Paul Carpenter
Born(1921-12-08)8 December 1921
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died12 June 1964(1964-06-12) (aged 42)
Vaudeville Theatre, London, England
Years active1946–1964
Spouse(s)Pauline Black, Kim Parker

Paul Carpenter (8 December 1921 – 12 June 1964) was a Canadian actor and singer.[1]

Life and career

Carpenter originally attended medical school in Montreal, but left aged 17 to join the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a war correspondent.[2] He also played professional hockey in Canada.[3]

He moved to Britain and sang with Ted Heath and His Music in the 1940s and starred in the BBC Radio serial Riders of the Range (1949–1953) as the cowboy Jeff Arnold, where he shared the billing with his dog, Rustler (played by Percy Edwards).[4]

As a movie actor he "made over three dozen British films in the post-war decades, most of them 'B' pictures, such as Diplomatic Passport (1954) and One Jump Ahead (1955), to which he brought an easy, likeable authority that seemed more difficult for British actors to achieve". His final (uncredited) film appearance was in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger where he played an American General escorting James Bond.[5]

During 1955-1956, he starred in his only television programme, Sailor of Fortune with Lorne Greene.

Death

During rehearsals for the play The First Fish by Frank Tarloff at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, with a cast that included Moira Lister, Louie Ramsay and Ray Barrett, Carpenter arrived at the theatre and asked to be helped to a dressing room as he felt unwell. The director, Charles Ross, and the other actors were unaware he was at the theatre. He was found dead alone in the dressing room three hours later. He had recently recovered from injuries suffered in a car accident.[2][3]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ↑ "Paul Carpenter". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Paul Carpenter, actor, Dies Before Rehearsal in London". The New York Times. 13 June 1964.
  3. 1 2 "Paul Carpenter – Actor". northernstars.ca. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Charles Chilton". The Daily Telegraph. 3 January 2013.
  5. ↑ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film (softcover) (1st ed.). London & Basingstoke: BFI/Palgrave Macmillan. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-84457-319-6.
  6. ↑ "Murder Reported". BFI.org.uk. British Film Institute. 1957. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
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