Paul Carpenter (actor)


Paul Carpenter was a Canadian actor and singer.

Life and career

Carpenter originally attended medical school in Montreal, but left aged 17 to join the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a war correspondent. He also played professional hockey in Canada.
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" as the cowboy Jeff Arnold, where he shared the billing with his dog, Rustler. 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 and One Jump Ahead, to which he brought an easy, likeable authority that seemed more difficult for British actors to achieve", His final film appearance was in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger where he played an American General escorting James Bond.
During rehearsals for a play at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, Carpenter was found dead in his dressing room. He had recently recovered from injuries suffered in a car accident.

Partial filmography