Actor gardner mckay biography
Actor gardner mckay biography
Gardner mckay children!
A man with originality, a sportsman, an artist and an intellectual...
George Cadogan Gardney McKay was born in New-York (United States) on the 10th of june 1932 (photo left at 5 years old).
Gardner came from a wealthy Episcopalian family.
He was the second son, after Hugh the eldest, of Catherine and Hugh Dean McKay, who was an executive in a publicity firm. He was credited for the famous Lux toilet soap slogan "for that schoolgirl complexion".(photo right: Gardner's birthday party - age 3 - picture taken at their NYC apartment with Grandmother "Dear").
Gardner was said to be the grand-son of Donald McKay, a famous shipbuilder of Boston, who built over 70 clippers and schooners between 1841 and 1875.
In 1936, Gardner's father's company appointed him in Paris.
That 's how in june, the whole McKay family boarded the "M/S Bremen" and left New-York for Europe , first of Gardner's many crossings, as between the age of 4 and 17, the young &qu