Paul Carpenter (8 December 1921 â€" 12 June 1964) was a Canadian actor
and singer.Carpenter originally attended medical school in Montreal,
but left aged 17 to join the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a
war correspondent. He also played professional hockey in Canada.He
moved to Britain and sang with Ted Heath and His Music in the 1940s
and starred in the BBC Radio serial "Riders of the Range"
(1949â€"1953) as the cowboy Jeff Arnold, where he shared the billing
with his dog, Rustler (played by Percy Edwards). As a movie actor he
"made over three dozen British films in the post-war decades, most of
them 'B' pictures, such as Diplomatic Passport (1954) and One Jump
Ahead (1955), to which he brought an easy, likeable authority that
seemed more difficult for British actors to achieve", His final
(uncredited) film appearance was in the 1964 James Bond film
Goldfinger where he played an American General escorting James Bond.
and singer.Carpenter originally attended medical school in Montreal,
but left aged 17 to join the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a
war correspondent. He also played professional hockey in Canada.He
moved to Britain and sang with Ted Heath and His Music in the 1940s
and starred in the BBC Radio serial "Riders of the Range"
(1949â€"1953) as the cowboy Jeff Arnold, where he shared the billing
with his dog, Rustler (played by Percy Edwards). As a movie actor he
"made over three dozen British films in the post-war decades, most of
them 'B' pictures, such as Diplomatic Passport (1954) and One Jump
Ahead (1955), to which he brought an easy, likeable authority that
seemed more difficult for British actors to achieve", His final
(uncredited) film appearance was in the 1964 James Bond film
Goldfinger where he played an American General escorting James Bond.
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