Peter Hosking (actor) explained

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.[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 .[8]

Selected credits

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
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 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

YearTitleRoleNotes
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 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

Video games

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Australian Theatre History. The Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory. The Pram Factory. 1 April 2017.
  2. Web site: Link-up – December 1996. National Library of Australia. 1 April 2017.
  3. Web site: Nu Country TV. C31 Melbourne. 1 April 2017. en.
  4. Web site: Hallett. Bryce. A Stretch of the Imagination, Downstairs Belvoir. The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 April 2002 . 1 April 2017.
  5. Web site: AudioFile, Discover the World of Audiobooks. AudioFile Magazine. 1 April 2017. en.
  6. Web site: Radio Prague – English "stands in" for Czech in first translation of Cimrman classic. Radio Prague. 11 November 2014 . 1 April 2017. en.
  7. Web site: GEORGE. GABRIELLE. Review: The Conquest of the North Pole Art and Culture in Prague, Czech Republic Prague Business Directory from Prague.TV. Prague TV. 1 April 2017. en.
  8. Web site: PETER HOSKING - CV Page . www.peterhosking.com . 13 March 2021.