Peter Greenwood

For the footballer, see Peter Greenwood (footballer).

Peter Greenwood (born 17 October 1962 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian screen and voice actor, special effects technician, researcher, designer and media consultant. He is related to actress Joan Greenwood.

He began his career as a cel painter with Hanna Barbera Australia at age fifteen, followed by a stint on Sydney radio station 2UW on the Rick Melbourne morning comedy radio show "Wood duck theatre" . As a commercial actor he has appeared in minor roles in several Australian TV soap opera's, while he has worked on various advertising campaigns he is perhaps best known in Australia as the spokesperson for Matchbox die cast cars brand "Parasites".

As a writer he has also worked on magazine published by the Fairfax group starting with "Omega Science Digest" "Womans Day" and TV Soap magazine. (he also produced several special issue magazines for the Howitz group such as "Addams family Vs The Munsters, The Simpsons, Paul Hogan special and James Dean special)his name appears as Hollywood editor on these special editions.

During the 1980s he worked as a licensing designer/consultant for Hanna Barbera Australia, Reg Grundy Productions and Village Roadshow before moving to Los Angeles where he worked in the merchandising and promotions field.

In 1992 he was the supervising producer on the abortive American adaptation of the British sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf, under executive producer Linwood Boomer (creator of Malcolm in the Middle). During 1993 he worked as a costume and special effects technician on an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and on the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III.

Since 2006 Peter J Greenwood has been the licensing Manager worldwide for Jack Chertok Television, He was recently quoted by the Los Angeles Times regarding his search and restoration of the Chertok show "My Living Doll.(1)

Greenwood continues to search for this program in order to issue a second volume in 2013.

He also supervised the recent merchandising reactivation of the show "My Favorite Martian" his name can be found on the side panel of the Pegasus hobbies kit of Uncle Martin's space ship and the Factory Entertainment Bobble collection.

Consulting to the Milton Canniff estate he can be found credited in the Hermes Press reprints of the Gold key "Steve Canyon" books and the "Mail call" art book together with the Hermes Press My Favorite Martian volume one comic reprint where he is also listed as the visual editor in the credits page.

For home video he oversaw the 2012 DVD's extras footage for "Alias Smith and Jones" "Laramie" "Wagon Train" and "87th Precinct".

In 2012 he also oversaw the special reprint of a Gold Key My Favorite Martian title together with Hermes Press as part of the Free Comic Book day event across the United States, In doing so it represented the first sixties television show to ever become part of this event.

The special edition reprint comic can be seen on the 2012 Free comic Book page in the second tier titles selection and uses the original box art from the My Favorite Martian Transogram board game.

In 2013 he became the world wide licensing manager for Anderson Entertainment and has overseen several new products in the regard starting with Gerry Anderson's "Dick Spanner". He is also the driving force behind a new push for the Anderson company to return to puppet production, which will begin in 2015 with a new British version of "Gerry Anderson's Firestorm which was previously produced as a anime.

Further credits can be found in Keith Scotts book "The Moose That Roared" and the recent "Brady Bunch" history all of this now has made him a sought after consultant for older television projects and as such can now be found quoted heavily in the third volume of the Star Trek History "These Are The Voyages" by Marc Cushman.

As an actor he has voiced a wide range of characters, In his native Australia he was known as a voice over artist for American accented work, having provided tracks for Virgin games and Vitrinox Swiss army knives the later of which was nominated for an Australian Cleo award for radio.

On screen he was mostly seen as a baby faced heavy on several soap opera's from "The Young Doctors" to "The Restless Years" for the Australian Production company Reg Grundy Productions.

His first US based voice work was on the Art Clokey Produced Gumby adventures remake 1986-87, where he voiced over twenty characters and provided script elements for the Australian themed episode "Kangaroo Express" in which he voiced all the Australian characters. (on this Australian Gumby segment he also created and painted many of the miniature props seen in that episode as a skilled props maker)

The next Australian themed project was "Walt Disney's The Rescuers Down Under" where he provided the radio voice and Airplane captain and again ad libbed the first lines of Australian dialogue heard in this film as the Cody character runs past the kitchen as the film begins.

From that point Greenwood has provided looping services for Saban's "The Power Rangers" "Big Bad Beetleborgs" and "Masked Rider". His laugh and dialogue can also be heard on the first installment of the Disney Pirates franchise as crew voices for the Black Pearl.

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References

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External links

(1) King, Susan (2012-04-04). "The 'Perfect' '60s Woman". latimes.com. Retrieved 15 April 2012

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