Ugly Dave Gray

Graham David Taylor, 26 December 1933 in Manchester), known better as Ugly Dave Gray, is a British Australian television personality and comedian.

Career

Gray was a regular panellist on Graham Kennedy's Blankety Blanks in 1977-1978. He had earlier taken a straight dramatic role as publican Bunny Howard in the early episodes of soap opera The Young Doctors in 1976. He left his role in The Young Doctors after his initial 13-week contract expired in order to work on Blankety Blanks. Kennedy himself had convinced Gray to do Blankety Blanks Gray had been receiving $100 a day for The Young Doctors, with Blankety Blanks paying $45 an episode this represented a pay cut. Later Gray signed with agent Harry M Miller who negotiated the increased pay rate of $75 per episode of Blankety Blanks which remained until the series ended.

Gray hosted an Australian version of the American game show Beat The Clock called Free for All in 1973.

Gray was appointed Court Jester to 1977 King of Moomba Mickey Mouse (controversial choice with some Melburnians preferring a 'home-grown' Blinky Bill).

Dave Gray

David Alexander Gray (born January 7, 1943 in Ogden, Utah) is an American former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1964 season. Listed at 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) and 190 lb (86 kg), he batted and threw right-handed.

Gray was signed by the Red Sox out of the Weber State University. After spending his first year in professional baseball, 1963, at the minor league level, Gary was kept on Boston's Major League roster for the entire 1964 campaign to keep him from being drafted by other MLB teams under the terms of the Bonus Rule then in force. In nine Major League appearances, Gray posted a 9.00 ERA with 17 strikeouts and 20 bases on balls in 13 innings of work, including one start and six games finished. He did not have a decision.

Gray is one of only a few dozen major leaguers to have a perfect lifetime 1.000 batting average. On June 20, 1964, he singled off Milt Pappas of the Baltimore Orioles in the seventh inning of the game at Memorial Stadium. It was Gray's only Major League at bat. He retired after the 1970 minor league season.