Peter Curtin

Acting

Peter Curtin

Born 1944-01-31 · Australia

Peter Julian Curtin (31 January 1944 – 19 May 2014) was an Australian television and stage actor, whose career began when he joined the Melbourne Theatre Company, appearing in The Plough and the Stars.

Acting credits

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid poster
5.5

A scientific expedition sets out for Borneo to seek a flower called the Blood Orchid, which could grant extended life. Meanwhile, they run afoul of snakes and each other.

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

2004

Darkness Falls poster
5.6

A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.

Darkness Falls

2003

Official Denial poster
6.0

A UFO abductee joins a secret government agency in order to communicate with the sole surviving alien of a downed spacecraft.

Official Denial

1993

In Pursuit of Honor poster
5.8

To save a group of horses slated to be destroyed by the US Cavalry, a group of officers rebel and begin a journey towards Canada to save themselves and the mounts.

In Pursuit of Honor

1995

Till Human Voices Wake Us poster
5.3

Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on their backs in a lake, Sylvy disappears from his side. Despite his best efforts, he cannot find her under water. Many years later, Sam, now a psychologist, returns to bury his father. Back in his hometown, he meets a woman called Ruby who reminds him in so many ways of his lost love.

Till Human Voices Wake Us

2002

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NR

Four friends grapple with aging and the march of time in this opera based on Ray Lawler's iconic Australian play. For years, cane cutters Roo and Barney (Gary Rowley and Barry Ryan) have bunked with barmaids Olive (Gillian Sullivan) and Nancy in the summer. But Nancy's moved on, replaced by newcomer Pearl (Elizabeth Campbell). Vacation's no longer the unending party it once was as each member of the quartet arrives at a new understanding of life.

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

1979