Peter Curtin

Peter Julian Curtin (31 January 1944 – 19 May 2014) was an Australian television and stage actor.

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.

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

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

Curtin's numerous television credits included MDA, White Collar Blue, All Saints, Blue Heelers, Something in the Air, The Games and SeaChange. 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.

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

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

Curtin died, aged 70, on 19 May 2014.