Peter Carmody

Peter Carmody

Born: January 1, 1938
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Peter Carmody is an Australian actor, director and writer.

Carmody left NIDA at the end of 1981 to freelance as an actor/director and writer. Since then he has appeared in countless stage plays.

For TV series, Carmody has worked on Water Rats, All Saints, Wildside, A country Practice, Home and Away, E Street, and Sons and Daughters and also appeared for films including Bliss (1985), Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1987), Brake Fluid (1970).

Movies for Peter Carmody...

Title: Cops L.A.C.
Character: Ernie
Released: September 2, 2010
Type: TV
Cops L.A.C. is a 2010 Australian television police drama, which screened on the Nine Network. The series followed the work of officers at the Seaview Local Area Command, a fictitious police response area of the 'State Police' set in harbourside Sydney, New South Wales. The first series premiered on 2 September 2010, in the same timeslot of Network Ten's police drama Rush. On 22 November 2010, the Nine Network cancelled the show due to the high production costs.
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Twisted
Title: Twisted
Character: Chauffeur (segment 'Bonus Mileage')
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Four unsuspecting victims find themselves beyond "The Twilight Zone" in a twisted and altered reality: an airline passenger thinks he's lost his identity... a bored housewife thinks she's found romance... a conman thinks he's made his mark... and a hired killer thinks she's ready to retire. Unfortunately for all of them, they soon discover that there's nothing like reality to get in the way of an otherwise perfectly twisted perspective. Things are never quite that simple.
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Title: Police Rescue
Character: Ambo Officer
Released: February 14, 1991
Type: TV
Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes.
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Title: E Street
Character: The General
Released: January 24, 1989
Type: TV
An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.
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Title: E Street
Character: Morri Wilks
Released: January 24, 1989
Type: TV
An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.
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Title: Rafferty's Rules
Character: Wilkins
Released: February 12, 1987
Type: TV
Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network. Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit, going into production in May 1985 as "a 15-part courtroom drama". The program had started out as a pilot episode, recorded in early 1984 with the actor Chris Haywood in the lead role. When the pilot episode was remounted later in 1984, Chris Haywood wasn't available and the lead role was re-cast to John Wood. This second recording was eventually broadcast as the program's first episode.
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The Trespassers
Title: The Trespassers
Character: Ted
Released: August 18, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1970, political journalist Richard lives with Penny but is having an affair with actress Dee. The two woman meet and become friends.
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The Firm Man
Title: The Firm Man
Character: Barry
Released: April 9, 1975
Type: Movie
Businessman Gerald Barker is invited to join a mysterious super corporation known as The Firm. His work in the organisation turns out to be of a unique and somewhat disturbing nature. But Gerald finds no comfort with his wife Melissa and friend Barry - his relationships with both collapse. In a surreal and strange fashion, Gerald eventually comes to understand what The Firm is about. Made on a tiny budget of $15,000 the film is a mix of naturalism and stylisation which the filmmaker hoped would work on 'a simple, surrealistic level'.
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Yackety Yack
Title: Yackety Yack
Character: Zig
Released: October 9, 1974
Type: Movie
A classic Australian underground comedy in which a group of people fight over how to make the truly collective/revolutionary/existential movie. Original intentions get sidetracked but all attempts to set things straight result in yet another, but strangely similar, script. Cast includes: John Flaus, Peggy Cole.
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Brake Fluid
Title: Brake Fluid
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
This self-funded verité comedy starring John Duigan is something of a swan song for the “Carlton ripple” and reflects the movement’s characteristic vacillation between intensely local and distantly international influences.
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Dead Easy
Title: Dead Easy
Released: June 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A student of criminology is completing a thesis on Melbourne mass murderers. With the aid of a German professor he visits the scenes of the crimes of Frederick Deeming, Norman List, Arnold Sodeman and Edward Leonski and reconstructs them.
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Hey Al, Baby
Title: Hey Al, Baby
Released: April 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Life inside a late 1960s Carlton student share house plays out across six alternately comedic and melancholy real-time vignettes. When his friend takes a trip, cinephile Al is left alone for the weekend with three female housemates, a situation that only serves to exacerbate his social awkwardness. One of the most distinctive works to emerge from the ‘Carlton ripple’, David Minter’s 1969 slice-of-life comedy carries echoes of Éric Rohmer’s moral tales.