Slim De Grey

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| name = Slim De Grey

| image = Slim De Grey pic.jpg

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| birth_name = Clifford Frank de Grey

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1918|05|20}}

| birth_place = Lytham, Lancashire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2007|03|16|1918|05|20}}

| death_place = Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

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| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|compere|musician|lyricist|composer|comedian}}

| yearsactive = c. 1942-1990, 2001.

| spouse = Christina de Grey (d. 2016){{cite web|url=https://mytributes.com.au/notice/funeral-notices/de-grey-christina/4124670/|title=DE Grey, Christina}}

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Clifford Frank Degrey{{cite web|url=https://austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A103295|title=DeGrey, Clifford}} (20 May 1918 – 16 March 2007), professionally known as Slim DeGrey and also credited as Slim De Grey and Slim de Gray. was an English-born Australian actor, compere, musician, lyricist, composer and comedian.

{{Cite web |url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/changi-star-slim-de-grey-dies/story-e6frfmq9-1111113575055 |title=Changi star Slim de Grey dies |access-date=2015-12-01 |archive-date=2015-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151212003451/http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/changi-star-slim-de-grey-dies/story-e6frfmq9-1111113575055 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://moawards.com/home/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-slim-de-grey/ |title=Hall of fame Slim-De-Grey | Australian Entertainment |access-date=2015-12-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208064203/http://moawards.com/home/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-slim-de-grey/ |archive-date=2015-12-08 }}

Biography

DeGrey who was born in Lancashire, England came to Australia aged six, he served in the Australian Army during World War II, seeing action in the Malayan campaign with the 2/10th Field Ambulance, part of the 8th Division of the Second Australian Imperial Force. He became a POW at the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 and was imprisoned in Changi Prison until the end of the war. While at Changi he composed, presented and produced shows.{{Cite web|url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/ART26495/|title = Men of AIF Concert Party (Doug Peart, Slim de Grey, Fred Brightfield, John Wood, Doug Mathers, Eric Beattie, Harry Smith and Keith Stevens)}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?ServiceId=A&VeteranId=176259|title = DVA's Nominal Rolls}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173134499 |title=CHANGI P.O.W. SOUVENIR SONG BOOK PUBLISHED. |newspaper=The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate (NSW : 1910 - 1954) |location=NSW |date=15 November 1946 |accessdate=1 December 2015 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134372982 |title=Three Christmas In Jap P.O.W. Camps. |newspaper=Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) |location=NSW |date=22 December 1945 |accessdate=1 December 2015 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article135725433 |title="ON WITH THE SHOW". |newspaper=Narromine News and Trangie Advocate (NSW : 1898 - 1955) |location=NSW |date=4 July 1947 |accessdate=1 December 2015 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

Degrey appeared in film roles including Newsfront (1978) and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001) and appeared in the miniseries Changi, coincidently enough the only survivor who was imprisoned at Changi.

His television roles included Young Ramsay, Bellamy and Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.

Personal life

He was married to Christina de Grey (c.1926/1927-2016) and they had two sons: Calvin, an actor (1957-2008); and Darrell. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Mo Awards.

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable"

! Title

! Year

! Role

! Type

1966

| They're a Weird Mob

| Pat

| Feature film

1969

| You Can't See 'round Corners

| Mick Patterson

| TV film

1969

| Age of Consent

| Cooley

| Feature film

1971

| Demonstrator

| Alexander Gurney

| Feature film

1971

| Wake in Fright

| Jarvis

| Feature film

1974

| Stone

| Hannigan

| Feature film

1978

| Newsfront

| Fay's Father

| Feature film

1979

| The Journalist

| Chief Interviewer

| Feature film

1982

| The Highest Honor

| Leading Stoker J.P. McDowell

| TV movie

1983

| Undercover

| Dignitary

| Feature film

1983

| Molly

| Tommy

| Feature film

1986

| I Own the Racecourse

| Waiter #2

| TV movie

1989

| Kokoda Crescent

| Aub

| Film

1989

| The Saint: Fear in Fun Park

| RSL Man

| TV movie

1990

| Dead Sleep

| Mr. McCarthy

| Feature film

2001

| Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

| Minister

| Feature film

=Television=

class="wikitable"

! Title

! Year

! Role

! Type

1967

| Love and War

| TV miniseries: Intersection

1967

| Contrabandits

| Wilson

| TV series

1967

| You Can't See Round Corners

| Mick Patterson

| TV series

1969

| Riptide

| Carl

| TV series, 7 episodes

1968-69

| Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

| Charlie / Skeen

| TV series

1970

| The Rovers

| Terry Claffey

| TV series

1969-70

| Woobinda (Animal Doctor)

| Jack Johnson

| TV series

1970

| The Games

| Hunt Driver

| Feature film

1969-71

| Homicide

| Constable Harry Johnson / Joe Pitt / Percy Thompson

| TV series

1971

| Dead Men Running

| TV miniseries

1972

| Division 4

| Miles Duncan

| TV series

1972

| Boney

| Walsh

| TV series

1972

| The Spoiler

| Detective Sergeant Eric Evans

| TV series

1973

| Our Man in the Company

| Farmer

| TV series

1974

| Silent Number

| Kevin Donaldson

| TV series

1971-75

| Matlock Police

| Alfred Jones / Clem Davis / Dave Shaw

| TV series

1979

|Chopper Squad

| Jack Pearce

| TV series

1980

| Young Ramsay

| Reg Coxton

| TV series

1981

| Bellamy

| Sam

| TV miniseries

1983

| Silent Reach

| Max Burnie

| TV miniseries

1983

| Scales of Justice

| Paul Stewman

| TV miniseries

1983, 1984

| A Country Practice

| Mr. Owens / Dixie Walker

| TV series

1985

| Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe

| Taxi Driver

| TV miniseries

1988

| The Dirtwater Dynasty

| Babcock

| TV miniseries

2001

| Changi

| Older "John" Curly" Foster

| TV miniseries

Awards

=Mo Awards=

The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Mo Awards), were annual Australian entertainment industry awards, that recognised achievements in live entertainment in Australia from 1975 to 2016. Slim DeGrey won four awards in that time.{{cite web|url=https://www.moawards.com.au/awardwinners|title=MO Award Winners|website=Mo Awards|access-date=16 March 2022}}

{{awards table}} (wins only)

| 1975

| Slim De Grey

| Comedian of the Year

| {{won}}

| 1976

| Slim De Grey

| Comedian of the Year

| {{won}}

| 1978

| Slim De Grey

| Comedian of the Year