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Reg Grundy

R.I.P. Reg Grundy 1923-2016

by Paul Cashmere on May 9, 2016

in News

Australian television legend Reg Grundy has died at the age of 93.

Grundy was the father of Australian television creating the platform via his catalogue of shows that paved the way for young Australian actors to learn their craft before taking on Hollywood and the world.

Reg Grundy started his career as a sports commentator at 2SM in Sydney in 1947. In 1957 at 2CH Sydney he devised and hosted the first Wheel of Fortune as a radio show. In 1959 he evolved the show to TV and later licensed the format worldwide where today it is still one of television’s greatest hits.

Grundy created Australia’s most successful soap operas including ‘Neighbours’ where Kylie Minogue first had an international impact and ‘Prisoner’, today reinvented as ‘Wentworth’.

Red Grundy’s name also became part of Australian culture with ‘Red Grundies’ used as rhyming slang for ‘Undies’.

In 2008 Reg Grundy was made a Companion of the Order of Australia by Queen Elizabeth II.

Reg Grundy was born in Sydney and lived the last years of his life in Bermuda.

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