Gary Cogill is an award-winning film critic for WFAA-TV. He is a three-time Katie Award winner and has worked in the Channel 8 news department for more than 16 years. Gary is also a consistent contributor to Good Morning Texas as well as Texas Cable News.

Gary has been interviewing actors, writers and directors since the mid-1980s and is a nationally recognized film critic. "When you sit in a room with Robin Williams, you better be ready," Gary said. "He always makes fun of what I wear, and if you push the right button, he'll fly around the room."

"I have seen Steve McQueen drive backward in The Blob, more than 50 times, and I sat through Lawrence Of Arabia by myself four nights in a row as a 10-year-old. That should tell you a lot about me," Gary said.

In 1996, Gary co-hosted a popular morning TV show in Seattle called 7 Live. "I was lucky enough to fly with The Blue Angels and not throw up. I also appeared on stage with Stacy Keach in An Inspector Calls," Gary said. "Don't get excited, I was an extra."

Gary is also a nationally recognized radio personality. In 1997, he co-hosted the popular syndicated morning radio show Daybreak USA, heard in more than 200 markets in the United States and Canada.

During the 1990s, Gary was heard on a daily basis on the nationally syndicated radio show USA Overnight.

Gary spent two years hosting his own live radio call-in talk show on 570 KLIF,Talk Radio in Dallas, discussing everything from politics to religion to movies. On Wednesday nights, his "Story Time" on KLIF became a North Texas favorite as Gary would read stories to children while their parents tucked them into bed.

Gary is also a popular voice actor, providing hundreds of voices for radio and TV commercials. His clients have included McDonalds, Coca-Cola and American Airlines. "I do a mean Kermit The Frog," Gary said.

Gary's film column appeared for two years in The Fort Worth Press, and he was a feature writer and columnist for Best Choice video magazine, with a monthly circulation of 250,000.

During the 1980s, Gary wrote, produced and directed hundreds of TV commercials while writing advertising copy, short films and documentaries.

Gary was born in Portland a child of the 1950s and 1960s, and he continues to be a lover of all things outdoors. He is a devoted trout fisherman, a White Rock lake jogger, a theatergoers, concertgoer, and is passionate about cooking and baseball.

"I even read attendance figures every day, and when I cook Italian food, I play the soundtrack to Big Night as loud as I can," Gary said.

His love for life and film is only surpassed by his love for his two daughters.