Peter John Carroll (born 1944) is an Australian actor and the father of actress

Tamsin Carroll Tamsin Georgina Carroll (born 13 February 1979) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her performances in musical theatre in Australia and the United Kingdom. Personal life Carroll was born and raised in Sydney. Her parents are Au ...

Early life and education

Peter Carroll was born in

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in 1944. In his youth, Carroll was a boy soprano and won five awards in the City of Sydney Eisteddfodd in 1963. Carroll attended the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...

, where he earned a

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

, and the University of New South Wales, where he earned a Master of Arts with Honours.Richard McGregor. (19 March 1982.
"Carrol fascinated by challenge of ''Suicide''"
''The Sydney Morning Herald''. While undertaking his education at the University of Sydney, he commenced amateur acting; after graduating, he worked as a drama teacher for two years. Carroll later attended the Central School of London. In 2003, Carroll received an honorary Doctorate of Creative Awards from the

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Honours

Member of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Gove ...

for "significant service to the performing arts as an actor" in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Awards

Theatre

Sydney Theatre Company Sydney Theatre Company (STC) is an Australian theatre company based in Sydney, New South Wales. The company performs in The Wharf Theatre at Dawes Point in The Rocks area of Sydney, as well as the Roslyn Packer Theatre (formerly Sydney Thea ...

: ''

The Crucible ''The Crucible'' is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as a ...

'', ''The War of the Roses'', ''Gallipoli'', ''Serpents Teeth'', ''

A Midsummer Night's Dream ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict amon ...

'', ''

The Season at Sarsaparilla ''The Season at Sarsaparilla: a charade of suburbia in 2 acts'' is a 1962 play by Australian writer Patrick White. It concerns three households, the Pogsons, the Boyles, and the Knotts, in the fictional suburb of Sarsaparilla. This play was wri ...

'', ''The Art of War'', ''The Bourgeois Gentleman'', ''The Lost Echo'', ''Mother Courage'', ''Victory'', ''The Cherry Orchard'', ''Harbour'', ''

The Republic of Myopia ''The Republic of Myopia'' is an Australian musical with book and lyrics by Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott and music by Phillip Scott. The comedic musical is set in 1904 in the fictional central European republic of Myopia. ...

'', ''Thyestes'', '' The Tempest'' * Company B: ''

Hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

'', ''

The Blind Giant is Dancing ''The Blind Giant is Dancing'' is a play by Australian playwright Stephen Sewell. It received the 1985 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award. Plot A passionate examination of the way political power can corrupt the individual and society at ...

'', ''The Tempest'', ''

The Chairs ''The Chairs'' (french: Les Chaises) is a one-act play by Eugène Ionesco, described as an absurdist "tragic farce". It was first performed in Paris in 1952. Setting A high tower surrounded by water. Characters *Old Man, aged 95 *Old Woman, age ...

'', ''Stuff Happens'' * Musical theatre including ''Evita'', ''Sweeney Todd'', '' Les Miserables'', ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', ''

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'' (often colloquially known as ''Joseph'') is a sung-through musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the character of Joseph from the Bible's Book of Genesis. Th ...

'', ''

The Threepenny Opera ''The Threepenny Opera'' ( ) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, ''The Beggar's Opera'', and four ballads by François Villon, with music ...

'', ''Cats'', ''Crazy for You'', ''Man of La Mancha'', ''

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'', ''

Into the Woods ''Into the Woods'' is a 1987 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tale A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story ...

'', '' Summer Rain'', ''

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' is a 1968 musical-fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes with a screenplay co-written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, loosely based on Ian Fleming's novel '' Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car'' (1964). The film stars ...

''.

Filmography

Movies

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The Last Wave ''The Last Wave'' (also released, in the US, as ''Black Rain'') is a 1977 Australian Mystery film, mystery Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Peter Weir.''Variety Film Reviews, Variety'' film review; 16 November 1977, p. 21. It ...

'' (1977) – Michael Zeadler *''

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith ''The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith'' is a 1972 Booker Prize-nominated Australian novel by Thomas Keneally, and a 1978 Australian film of the same name directed by Fred Schepisi. The novel is based on the life of bushranger Jimmy Governor, the su ...

'' (1978) – McCready *''

Newsfront ''Newsfront'' is a 1978 Australian drama film starring Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Chris Haywood and Bryan Brown, directed by Phillip Noyce. The screenplay is written by David Elfick, Bob Ellis, Philippe Mora, and Phillip Noyce. The original mus ...

