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David McPhail
AuthorBooks · Second hand1945-2021
David Alexander McPhail was a New Zealand comedic actor and writer whose television career spanned four decades. McPhail first won fame on sketch comedy show A Week of It, partly thanks to his impressions of New Zealand prime minister Robert Muldoon. He went on to appear in multiple series of sketch show McPhail and Gadsby, and hit comedy Letter to Blanchy. All three shows featured his longtime friend Jon Gadsby.
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About David McPhail
Birth
1945
Death
2021
David Alexander McPhail was a New Zealand comedic actor and writer whose television career spanned four decades. McPhail first won fame on sketch comedy show A Week of It, partly thanks to his impressions of New Zealand prime minister Robert Muldoon. He went on to appear in multiple series of sketch show McPhail and Gadsby, and hit comedy Letter to Blanchy. All three shows featured his longtime friend Jon Gadsby.
David McPhail was a versatile New Zealand artist who excelled in both acting and writing.
His prolific literary career spans nearly two hundred published works.
He is widely recognized for his endearing children's fiction stories, where bears are frequent protagonists.
Friendship is a recurring theme that runs through much of his narrative for young readers.
Born in Christchurch, his artistic legacy left an indelible mark on New Zealand culture.
