He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, and is well known for the CODCO television series and his impersonations of Barbara Frum, Jean Chrétien, and Queen Elizabeth II.
He wrote and performed in 43 Wonderful Grand Band shows for the CBC, and appeared on many other shows.
He participated in the campaign that stopped the privatization of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro, and has championed other environmental causes, including garbage to Newfoundland. After the death of his CODCO co-star Tommy Sexton in 1993, he devoted some years of his life to raising awareness of HIV and AIDS.
GregMalone was born in St. John's and educated at St. George's School, St. Bonaventure's College, Gonzaga High School and Memorial University, where he graduated with a BA in English.
GregMalone is an actor much alert to the world about him: as a young student attempting to use the vernacular cadences of Eliot to create his own poetry, later working with the vernacular dissonances of St. John's to make his own plays.
Chancellor, GregMalone is a man who understands the role of art and artifice in our lives — and how deep their foundations must be if they are not to be mere forms, habits of the idle and the thoughtless.
Budgell is, of course the manipulative, duplicitous recurring character portrayed by GregMalone on 'Codco', CBC's ground breaking television series which debuted on the People's Network in 1986.
A quarter century after Malone's Toronto debut and the same destructive social stereotypes that motivated him to help form Codco, have propelled him onto the national stage as a candidate for the federal New Democrats.
Malone's stature helped gain public attention to the cause, which was ultimately successful in preventing the sell-off of Newfoundland's hydro utility to the private sector.
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