Peter Hosking (actor)

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Peter Hosking (born 19 December 1947) is an Australian actor and audiobook narrator.

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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. [1]

In 1996, Hosking received TDK Australian Audio Book Award for Home Before Dark. [2] 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. [3] He produced, filmed and edited this show for four years. [4] 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, [5]

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. [6] [7]

In 2018, Hosking voiced the character Hanush of Leipa in the 2018 video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance . [8]

Selected credits

Theatre

YearTitleRoleNotes
1978Various titlesVarious roles The Pram Factory

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1980 The Sullivans 2 rolesTV series
1980 Skyways TV series
1980GailTV series
1980-83 Cop Shop 3 rolesTV series
1981 I Can Jump Puddles TV miniseries
1981-82, 1985 Prisoner TV series
1981 Come Midnight Monday TV series
1982 Home TV series
1982Too Many People are Disappearing
1982 All the Rivers Run
1983/85 Carson’s Law TV series
1983The KeepersTV series
1983WaterfrontTV 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 BlairTV series
1986InbetweenTV series
1986PerryTV series
1986Potato and the CobaldTV series
1986 The Henderson Kids TV series
1987 Rafferty’s Rules TV series
1987DustyTV series
1988ComplaintsTV 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
1992To the End of the Galaxy and Turn LeftTV 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
1993The Flood
1994-99 Blue Heelers Frank DavisTV series, season 1
1995 The Feds TV miniseries
1996 Halifax f.p. Homicide Police OfficerTV series, S2, E3: "Sweet Dreams"
1996 Good Guys, Bad Guys TV series
1997-98 State Coroner Phil DalyTV 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-currentNu Country TVMusic 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
2012Homicide Franchise
2013 1864 TV miniseries
2013TAGChildren's TV series
2013 Crossing Lines TV series
2016-21 Britannia RaymeTV 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
2022The SeedTV series

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1982 The Pirate Movie Feature film
1982 Squizzy Taylor Angus MurrayFeature film
1984CopfileFeature 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
1989FrankShort film (Swinburne F&TS)
1990SecretsShort film (Swinburne F&TS)
1992Demi-GodShort film (Swinburne Film & TV School)
1992Concrete NestShort film (Swinburne Film & TV School)
1995Into Each LifeShort film (Swinburne Film & TV School)
1995 River Street Feature film
1996 The Feds: Betrayal Assistant Commissioner Roland ClokeTV movie
1996Deathbed of an UndertakerShort film (VCA Film & TV School)
1998 Pride Feature film
1998 Siam Sunset Feature film
2000 The Wog Boy BazzaFeature film
2003 Razor Eaters HurstleighFeature film
2005FinctionalShort film
2005Einstein's SisterShort film
2005RoughenShort film
2005TriggerShort film
2007Personality PlusFeature film
2007AardvarkShort film (Prague Film School)
2008Head to LoveShort film (Poland)
2008 Sněženky a machři po 25 letech Feature film (Czech)
2010An Application for Asylum in the Czech Republic on Ecological GroundsComic Documentary
2012The Last KnightsFeature film
2014Vice Admiral Tordenskiold... and DogDanish Feature film (Denmark)
2015Mr. HaslingerShort film
2015 The Shamer's Daughter Feature film
2015 Gangster Ka Dr. MartierFeature 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 JoeFeature film
2022 Extraction 2 Feature film

Music video

YearTitleArtistNotes
2008You and MeBobby SoxMusic video clip (shot in Prague)

Audio books

YearTitleRoleNotes
1996Home Before DarkNarratorAudio book

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2018 Kingdom Come: Deliverance Hanush of Leipa (voice)Video game

References

  1. "Australian Theatre History. The Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory". The Pram Factory. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  2. "Link-up – December 1996". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  3. "Nu Country TV". C31 Melbourne. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  4. Hallett, Bryce (8 April 2002). "A Stretch of the Imagination, Downstairs Belvoir". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  5. "AudioFile, Discover the World of Audiobooks". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  6. "Radio Prague – English "stands in" for Czech in first translation of Cimrman classic". Radio Prague. 11 November 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  7. 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.
  8. "PETER HOSKING - CV Page". www.peterhosking.com. Retrieved 13 March 2021.