Mike Walsh (TV host)
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| Born | 3 August 1938  Corowa, New South Wales, Australia |
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Mike Walsh OBE (born 5 March 1938 in Corowa, New South Wales) was host of The Mike Walsh Show from 1973 until 1985. Walsh is the only entertainer to be awarded the Sammy Award and Gold Logie award in the same year.
Walsh completed his education at Xavier College in Melbourne, Victoria, before studying Pharmacy and Arts at Melbourne University.
After a successful media career in television and radio, Walsh began producing theatre shows across Australia and on London's West End. He has been the owner of Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne since 2000, and funded and overseen its restoration. Walsh also owns the Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace, an art deco, six cinema complex in Cremorne, Sydney.
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