Max Cryer

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John Maxwell "Max" Cryer, MBE, is a New Zealand television producer and presenter, radio broadcaster, entertainment producer, singer, cabaret performer and author.

Biography

John Maxwell "Max" Cryer, MBE, is a New Zealand television producer and presenter, radio broadcaster, entertainment producer, singer, cabaret performer and author.

Cryer was educated in Vienna, Italy, and New Zealand, and holds a Master's degree with Honours in Language and Literature. His professional career began onstage at Sadlers Wells Opera, London, with appearances on BBC and Wigmore Hall. His performing activity then widened to include musical theatre, recording, television and cabaret. In 1969 a Hollywood agency contracted him for ten years as an entertainer, leading to fifteen tours of USA appearing in San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

In New Zealand, Max Cryer was the country’s first TV quizmaster and subsequently made over 300 appearances on television as entertainer, and hosted twelve different TV series including NZ’s first live talk-variety show "Town Cryer." As a singer he recorded long-playing albums with his “singing children” and his stage roles include Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady," the King in "The King and I," Count Danilo in "The Merry Widow" and Prince Orlovsky in "Die Fledermaus."

Cryer was Chairman for the Oxford Union debating team ( 1975), joined TVNZ in 1977 as producer and for the next ten years produced University Challenge NZ and Mastermind NZ, (including Mastermind International for the BBC). For ten years he was columnist in the ‘NZ Herald’ and ‘The NZ Womans Weekly,’ was drama reviewer for the ‘Sunday Star Times’ and a judge of the Watties (NZ Post) Book Awards(1981).

The New Zealand Government seconded him to direct all New Zealand entertainment for the World Expo 1988 (Brisbane) and World Expo 1992 (Seville) where he organised and supervised over 1000 Māori musical and cultural performances, and became repertoire co-ordinator for Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's best-selling recording of Māori music.

From 1997 his weekly radio session (now on Radio Live) answers listeners' questions on the English language. His awards include New Zealand Entertainer of the Year, the Variety Artists’ Club’s ‘Benny Award’, the 1990 Commemoration Medal for services to New Zealand, and in 1995 - Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to entertainment. Cryer appears as narrator with the country’s orchestras, and as MC for visiting notables ( Prince Charles, Charlton Heston, Countess Mountbatten) and occasionally still performs his one-man show “The Max Factor.” Now a full-time writer, he has topped the NZ non-fiction best-seller list three times ( 2001; 2002; 2012), and besides New Zealand his books have been published in Australia, United Kingdom, Italy, America, Germany and Russia.


Bibliography

Town Cryer (Collins, Auckland, 1978) The Mastermind Quiz Book ( BCNZ Enterprises,1985) New Zealand Day by Day (Harper Moa Beckett, 1988) Curious Questions (Harper Collins 2001) Curious Kiwi Words (Harper Collins 2002) Curious Thoughts (Harper Collins 2002) More Curious Questions ( Harper Collins, 2003) Hear Our Voices, We Entreat (Exisle 2004) Max Vocab, with Cherie Brown ( Harcourt Education, 2004) Cat Miscellany (Blake Publishing 2005) The Godzone Dictionary (Exisle 2006) Love Me Tender (Exisle 2008) Who Said That First (Exisle 2010) Preposterous Proverbs (Exisle 2011) Curious ( Exisle, 2012) Every Dog Has its Day ( Exisle, 2013) It Ain’t Necessarily So ( Exisle 2014)

References

1.^ London Gazette (supplement), No. 53894, 30 December 1994. 2.^ "Variety Artists Club of NZ Benny Award Information and Recipients". Town Cryer (Collins, Auckland, 1978) ISBN 0-00-216934-7 Who’s Who in New Zealand',' edited by Max Lambert (1991, Reed, Wellington, 12th edn)

External links Max Cryer at Speakers New Zealand


Bibliography

  • Town Cryer (Collins, Auckland, 1978) ISBN 0-00-216934-7 (autobiography)
  • Day by Day (Harper Moa Beckett, 1988) ISBN 1-86958-721-9
  • Curious Questions
  • Curious Kiwi Words (2002)
  • Hear Our Voices, We Entreat (Exile 2004)
  • Cat Miscellany (Blake Publishing 2005) ISBN 1-8445-416-9
  • The Godzone Dictionary (Exile 2006)
  • Love Me Tender (Exile 2008)
  • Who Said That First (Exile 2010)
  • Preposterous Proverbs (Exile 2011) ISBN 978-1-921497-45-2
  • Every Dog Has Its Day (Exile 2013) ISBN 978-1-921966-28-6
  • Max Vocab: Journeys in the English Language and Max Vocab: Fun Lessons in the English Language. Co-author: Cherie Brown. (Raupo Publishing (NZ) Ltd. 2004) ISBN 1877348538 and ISBN 9781877348532

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