Greig Pickhaver

Greig Pickhaver
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Greig Pickhaver AM (born 1948?, also known as H.[HARRY]G. Nelson) is an actor, comedian and writer, who forms one half of the Australian sports comedy duo Roy and HG. The award-winning duo originally teamed up in 1986 for the Triple J radio comedy program This Sporting Life, which was broadcast nationwide for 22 years and led to several successful TV spinoffs.[1]

This Sporting Life was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2013.[2]

Television Programs

With John Doyle as Rampaging Roy Slaven, they have appeared on television shows such as The Dream with Roy and HG, This Sporting Life, Blah Blah Blah, Club Buggery, The Channel Nine Show, Planet Norwich, Win Roy and HG's Money, The Monday Dump, The Nation Dumps, The Ice Dream with Roy and HG, The Cream, The Dream in Athens, The Memphis Trousers Half Hour, and Roy and H.G’s Russian Revolution. Pickhaver joined Stephen Quartermain and Alisa Camplin for the Sochi Tonight show during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in February 2014, and was featured in the SBS series Who Do You Think You Are? in September 2015.

Personal life

Pickhaver was born in Nuriootpa, South Australia and is a graduate of Flinders University. After a stint as a roadie for Australian rocker Billy Thorpe in the early 1970s, Pickhaver moved into radio broadcasting on 3RRR in Melbourne. This led to acting and comedy, developing the HG Nelson character while performing in the Melbourne radio sports comedy show Punter To Punter in the early 1980s. He met Doyle in 1985 while both were playing minor characters in an SBS TV show and they teamed up as Roy and HG in 1986.

Film

Pickhaver has appeared in many TV programs and advertisements (often as HG Nelson) and starred in the cult Australian comedy film This Won't Hurt a Bit[3] opposite Jacqueline McKenzie. In 2003 he appeared in the political comedy, The Honourable Wally Norman.

Published works

References

  1. ↑ "Biographical cuttings on Greig Pickhaver, broadcaster and entertainer". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
  2. ↑ National Film and Sound Archive: Sounds of Australia.
  3. ↑ "This Won't Hurt a Bit". Internet Movie Database.
  4. ↑ Nelson, H. G.; Roy Slaven (1989). Pants off, this sporting life. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: ABC Enterprises for Australian Broadcasting Corporation. p. 143. ISBN 0-642-12888-X.
  5. ↑ Nelson, H. G.; Tobacco Interagency Committee of the A.C.T (1994). "Where it all went wrong (sound recording) : address delivered by H.G. Nelson, anti-smoking activist, to the National Press Club, Canberra on World No Tobacco Day, 1 June 1994". 1 digital audio tape (ca. 47 min.). Retrieved 2009-04-09.
  6. ↑ Nankervis, Brian; Slaven, R.; Nelson, H. G. (1994). Boys and balls. St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin. p. 257. ISBN 1-86373-738-3.
  7. ↑ Nelson, H. G.; Roy Slaven; Reg Mombassa (1996). "Petrol, bait, ammo & ice". Book. Pan Macmillan. p. 220. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
  8. ↑ Nelson, H. G.; James de Vries (1999). "It's yours for a sawn-off! : Sameranch's Sydney". Book. Random House Australia. p. 92. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
  9. ↑ Nelson, H. G., ed. (2005). The really stuffed guide to good food 2006. Sydney: Pan Macmillam Australia. p. 233. ISBN 1-4050-3697-4.
  10. ↑ Nelson, H. G. (2008). Sprays. Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia. p. 225. ISBN 978-1-4050-3883-6.
  11. ↑ Nelson,H.G., ed. (2011). My life in SHORTS. Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia. ISBN 9781405039451.

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