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Peter Hosking (born 19 December 1947) is an Australian actor and audiobook narrator.
Education
Hosking graduated from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with a Diploma of Civil Engineering.
Career
Hosking started acting professionally at The Pram Factory in Melbourne in 1978.
In 1996, Hosking received TDK Australian Audio Book Award for Home Before Dark. The same year, he starred in an episode of Halifax f.p..
In 2002 he created Nu Country TV, a country music show on community tv station C31 Melbourne. He produced, filmed and edited this show for four years. The show is still running in 2017.
In 2010 he was interviewed by phone by Vision Australia regarding his 25 years of narrating audio books many of his narrations have been reviewed by Audiofile Magazine in the USA,
After 30 years in Australian theatre, film, tv and voice work, moved to Prague in Czech Republic where he works with the Cimrman English Theatre performing English language translations of the works of Jára Cimrman, a man voted the greatest Czech of all time.
In 2018, Hosking voiced the character Hanush of Leipa in the 2018 video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
Selected credits
Theatre
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Various titles | Various roles | The Pram Factory |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | The Sullivans | 2 roles | TV series |
| 1980 | Skyways | TV series | |
| 1980 | Gail | TV series | |
| 1980-83 | Cop Shop | 3 roles | TV series |
| 1981 | I Can Jump Puddles | TV miniseries | |
| 1981-82, 1985 | Prisoner | TV series | |
| 1981 | Come Midnight Monday | TV series | |
| 1982 | Home | TV series | |
| 1982 | Too Many People are Disappearing | ||
| 1982 | All the Rivers Run | ||
| 1983/85 | Carson’s Law | TV series | |
| 1983 | The Keepers | TV series | |
| 1983 | Waterfront | TV series | |
| 1985 | Anzacs | TV miniseries | |
| 1985 | Special Squad | TV series | |
| 1985 | Fame and Misfortune | TV series | |
| 1985 | The Great Bookie Robbery | TV miniseries | |
| 1985-87 | The Fast Lane | Detective Sergeant Blair | TV series |
| 1986 | Inbetween | TV series | |
| 1986 | Perry | TV series | |
| 1986 | Potato and the Cobald | TV series | |
| 1986 | The Henderson Kids | TV series | |
| 1987 | Rafferty’s Rules | TV series | |
| 1987 | Dusty | TV series | |
| 1988 | Complaints | TV pilot | |
| 1988 / 1990-91 | The Flying Doctors | TV series | |
| 1990 | Skirts | TV series | |
| 1990 | The Great Air Race (aka Half a World Away) | TV miniseries | |
| 1990 | Boys from the Bush | TV series | |
| 1990 | A Country Practice | TV series | |
| 1991 | Embassy | TV series | |
| 1991 | The Worst Day of My Life | TV series | |
| 1992 | To the End of the Galaxy and Turn Left | TV series | |
| 1992 | Bingles | TV series | |
| 1992 | Time Trax | TV series | |
| 1992 | Neighbours | TV series | |
| 1992 | The Late Show | TV series | |
| 1993 | Wedlocked | TV pilot | |
| 1993 | The Feds | TV pilot | |
| 1993 | The Flood | ||
| 1994-99 | Blue Heelers | Frank Davis | TV series, season 1 |
| 1995 | The Feds | TV miniseries | |
| 1996 | Halifax f.p. | Homicide Police Officer | TV series, S2, E3: "Sweet Dreams" |
| 1996 | Good Guys, Bad Guys | TV series | |
| 1997-98 | State Coroner | Phil Daly | TV series (including pilot) |
| 1999 | High Flyers | TV series | |
| 2000-02 | Stingers | TV series | |
| 2001 | Something in the Air | TV series | |
| 2001 | Ponderosa | TV series, episode: "Bare Knuckles" | |
| 2002-current | Nu Country TV | Music TV series (C31 Melbourne), 13 episodes (producer/director) | |
| 2003 | MDA | TV series | |
| 2005 | Last Man Standing | TV series | |
| 2007 | McLeod's Daughters | TV series | |
| 2007 | Bastard Boys | TV miniseries | |
| 2011-14 | Borgia | Cardinal Giovanni Battista Savelli | TV series, season 1-3 |
| 2012 | Homicide Franchise | ||
| 2013 | 1864 | TV miniseries | |
| 2013 | TAG | Children's TV series | |
| 2013 | Crossing Lines | TV series | |
