Radio Golsby began his on-air career at 16 as an announcer on station 2MG in
Mudgee. Within two years he was the youngest announcer on Sydney radio station
2UE, at 18 years of age. In 1959 Golsby left his regular presenting spot and went on a world tour, travelling to Europe and the US for
2CH and interviewing jazz musicians such as
Nina Simone and
Count Basie. In 1976 he was a core cast member, with
Noeline Brown and
Ross Higgins, of radio
2BL's sketch comedy program
The Naked Vicar Show.
Voice-over work Golsby was the voice of newsreels for
Fox Movietone (Australia) (later Cinesound Movietone Productions) and between 1960 and 1976 narrated over one thousand news stories. In 1965 he introduced Australians to decimal currency as the voice of "Dollar Bill" in a series of television commercials (with frequent collaborator Ross Higgins as "Mr.Pound"). Most recently, in 2017, he was the voice of a "yes" campaign for the
Marriage Equality Plebiscite.
Television Throughout the 1970s, Golsby and voice-over colleague
Ross Higgins dominated Australian airwaves. While enjoying this success, his break-through role came in 1977 when
Noeline Brown, Golsby and Higgins were the hosts and key regular performers in popular sketch comedy series
Naked Vicar Show, which spanned radio, television and theatre. He played various characters in the series, which lasted two seasons. Between the sixties and the 2000s Golsby appeared in dozens of Australian television series, in both comedic and dramatic roles. He was often cast as a police officer.
Theatre Golsby performed in several stage productions during the seventies and eighties including theatre runs of
the Naked Vicar Show in Sydney and Melbourne,
Flexitime at the Phillip St Theatre and, in 2011, The Jetty, at Merrigong Theatre Wollongong.
Film Golsby appeared in several feature films, including
The Cars That Ate Paris,
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon and
The Final Winter. == Personal life ==