David Alexander McPhail ONZM QSM (11 April 1945 – 14 May 2021) was a New Zealand comedic actor and writer whose television career spanned four decades. McPhail first won fame on sketch comedy show A Week of It, partly thanks to his impressions of New Zealand prime minister Robert Muldoon. He went on to appear in multiple series of sketch show , and hit comedy Letter to Blanchy. All three shows featured his longtime friend Jon Gadsby.