| 2016-21 | Britannia | Rayme | TV series |
| 2016 | RAPL | TV series | |
| 2018 | Lore | TV series | |
| 2019 | The Hunting | TV miniseries | |
| 2021 | Dangerous Liaisons | TV series | |
| 2021 | Carnival Row | TV series | |
| 2021 | Hanna | TV series | |
| 2022 | The Seed | TV series |
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | The Pirate Movie | Feature film | |
| 1982 | Squizzy Taylor | Angus Murray | Feature film |
| 1984 | Copfile | Feature film | |
| 1985 | Malcolm | Feature film | |
| 1985 | Jenny Kissed Me | Feature film | |
| 1985 | Death of a Soldier | Feature film | |
| 1985 | The Local Rag | TV movie | |
| 1986 | With Love to the Person Next to Me | Feature film | |
| 1986 | Just Us | TV movie | |
| 1987 | A Matter of Convenience | TV movie | |
| 1987 | Compo | Feature film | |
| 1987 | Lover Boy | Short film | |
| 1987 | Evil Angels | Feature film | |
| 1989 | A Kink in the Picasso | Feature film | |
| 1989 | Frank | Short film (Swinburne F&TS) | |
| 1990 | Secrets | Short film (Swinburne F&TS) | |
| 1992 | Demi-God | Short film (Swinburne Film & TV School) | |
| 1992 | Concrete Nest | Short film (Swinburne Film & TV School) | |
| 1995 | Into Each Life | Short film (Swinburne Film & TV School) | |
| 1995 | River Street | Feature film | |
| 1996 | The Feds: Betrayal | Assistant Commissioner Roland Cloke | TV movie |
| 1996 | Deathbed of an Undertaker | Short film (VCA Film & TV School) | |
| 1998 | Pride | Feature film | |
| 1998 | Siam Sunset | Feature film | |
| 2000 | The Wog Boy | Bazza | Feature film |
| 2003 | Razor Eaters | Hurstleigh | Feature film |
| 2005 | Finctional | Short film | |
| 2005 | Einstein's Sister | Short film | |
| 2005 | Roughen | Short film | |
| 2005 | Trigger | Short film | |
| 2007 | Personality Plus | Feature film | |
| 2007 | Aardvark | Short film (Prague Film School) | |
| 2008 | Head to Love | Short film (Poland) | |
| 2008 | Sněženky a machři po 25 letech | Feature film (Czech) | |
| 2010 | An Application for Asylum in the Czech Republic on Ecological Grounds | Comic Documentary | |
| 2012 | The Last Knights | Feature film | |
| 2014 | Vice Admiral Tordenskiold... and Dog | Danish Feature film (Denmark) | |
| 2015 | Mr. Haslinger | Short film | |
| 2015 | The Shamer's Daughter | Feature film | |
| 2015 | Gangster Ka | Dr. Martier | Feature film |
| 2017 | The Ottoman Lieutenant | Feature film | |
| 2017 | Borg vs McEnroe | Swedish Feature film | |
| 2017 | The Catcher Was a Spy | Feature film | |
| 2019 | A Boy Called Christmas | Feature film | |
| 2021 | Army of Thieves | Policeman Joe | Feature film |
| 2022 | Extraction 2 | Feature film |
Music video
| Year | Title | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | You and Me | Bobby Sox | Music video clip (shot in Prague) |
Audio books
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Home Before Dark | Narrator | Audio book |
Video games
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Kingdom Come: Deliverance | Habush of Leipa (voice) | Video game |
References
- "Australian Theatre History. The Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory". The Pram Factory. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- "Link-up – December 1996". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- "Nu Country TV". C31 Melbourne. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- Hallett, Bryce (8 April 2002). "A Stretch of the Imagination, Downstairs Belvoir". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- "AudioFile, Discover the World of Audiobooks". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- "Radio Prague – English "stands in" for Czech in first translation of Cimrman classic". Radio Prague. 11 November 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- GEORGE, GABRIELLE. "Review: The Conquest of the North Pole | Art and Culture in Prague, Czech Republic | Prague Business Directory from Prague.TV". Prague TV. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- "PETER HOSKING - CV Page". www.peterhosking.com. Retrieved 13 March 2021.