Neil Pigot

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Neil Pigot
Born	Neil Pigot (1967-12-28) 28 December 1967 (age 57)
Occupation	Actor
Known for	Blue Heelers
Spouse(s)	Rachel Mackie (b. 2001 – div. 2016)

Neil Pigot (born 28 December 1961) is an Australian actor who is perhaps best known in Australia for his role as Inspector Falcon Price in the highly successful television series Blue Heelers . Pigot has appeared in over 100 episodes of television, a number of feature films and has presented several documentaries on his pet subject Australian military history. A highly regarded and award-winning stage actor, he is also the author of several works of non-fiction.

Early life

Pigot began life in Melbourne, the eldest son of a butcher turned commercial pilot and his wife who would become one of Australia's pioneering female car sales people. At age 8, his family moved to Darwin and then South East Asia. He completed his schooling in Sydney. Pigot has claimed he was always interested in the Arts but for the first two years after finishing high school he drifted between jobs as a sales clerk, freight clerk, sales canvasser and finally as the manager of a flying school before "falling into acting" at the age of 20.

Career

Pigot began work with the semi professional Lieder Southern Regional Theatre in Goulburn, NSW in the early 1980s first appearing as Meriman the butler in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest . He then worked in community theatre and on drama programmes with long term institutionalised adults at Kenmore Psychiatric Hospital before joining Theatre ACT in 1984. After a time as a contract actor in Canberra he established the Black Inc theatre company with Paul Corcoran, Tim Ferguson and Ian Hagan and The Katt Klub, a late night cabaret where he performed with many artists including the Doug Anthony Allstars. His work in theatre has continued and he has played leading roles for all of Australia's major companies including the Melbourne and Sydney Theatre Companies, Belvoir, Playbox/Malthouse, Queensland Theatre Company and State Theatre Company of South Australia and also leading independent companies Brink, Back to Back and Kickhouse most often appearing in new works.

Pigot's television credits include leading guest roles in over twenty television series and several telemovies beginning with G.P. in the 1980s up until recent appearances in The Kettering Incident for Foxtel. Notable series include The Man from Snowy River , The Games , The Adventures of Lano and Woodley , The Secret Life of Us , Laid , Marshall Law , Wicked Science , Stingers , Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries , Neighbours , Society Murders and The Doctor Blake Mysteries . For nine years he performed the role of Inspector Falcon Price on the drama series Blue Heelers for which he is best known.

Australian films Pigot has been featured in include Head On , Lucky Country , The Condemned , Stepsister from Planet Weird , Red Dog , The Dish , Oranges and Sunshine and Blessed .

Pigot is also a documentary writer and presenter who specialises in Australian military history and has fronted 2 series and three stand-alone feature documentaries for Fox History on the subject.

In 1994, he completed his first work of non-fiction The Changi Diary. He also recorded an album The Changi Songbook, a compilation of original songs written by an Australian POW in a Changi POW Camp with the remaining members of the Changi Concert Party in that same year. A live album of the songs, recorded during two concerts at the Melbourne Recital Centre in 2013, is to be released in the future.

Personal life

Pigot lived and worked in many Australian cities and in the UK before returning to the place of his birth in 1995. In 2001 he married his longtime partner Rachel Mackie, an academic. He has a step daughter, Keone Dodd. The couple divorced in 2016. He is a lifelong collector of stamps and contemporary Australian Art and is an avid cook and gardener which has led to active involvement with both the Slow Food Movement and Gardening Australia.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Head On	Senior Constable
1999	Redball	Bingo Wright
2000	The Dish	Journo
2001	Like It Is	Narrator	Short film
2007	The Condemned	Wade
2009	Blessed	Sergeant Kerrick
	Dark Frontier	Carver
2010	Oranges and Sunshine	James
2011	Red Dog	Vet
2017	Pillars	Richard	Short film
2017	Mrs McCutcheon	Parncut	Short film
2017	Australia Day	Michael Bester
2020	Strangers to the World	Bishop
2021	Some Happy Day	Radio Announcer
2022	Slant	Martin
TBA	Stringybark	John Kelly

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Home and Away	Electrician	1 episode
1991	The Girl From Tomorrow	Cameraman
1994	G.P.	Dave	1 episode
1996	Snowy River: The Mcgregor Saga	Ambrose Wylie	1 episode
1997	State Coroner	Senior Constable	1 episode
	The Last of the Ryans	Speed	TV movie
1997–1999	The Adventures of Lano and Woodley	Sgt Pearce	3 episodes
1997–2006	Blue Heelers [1]	Russell Falcon-Price	42 episodes
1998	The Games	David Pigot	1 episode
2000	Stepsister from Planet Weird	Fred Larson	TV movie
2001	The Secret Life of Us	Mad Dog Martin	2 episodes
2002	Marshall Law	Brett	1 episode
2003	Stingers	Barry Hunter	1 episode
2005	Wicked Science	Earl	1 episode
2006	The Society Murders	DS Steve Waddell	TV movie
2007	Neighbours	Christian Johnson	7 episodes
2009	For Valour [2]	Narrator	Documentary
	Rush	Eddie	1 episode
2011	The Digger [3]	Narrator	Documentary
2012	Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries	Ted Coglan	1 episode
	Laid	Hilary	1 episode
2013	Breaker Morant [4]	Narrator	Documentary
2013–2016	The Doctor Blake Mysteries	Derek Alderton	5 episodes
2016	Secret City	Brian Huxley	3 episodes
	The Kettering Incident [5] [6] [7]	Dominic Harrold	8 episodes
2018	Back In Very Small Business	Radio Talkback Host	1 episode
2021	Total Control	Stephen	1 episode

