Gary Files

Australia On his return to Melbourne, Files played the lead in City Sugar for the Melbourne Theatre Company before joining the South Australian Theatre Company in Adelaide for City Sugar again, then Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?. Sydney and the Opera House were next doing The Lady From Maxim's for the Old Tote Theatre Company. Back to Melbourne for the Playbox Theatre Company to do Edgar in The Dance of Death then Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class, which also went to the Adelaide Festival. Long Day's Journey into Night for Playbox followed by Crimes of the Heart for the MTC. Woodworm and Insignificance for the Playbox – the latter touring to the Festival of Sydney and another appearance at the Opera House. To which he returned months later to play Harry Brock in Born Yesterday for the Sydney Theatre Company.

Over the next several years, Files continued to play leads and supports in theatre. Recent work starts with Shorts at the Wharf for the S.T.C. then Mickey in Hurley Burley for the M.T.C., Stalin in Master Class for the H.V.T.C., George Coppin in Occupation Comedian for the Writer's Theatre, Gerald in Woman in Mind for the M.T.C. then A Hard God for N.E.T.C. Oscar Wilde in Oscar Wilde at the Cafe Royale for the Melbourne International Festival, For Better For Worse for Chapel Off Chapel, Alive at Williamstown Pier at the Beckett Theatre, Mysteries for the Keene/Taylor Company, Go in Tight for La Mama, Father Smythe in the Australian musical Eureka at Her Majesty's Theatre, Dr Sweet in Bug for Red Stitch Theatre, Uncle Konrad in The Revisionist for Summers/Blackman and the Rev. Tooker in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for the M.T.C. He has toured Tasmania with the period instrument group Nuove Musiche Ensemble reading Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry and prose.

Film and television Files has appeared in several Australian films, Money Movers, The Club, Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark), Mull and Dead End. He has also appeared in the short films "Remembering Nigel", Vigilant Healthy! Wholesome", "Desperate" and "The Wardrobe" (which he also wrote). As well as voicing two animated features The Littlest Convict and Abra-Cadabra, he also manipulated and voiced the lead muppets Simon Smedley and Aunt Matilda in The Arcade Show and Smedley's Weekly two TV series for children for the ABC. He has recently played the lead in the Tasmanian Raw Nerve initiative short film "Love Train."

He has appeared in over 35 television series and features for Australian television, the most memorable being Desert Foxes, Corp. Andy Edwards in Rusty Bugles, Punishment, Fred Ferguson in Prisoner, Slasher Grey in The Great Bookie Robbery, Tom Ramsay in the soap Neighbours (in 1986, and again in 1990–91 and returned for a guest stint in the show's 30th year, 2015), Fred Daly in The True Believers, Frankie in Rafferty's Rules, Zeke La Russo in Inside Running, Sam McHeath in Skirts, Henry Barnes in Correlli, Kevin Howard in two series of Pig's Breakfast, Fergus Marshall in the TV series MDA, Wally Chubb in "City Homicide" and 'Doc' Evatt in "I Spry". He also played Raymon Radley in both of the animated TV series of Dogstar. Other animated TV series he has appeared in have been Quads and Ocean Girl.

Theatre director Files started directing in 1993 when he co-founded the Period Pieces Company in an effort to revive classical theatre in Melbourne as it should be experienced. This was a company of Melbourne actors who performed readings of the classics with a complete cast. He has directed There's One in Every Marriage, The Medieval Mystery Plays, A Flea in Her Ear, Trelawny of the "Wells", When We Are Married, Rookery Nook. The Devil is an Ass and the one-act opera Lo Sposo Deluso by Mozart, all for Period Pieces.

In 1998 Files was artistic director of Crossing the Line, doing performed readings of plays by screenwriters at the Melbourne Writer's Festival at the Malthouse. For that he directed Snoop and Gossamer. He also directed the play Allison's Rub for La Mama and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and has since directed Dorothy Parker Says for Michele Stayner at the Chapel Off Chapel.

Writer Files writing career continued in Australia. He wrote the four-part comedy serial Uncle Vinny's Wireless for ABC–Radio, for which he won an AWGIE Award from the Australian Writers' Guild. He has also written, co-produced and performed the comedy series Bruce Roxon The All Australian Time Traveller for ABC–Radio, and adapted Tomorrow's Child as a series for ABC–Radio Schools. In 1984, he adapted and read to air an adaptation of the science-fiction novel The Man in the Maze for 3LO.