Greig Pickhaver Biography
Greig Pickhaver AM is an actor, comedian, and writer best known as the enthusiastic sports commentator HG Nelson in the Australian satirical sports comedy duo Roy and HG.
How old is Greig Pickhaver? – Age
He is 75 years old as of 10 February 2023. She was born in 1948 in Nuriootpa, Australia.
Greig Pickhaver Family – Education
Pickhaver was born Gordon Samuel Pickhaver and Beryl Marion Rebecca Pickhaver née Skuce at Walwa Private Hospital in Myrtle Bank, South Australia. His father was a World War II soldier who served in the Middle East and on the Kokoda Track and afterwards worked in the dairy business in South Australia. Pickhaver has three sisters (Jane, Anne, and Mary), as well as a brother named Mark.
Pickhaver grew up on Morphett Road in Warradale, South Australia, until the age of 15, when his family relocated to Prospect, where he remained until the age of 22. He went to Oaklands Park Primary School, Brighton Secondary School, and Adelaide High School for his final two years of high school. He received his bachelor’s degree from Flinders University and describes himself as dyslexic, having always depended largely on memory and recall to attain academic success.
Greig Pickhaver Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $7 Million.
Greig Pickhaver Career
Pickhaver acted in plays at school and at college. After a spell as a roadie for Australian rocker Billy Thorpe in the mid-1970s, he became engaged with the Melbourne theater co-usable The Pram Manufacturing plant. He moved into radio telecom on 3RRR in Melbourne and fostered the HG Nelson character while acting in the Melbourne radio games parody show Punter To Punter in the mid-1980s.
Pickhaver met John Doyle in 1985 while both were playing minor characters in an SBS Television program, and they collaborated as Roy and HG in 1986. Their radio satire program This Donning Life was communicated at first in Sydney and later broadly on the Australian Telecom Company’s Triple J youth radio organization. It was persistently live for a 22-year time span till 2008. This Donning Life was added to the Public Film and Sound Document’s Hints of Australia library in 2013.
With John Doyle as Rampaging Roy Slaven, Pickhaver has shown up on TV programs, for example, The Fantasy with Roy and HG, This Wearing Life, Yakkity yak, Club Buggery, The Channel Nine Show, Planet Norwich, Win Roy and HG’s Cash, The Monday Dump, The Country Dumps, The Ice Dream with Roy and HG, The Cream, The Fantasy in Athens, The Memphis Pants Half Hour, and Roy and HG’s Russian Transformation.
Pickhaver facilitated It’s a Knockout from 2011 to 2012 close by previous Hello 5 star Charli Robinson and sports moderator Brad McEwan. Pickhaver joined Stephen Quartermain and Alisa Camplin for the Sochi This Evening show during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in February 2014 and was highlighted in the SBS series Who Do You Assume You Are? in September 2015. A large number of his TV valuable open doors have been “elective” sports show inclusions of the Mid year or Winter Olympics.
Pickhaver featured in the clique 1993 Australian satire film This Won’t Hurt a Piece inverse Jacqueline McKenzie. In 2003, he showed up in the political parody The Decent Wally Norman.
