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GaryMcCormick

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Known for his many live tours as a poet, debater and speaker, Kiwi legend Gary McCormick has made a host of appearances on New Zealand television. His work on the talk show McCormick and long-running series Heartland helped make him television's most popular presenter in a 1999 newspaper poll. 

Screenography

2021 Subject Series
2013 - 2015 Presenter Series
The Great New Zealand Spelling Bee
2006 Contestant Television

Biography

Lyttelton-based Gary McCormick is a man of many talents.

McCormick was working as a gardener at Porirua Hospital when he began his first poetry tour, after his 1976 collection Naked and Nameless won a Pen Poetry Award.

Awards

1998 TV Guide Television Awards
Best Entertainment Series: McCormick

1997 New Zealand Entertainer of the Year

“I like to improvise.”

Gary McCormick

Related images

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Gary McCormick dons his winter woolies in Heartland, Living in the Maniototo.