'' (1978) – Newsco scriptwriter *'' The More Things Change...'' (1986) – Roley *''

Fatty Finn ''Fatty Finn'' was a popular long-run Australian comic strip series, created in 1923 by Syd Nicholls. It ran in syndication until the creator's death in 1977. History In 1923 Syd Nicholls, a senior artist at Sydney's ''Evening News'', was aske ...

'' (1980) – Teacher *''

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'' (1980) *''

Waking Ned ''Waking Ned'' (titled ''Waking Ned Devine'' in North America) is a 1998 comedy film written and directed by Kirk Jones and starring Ian Bannen, David Kelly, and Fionnula Flanagan. Kelly was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his r ...

'' (1998) – Villager of Tullymore *'' A Wreck, a Tangle'' (2000) – Science Voice Over *''Sunday'' (2000) – Herb *''

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'' (2001) – Viscount Simonds *''

Happy Feet ''Happy Feet'' is a 2006 computer-animated jukebox musical comedy film directed, produced, and co-written by George Miller. It stars the voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, and E.G ...

'' (2006) – Elder *''

Sleeping Beauty ''Sleeping Beauty'' (french: La belle au bois dormant, or ''The Beauty in the Sleeping Forest''; german: Dornröschen, or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess cu ...

'' (2011) – Man 1 *''

Crazy Rich Asians ''Crazy Rich Asians'' is a satirical 2013 romantic comedy novel by Kevin Kwan. Kwan stated that his intention in writing the novel was to "introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience". He claimed the novel was loosely based on h ...

'' (2018) - Lord Calthorpe *'' The Power of the Dog'' (2021) - Old Gent

Television

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'' (1978) – Tom *''

The John Sullivan Story ''The Sullivans'' is an Australian period drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 15 November 1976 until 10 March 1983. The series tells the story of a fictional average middle-clas ...

'' (1979) – Commissioner Petrovic *''

Ride on Stranger ''Ride on Stranger'' is a 1979 Australian mini series about a woman in the 1930s, based on the novel of the same name by Australian author Kylie Tennant.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995'', Oxford University Press, 1 ...

'' (1979) – Mervyn Leggatt *''

A Country Practice ''A Country Practice'' is an Australian television soap opera which broadcast on the Seven Network from 18 November 1981 until 5 November 1993, airing at 7:30 pm on Monday and Tuesday evenings. Altogether, 14 seasons and 1,058 episodes were p ...

'' (1982–1992) – Mr. Brown/Stewart Innes *''

Five Mile Creek ''Five Mile Creek'' is a western television drama series adapted from Louis L'Amour's novel ''The Cherokee Trail'' and produced in Australia. It starred Liz Burch, Louise Caire Clark, Rod Mullinar, Jay Kerr, Michael Caton, Peter Carroll, Gu ...

'' (1983) – Charles Withers *'' A Descant for Gossips'' (1983) – Robert Moller *''

Who Killed Baby Azaria? ''The Disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain'' is a 1983 Australian television docufilm about the Azaria Chamberlain case.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 45 Michael Thornhill later said that ...

'' (1983) – Mr. Phillips QC *'' The Dismissal'' (1983) – Narrator/Liberal MP *'' Melba'' (1987) – David Mitchell *''

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'' (1987) – Dr. Daniel Solander *'' Custody'' (1988) – Narrator *''

The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy ''The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy'' is a 1988 Australian-New Zealand mini series based on the Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford University Press, 1996 p225 It was written by David ...

'' (1989) *''

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'' (1989) – Gotham *'' Water Rats'' (1996) – Joseph Craig *''

Doom Runners ''Doom Runners'' (1997) is an Australian science fiction television children's film. Premise The story concerns a group of children in a post-apocalyptic world searching for the last unpolluted place on Earth, New Eden. However, the Doom Troope ...

'' (1997) – William *''

Tales of the South Seas ''Tales of the South Seas'' is a 1998 Australian TV series''Tales of the South Seas''
at Au ...

'' (2000) – Gahv *'' The Farm'' (2001) – Fenwick *''

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'' (2001) – Dr. Hurrell *'' Corridors of Power'' (2001) – Voice in Toilet *''

The Diamond of Jeru ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

'' (2001) – Clifton Vandover *''

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'' (2000–2003) – Rev. Peter Summerhaze

Other

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Crocodile Dundee ''Crocodile Dundee'' (stylized as ''"Crocodile" Dundee'' in the U.S.) is a 1986 action comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee, and American actress Linda Kozlowski as ...

'' (1986) – Dialogue Coach

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carroll, Peter 1944 births Living people Members of the Order of Australia Australian male film actors Australian male television actors Helpmann Award winners Male actors from Sydney