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Graham David Taylor, 26 December 1933 in Manchester, England) and 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, Dave. ''It's Funny Being Ugly'', New Holland Publishers, 2005. ISBN 1-74110-409-2 pp 125-6〕 Gray had been receiving $100 a day for ''The Young Doctors'', with ''Blankety Blanks'' paying $45 an episode this represented a pay cut.〔Gray, Dave. ''It's Funny Being Ugly'', New Holland Publishers, 2005. ISBN 1-74110-409-2 p 126〕 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, Dave. ''It's Funny Being Ugly'', New Holland Publishers, 2005. ISBN 1-74110-409-2 p 133〕 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).〔Craig Bellamy, Gordon Chisholm, Hilary Eriksen (17 February 2006) ''Moomba: A festival for the people.'': http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/rsrc/PDFs/Moomba/History%20of%20Moomba.pdf PDF pp 17-22〕 Gray later hosted the celebrity game show ''Celebrity Tattle Tales'' from 1979-1980, and ''Play Your Cards Right'' from 1984-1985. In the 1980s Gray also presented a drive-time radio program on 3UZ, with Mary Hardy. According to Gray's autobiography ''It's Funny Being Ugly'', on 31 May 2005 Gray was not invited to speak at Kennedy's funeral, and did not know where the funeral was to be held. He had to call presenter Philip Brady for details.〔Gray, Dave. ''It's Funny Being Ugly'', New Holland Publishers, 2005. ISBN 1-74110-409-2 p 224〕 On 19 October 2011, Gray appeared in a comedy sketch for the ABC1 show Hamster Wheel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ugly Dave Gray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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