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Name
  
Peter Whitford


Role
  
Theatre actor


Education
  
National Institute of Dramatic Art

Movies and TV shows
  
Strictly Ballroom, Dead End Drive‑In, Careful - He Might Hear You, My Brilliant Career, The Henderson Kids

Similar People
  
Brian Trenchard‑Smith, Gillian Armstrong, Baz Luhrmann, Andy Tennant, Bob Ellis

Peter Whitford (born 1939) is an Australian radio, theatre, television and film character actor. Known for numerous roles particularly as wealthy businessmen and members of the aristocracy.

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Peter Whitford was born in Adelaide. He graduated from NIDA in 1963. In his early career, he played Jack Parker in the long-running radio serial Blue Hills.

Film roles

His film credits include:

  • My Brilliant Career (1979)
  • Phar Lap (1983)
  • Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)
  • The Last Bastion (1984; as H. V. Evatt)
  • Dead End Drive-In (1986)
  • Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1988)
  • Come In Spinner (1990)
  • Strictly Ballroom (1992)
  • Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
  • Passion (1999)
  • Moulin Rouge! (2001)
  • The Man Who Sued God (2001).

    • Television roles

    On television, he has appeared in such series as:

  • The Restless Years (1977)
  • Bodyline (1984)
  • A Country Practice (1982–84)
  • The Henderson Kids (1985)
  • Number 96 (1976)
  • Home and Away (1989, 1994–95)
  • Bullpitt! (1997–98)
  • All Saints (1999-2009)

    • References

    Peter Whitford Wikipedia
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