Bruce Gyngell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bruce Gyngell

Australian television executive

Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1929

Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Date of Death: 07-Sep-2000

Profession: disc jockey, pyrotechnician

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Bruce Gyngell AO (8 July 1929 – 7 September 2000) was an influential Australian television executive, prominent for 50 years in both Australian and UK television.
Although Gyngell began his career in radio, in the 1950s he stepped into the arena of early television broadcasting, helping to set up Channel 9, the first commercial TV station in Australia.
He is credited with introducing the sofa format of breakfast television and in later life, for expressing his attraction to eastern ideas which ranged through Zen Buddhism, meditation and Insight philosophy.