David Ewen Gilmour (22 January 1963 – 3 October 2014), commonly known as Ewen Gilmour, was a New Zealand

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and

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. Usually sporting long brown hair with a goatee and wearing a jacket and jeans, he was a self-described Westie.

Comedy and television career

Gilmour began his comedy career in 1995, and shared the first

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with

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in 1997. He won the Decade Award – Best Male Comedian – 2000 to 2010 at the 2010 NZ Comedy Guild Awards. In 2012, he returned to the New Zealand International Comedy Festival "for the first time in a couple of years" with a one-hour show called "S'Truth". He made numerous appearances on

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, including

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(1995),

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– Peru (2003),

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(2003),

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series one (2005), and Comedy Christmas Cracker (2010). He was the host of the

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show "Road Madness", mainly about dangerous driving on New Zealand roads, which first aired in 2012.

Personal life

His wife Catherine Gilmour died on 19 February 2011 at age 36 after a long battle with cancer. Ewen Gilmour resigned from his position at Waitakere City Council in August 2007, after his wife's brain tumor was removed in 2006, so he could care for her. He was also a marriage and civil union celebrant. Gilmour died in his sleep at

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on 3 October 2014, aged 51.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gilmour, Ewan New Zealand male comedians New Zealand television presenters People from Auckland Waitakere City Councillors 2014 deaths 1963 births

Comedy and television career

Personal life

See also

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