Theatre

As actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
Early 1980s	The Importance of Being Earnest	Meriman the Butler	Lieder Southern Regional Theatre, Goulburn
1985	Picnic on the Battlefield / Orison / Fando and Lis		Gorman House, Canberra with Australian Theatre Workshop
1985	Two Gentlemen of Verona / The Private Ear		Gorman House, Canberra with Black Inc
1985	No. 3		Rehearsal Room, Civic Square, Canberra with Red Square Theatre
1985	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat		ANU, Canberra with Black Inc
1986	The Lover		Rehearsal Room, Civic Square, Canberra with Black Inc
1986	Bedroom Farce		Playhouse, Canberra with Canberra Comedy Theatre Co.
1986	Ubu Roi		Australian National Gallery Theatre, Canberra
1988	Naked		Childers Street Theatre, Canberra with Black Inc
1992–1993; 1995	A Bright and Crimson Flower		Princes Wharf, Hobart, Launceston Showgrounds Motor Pavilion, HMAS Lonsdale, Melbourne, Echuca, Hamilton, Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide, Bendigo, Mt Nelson Theatre, Hobart with Zootango Theatre Company
1993	As You Like It	Duke Frederick / Silvius / Forrester	Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Hobart with Zootango Theatre Company
1995	The Ship That Never Was		Polly Woodside, Melbourne with Round Earth Theatre Company
1996	Travesties		Melbourne Athenaeum with Black Inc
1996	Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know		Melbourne Athenaeum with Black Inc
1996	The Truth Game		Carlton Courthouse with Missing Link Productions
1997	Ned Kelly		Theatre Works, Melbourne with Kickhouse Theatre
1998	Judgement	Captain Vukhov	Carlton Courthouse, Melbourne
1999	The Boneyard		La Mama, Melbourne
1999	Fred	Barry / Egyptian Man	Fairfax Studio, Melbourne with MTC
2001	Crave		Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney
2002	Uncle Bob		Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne
2002	The Fortunes of Richard Mahony	Richard Mahony	Brisbane Powerhouse, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne with Playbox Theatre Company & QTC
2002	Rapture	Tom	Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne with Playbox Theatre Company
2003	Breath By Breath		Carlton Courthouse, Melbourne with La Mama
2003	The Country		Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney
2004	Traitors		Carlton Courthouse, Melbourne with La Mama
2004	Dinner		Fairfax Studio, Melbourne with MTC
2005	Weary - the Story of Sir Edward Dunlop	Weary Dunlop	Playhouse, Canberra, Princess Theatre, Launceston, Theatre Royal, Hobart, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide, Melbourne Athenaeum, Regal Theatre, Perth, Theatre Royal Sydney with McPherson Touring
2005	Oleanna		The Butter Factory Theatre, Wodonga with HotHouse Theatre
2006	A Single Act	Neil	Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne with MTC
2007	Heaven		Trades Hall, Melbourne with theatre@risk
2007	Evidence		Trades Hall, Melbourne with theatre@risk
2007	Hamlyn		Trades Hall, Melbourne with theatre@risk
2007	Black Box 149		Trades Hall, Melbourne with theatre@risk
2007; 2008	Thom Pain (Based on Nothing)	Thom Pain	Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Street 2, Acton, Canberra with MTC
2008–2010	When the Rain Stops Falling	Gabriel York	Scott Theatre, Adelaide, Sydney Opera House, Southbank Theatre, Melbourne, Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, Playhouse, Brisbane, Playhouse, Canberra, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs with Brink Productions,STCSA, STC & QTC
2008	Frost/Nixon		Fairfax Studio, Melbourne with MTC
2008	The Lower Depths		Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne with Ariette Taylor Productions
2009	Flashpoint: Big Noise / Topsy / Whiteley's Incredible Blue		Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2011	Song of the Bleeding Throat		The Eleventh Hour Theatre, Melbourne
2011	Whiteley's Incredible Blue ... an hallucination	Brett Whiteley	Fortyfivedownstairs for Melbourne International Arts Festival
2017	The Realistic Joneses		Red Stitch Actors Theatre
2019	The Tree of Man		Old Treasury Building, Melbourne with Stork Theatre [8]
2023	Green Time & Tempo		Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne
2023	Good Works	Alan / Brother Clement / Barry / Mr Donovan	Mill Theatre, Canberra
2024	Terror	Christian Lauterbach	Mill Theatre, Canberra [9]

As crew

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Lighting Designer	Theatre 3, Acton, Canberra with Black Inc
1985	Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris	Assistant Director	Gorman House, Canberra with Black Inc
1985	Private Lives	Lighting Designer	Theatre 3, Acton with Canberra Repertory Society
1986	After Magritte	Publicist	Rehearsal Room, Civic Square, Canberra with Black Inc & Canberra Theatre Trust

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References

1. "Australian Television: Blue Heelers: Cast".
2. "Airdate: For Valour | TV Tonight". 2 April 2009.
3. "Airdate: The Digger | TV Tonight". 6 April 2011.
4. "Airdate: Breaker Morant: The Retrial | TV Tonight". 28 October 2013.
5. "The Kettering Incident: Teaser | TV Tonight". 21 April 2015.
6. "Airdate: The Kettering Incident | TV Tonight". 3 May 2016.
7. "Australian Television: The Kettering Incident: Cast".
8. "The Tree of Man". artsreview.com.au. 31 July 2019.
9. "Terror - June 2024 - Mill Theatre at Dairy Road". Humanitix.
10. "Neil Pigot". AusStage.

External links

• Neil Pigot at IMDb
• https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/pigot-returns-in-fine-voice-20030505-gdvngm.html