Lucky Grills
Leo "Lucky" Grills (OAM) (26 May 1928 – 27 July 2007), was an Australian actor and comedian.
Early life and career
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Grills was best known for portraying the title role of unconventional detective "Bluey" Hills in the television series Bluey in 1976.
Prior to Bluey, he worked as a stand up comic in the Sydney clubs. He would change his material to suit his audience, stating: "Some people know me as the dirtiest comic in the business... but others know me as a man who never drops even a mild four letter word."
One time in Adelaide, he had done a show and needed to get a taxi. He had put on a big houndstooth checked sports jacket and carrying a suitcase. The taxi driver looked at him and asked where he had been wrestling. Lucky had to set him straight and let him know he wasn't a wrestler but a comic. For the rest of the journey, Lucky had to listen to the cabbie telling old jokes.
He also did three hundred weeks in a migrant education programme called "Say the Word" where he played the owner of a factory. "It was designed to show newcomers to Australia how things were done and to teach them English", he explains.
Grills, Lucky Filmography
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2010, role: actor , character name: Station Master
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2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2000, role: actor , character name: Fat Man
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1990, role: actor , character name: Mr. Collins
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1987, role: actor
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1987, role: actor , character name: Humphrey
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1984, role: actor
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1983, role: actor , character name: George Harris, President of Carlton Football Club
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1983, role: actor , character name: Dogcatcher
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1982, role: actor , character name: Brewery Truckdriver
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1980, role: actor
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1978, role: actor , character name: Robert Conway
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1976, role: actor , character name: Pawnbroker
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1968, role: actor
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1963, role: actor , character name: Himself
