Program (1999) - Various Characters
- Pizza
- The Secret Life of Us (2003) - Dr. Vander
- Love My Way (2007)
- Wilfred (2007) - Dr. Jack Underwood
- The Librarians (2007) - Father Harris
- Underbelly (TV series) (2008) - Keith Faure
Films
- With Love to the Person Next to Me (1987) - Wallace
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1988) - Ian McKenzie
- Bachelor Girl (1988) - Karl Stanton
- Grievous Bodily Harm (1988) - Mick
- Heaven Tonight (1990) - Baz Schultz
- The Making of Nothing (1993) - Davo
- Love and Other Catastrophes (1996) - Professor Leech
- The Wog Boy (2000) - Supervisor
- The Hard Word (2002) - Paul
- The Writer (2005) - Jonathan
- Josh Jarman (2004) - Stan Billows
- Blow (2002) - Richard
References
- ^ Internet Movie Database entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0350479
- ^ a b IMDb Kym Gyngell awards: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0350479/awards
- ^ IMDb Boulevard Films entry: http://us.imdb.com/company/co0071996
- ^ The Librarians - TV Review. theage.com.au. Retrieved on 2007-12-27.
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