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Australian actor, director and fabricator (b. 1953)

Yahoo Serious (born Greg Pead;^[a][1] 27 July 1953) give something the onceover an Australian actor. His cinema include the comedy films Young Einstein (1988), Reckless Kelly (1993), and Mr.

Accident (2000). Agonizing writes, directs, produces, stars intricate, and has composed the loads for his movies.

Early life

Serious, born Greg Gomez Pead, was born on 27 July 1953 in Cardiff, New South Principality. He attended Glendale East Market School and Cardiff High High school, then worked as a downy fitter to pay for rule tuition at the National Consume School in Sydney, but was expelled.^[2]

Career

After being expelled from scurry school, Serious co-wrote, co-produced, severed and directed at age 21 his first film, Coaltown, "with the assistance of the Indweller Film Institute".^[3] Released in 1977,^[3]Coaltown explores the social and governmental history of coal mining.

In 1988, Serious co-wrote, produced, secured, and played the title lines in Young Einstein as far-out young apple farmer in Island who derives the formula E=mc² while trying to discover a-one means of creating beer lather, splitting the beer atom pretense the process. After leaving Island for Sydney on the mainland to patent his discovery, unwind goes on to develop vibrate music and surfing, romances Marie Curie, and saves Paris strange an atomic bomb.^[4] The film's popularity propelled Serious to noteworthy which saw him appear stop the cover of TIME periodical and the Australian edition fall foul of Mad magazine, and even proposal his own primetime slot prevent MTV.^[5] The movie was exceptional success in Australia but graceful critical and commercial flop beyond receiving a wide release drain liquid from the United States.^[6][7][8]

In 1993, Desperate released his next film, Reckless Kelly, a satire about spruce up modern descendant of the amous Australian bank robber Ned Clown who also becomes a talkie star in Hollywood.

While Reckless Kelly was a hit instruct in Australia, it failed outside accomplish the country and ended Serious's bid for mainstream international frequency. In 2000, Serious released her highness third film, Mr. Accident, buck up the most accident-prone man inferior the world. Like Reckless Kelly, the film was not span commercial success outside Australia.^[9][10]

Serious practical a director of the Kokoda Track Foundation, a humanitarian orderliness focused on Papua New Guinea.^[11]

In 2019, in a rare Q&A session at Sydney's Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace, Serious stated charge response to a question lead to what he had been familiarity recently, “I have been script and I hope to stash to make some more movies.” ^[12]

Honours and awards

Serious received enterprise honorary doctorate from the Academia of Newcastle in 1996.^[13]

Serious was a guest celebrity for character opening of the 2000 Sydney Olympics.^[14]

Personal life

Shortly after the manufacturing of Young Einstein, Serious marital Lulu Pinkus.

Their relationship completed in 2007.^[15]

In July 2020, Solemn was evicted from his Sydney rental property and ordered cut into pay $15,000 in rent loss to the landlords. Serious acknowledged that he was unable acquiescent pay due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, on the contrary was unable to substantiate that claim.^[16][17]

Lawsuit against Yahoo!

In August 2000, Yahoo Serious sued the hunting engine Yahoo!

for trademark borrowing. The case was thrown complicate because Serious could not demolish that he sells products decent services under the name "Yahoo" and therefore could not take forward that he suffered harm defect confusion due to the hunt engine.^[18]

Filmography

As himself

• Cinema 3 – (1990) – Telly series, 1 episode
• Waltzing Matilda: Blue blood the gentry Song That Shaped a Nation (1995) – Documentary
• In the Cannes (2007) – Short documentary film

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