Gordon McDougall

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gordon McDougall (born Glasgow, Scotland) was an Australian-based theatre and television actor. McDougall trained at the Glasgow Athenaeum (later known as the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) and began acting in 1936, working in various facets of the entertainment industry. He emigrated to Australia and over a long career on the stage appeared in more than 50 theatre productions. These included Death of a Salesman, Cat Among the Pigeons, Habeas Corpus, 1776 and Promises, Promises. He played in Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing for the Nimrod Theatre. In the 1970s McDougall began appearing in Australian television drama series and comedies. He subsequently found his widest audiences through his portrayal of amateur inventor Les Whittaker, husband to brassy barmaid Norma (Sheila Kennelly), in the phenomenally successful sex-comedy television soap opera Number 96. Les and Norma were added to the series early in its 1972 1977 run and became enormously popular.