Peter Curtin

Curtin's career began when he joined the Melbourne Theatre Company, appearing in a 1973 production of The Plough and the Stars with Wendy Hughes.^[1]

Curtin appeared in a 1988 Melbourne Theatre Company production of A Streetcar Named Desire, playing the role of Mitch, alongside Helen Morse.^[2] He also performed in a 1990 Playbox Theatre production of Hotel Sorrento and a 1999 staging of The Sick Room.^[2] His final performance with Melbourne Theatre Company was a 2003 production of The Goat in which he reunited with Wendy Hughes.^[2]

Curtin's wife Ailsa Piper directed him in the play The Night Season for Red Stitch Actors Theatre in 2005.^[2]

Curtin's numerous television credits included MDA, White Collar Blue, All Saints, Blue Heelers, Something in the Air, The Games and SeaChange.^[2] Further television series he appeared in featured Ponderosa, BackBerner, Stingers, A Country Practice, Embassy, the television reboot of Mission: Impossible, The Bodysurfer, And Here Comes Bucknuckle, and Winner Takes All.^[3]

Curtin also appeared in several feature films including Blood Money (1980) and Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002).^[2]

Curtin met actress Ailsa Piper in 1986, and they were married a few months later,^[4] in 1987.^[2] In their wedding vows, they changed one vowel, promising to stay together “as long as we both shall love” (rather than 'live').^[2]

Curtin died, aged 70, on 19 May 2014.^[2]