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Neil Pigot (born 28 December 1961) is an Australian actor who is perhaps best known in
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for his role as Inspector Falcon Price in the highly successful television series ''
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''. Pigot has appeared in over 100 episodes of television, a number of feature films and has presented several documentaries on his pet subject Australian military history. A highly regarded and award-winning stage actor, he is also the author of several works of
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.


Early life

Pigot began life in
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, the eldest son of a butcher turned commercial pilot and his wife who would become one of Australia's pioneering female car sales people. At age 8, his family moved to Darwin and then South East Asia. He completed his schooling in
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. Pigot has claimed he was always interested in the Arts but for the first two years after finishing high school he drifted between jobs as a sales clerk, freight clerk, sales canvasser and finally as the manager of a flying school before "falling into acting" at the age of 20.


Career

Pigot began work with the semi professional Lieder Southern Regional Theatre in Goulburn NSW in the early 1980s first appearing as Meriman the butler in
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's ''
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''. He then worked in community theatre and on drama programmes with long term institutionalised adults at Kenmore Psychiatric Hospital before joining Theatre ACT in 1984. After a time as a contract actor in Canberra he established the Black Inc theatre company with Paul Corcoran, Tim Ferguson and Ian Hagan and The Katt Klub, a late night cabaret where he performed with many artists including the
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. His work in theatre has continued and he has played leading roles for all of Australia's major companies including the
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and Sydney Theatre Companies, Belvoir, Playbox/
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and
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and also leading independent companies Brink, Back to Back and Kickhouse most often appearing in new works. Pigot's television credits include leading guest roles in over twenty television series and several telemovies beginning with ''GP'' in the 1980s up until recent appearances in ''
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'' for
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. Notable series include ''
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'', '' The Games'', ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Laid'', ''Marshal Law'', ''
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'', '' Stingers'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. For nine years he performed the role of Inspector Falcon Price on the drama series ''
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'' for which he is best known. Australian films Pigot has been featured in include '' Head On'', '' Lucky Country'', ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Red Dog'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. Pigot is also a documentary writer and presenter who specialises in Australian military history and has fronted 2 series and three stand alone feature documentaries for Fox History on the subject. In 1994, he completed his first work of non-fiction ''The Changi Diary''. He also recorded an album ''The Changi Songbook'', a compilation of original songs written by an Australian
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in a Changi POW Camp with the remaining members of the Changi Concert Party in that same year. A live album of the songs, recorded during two concerts at the
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in 2013, is to be released in the future.


Personal life

Pigot lived and worked in many Australian cities and in the UK before returning to the place of his birth in 1995. In 2001 he married his longtime partner Rachel Mackie, an academic. He has a step daughter, Keone Dodd. The couple divorced in 2016. He is lifelong collector of stamps and contemporary Australian Art and is an avid cook and gardener which has led to active involvement with both the Slow Food Movement and Gardening Australia.


Filmography


Film


Television


External links

* * https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/pigot-returns-in-fine-voice-20030505-gdvngm.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Pigot, Neil 1961 births Living people Australian male television actors Male actors from Melbourne