Peter Kowitz
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Peter Kowitz is an Australian actor.
His television credits include: Prime Time
, Richmond Hill
, Chances, Pacific Drive
, Water Rats
, Wildside
, Farscape
, Murder Call
, Grass Roots, All Saints
and Supernova.
Peter Kowitz is one of Australia's most prolific stage performers and has worked extensively in comedy. He has had roles in classics like Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Doll's House, as well as numerous Shakespearean plays.
He is also a familiar face on Australian television, with credits including Murder Call, Rafferty's Rules, Wildside, Big Sky and Halifax f.p. Swimming With Sharks.
He has won two AFI awards – in 1986, when he was named Best Lead Actor in a Telefeature for The Long Way Home, and in 1989, when he was awarded Best Performance by an Actor in a mini-series for Body Surfer.
His television credits include: Prime Time
Prime Time (TV series)
Prime Time is an Australian television series produced by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network in 1986.The series was set at a fictional television station, Channel 5, and dealt with the behind-the-scenes goings-on on the set of a current affairs series called "Assignment".Prime Time was not a...
, Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill (TV series)
Richmond Hill was an Australian television soap opera made in 1988 by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network. It was devised by Reg Watson who also created Neighbours...
, Chances, Pacific Drive
Pacific Drive
Pacific Drive is an Australian television series made by Village Roadshow in association with New World International for the Nine Network between 1996 and 1997....
, Water Rats
Water Rats (TV series)
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001. The series was based around the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime across Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales. The show was set on and around Goat Island in Sydney...
, Wildside
Wildside (TV drama)
Wildside is an Australian police procedural television series broadcast on the ABC from 1997 to 1999.The show consisted of a one hour format that followed police interactions in inner Sydney. It starred Rachael Blake, Tony Martin, Richard Carter and Alex Dimitriades...
, Farscape
Farscape
Farscape is an Australian-American science fiction television series filmed in Australia and produced originally for the Nine Network. The series was conceived by Rockne S. O'Bannon and produced by Jim Henson Productions and Hallmark Entertainment...
, Murder Call
Murder Call
Murder Call was an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and seen on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The idea to the series was born by the books of Tessa Vance by Jennifer Rowe: Suspect/Deadline and Something Wicked...
, Grass Roots, All Saints
All Saints (TV series)
All Saints is an Australian medical drama which first screened on the Seven Network. The series debuted on 24 February 1998 and concluded its run on 27 October 2009...
and Supernova.
Peter Kowitz is one of Australia's most prolific stage performers and has worked extensively in comedy. He has had roles in classics like Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Doll's House, as well as numerous Shakespearean plays.
He is also a familiar face on Australian television, with credits including Murder Call, Rafferty's Rules, Wildside, Big Sky and Halifax f.p. Swimming With Sharks.
He has won two AFI awards – in 1986, when he was named Best Lead Actor in a Telefeature for The Long Way Home, and in 1989, when he was awarded Best Performance by an Actor in a mini-series for Body Surfer.