Lucky Grills - RIP

Last night a one of a kind Australian entertainer was lost to us. The oddly-named Leo 'Lucky' Grills was an actor, an author, a musician, and even (more recently) a comedian.




He played the title role in the 1976 police series Bluey, although he was far better known to younger audiences as Detective Sergeant Bargearse, from the dubbed Bluey footage screened for comical effect in the 1993 season of The Late Show.








I grabbed this from some news site somewhere online:

“Fellow entertainer Danny McMaster has told Macquarie radio in Sydney the 79-year-old was still performing happily yesterday. He says Grills died in his sleep last night.”

(Hey, I may not be credited my source correctly, but at least I’m not passing it off as my own work!)









I wonder who farted ...


Grills will be sorely missed; particularly by those of us who were used to seeing him chase down criminals who’d stolen his doughnuts, singing love songs to young nymphettes he’s somehow managed to get up to his apartment, or simply farting his way out of an elevator - all using Tony Martin’s voice.









Lucky Grills:
26th May, 1928 — 27th July, 2007.


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