Draft:Paul Carson (actor)

His acting career began at the age of six, making his stage debut with the Fort Worth Civic Opera, playing Trouble in Madame Butterfly. After appearing in several films and radio broadcasts, he deciding to give up the profession for good.

Carson and his family moved to Tokyo in 1951 as a result of his father being stationed there. After graduating from high school, he became drama critic for The Nippon Times before returning to the States in 1953.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/331216511/|title=Obituary: Robert Carson|date=14 February 1989|access-date=4 May 2025|publisher=The Marshall News Messenger|page=3}}

After serving several years in the United States Air Force, he was talked back into acting by a film starlet.{{cite news |title="The 'Englishman' from Texas |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/848336480/ |date=1 April 1962 |accessdate=4 May 2025 |work=Sunday Mercury |page=21}}

Carson initially graduated with a Motion Picture degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and toured the States in a production of Maria Stuart as well as appearing off-Broadway in Lady of Affairs.{{cite news |title=Personal Column |date=30 May 1963 |work=The Stage |page=18}} (Around this time, he was briefly engaged to the actress Kim Novak.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxO9JcvTYzc Too Much Information 4.5 - Rider from Shang-Tu] (27:38)) He then came to England in 1959UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 to study drama at RADA, graduating in 1961[https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/paul-carson/ Student & graduate profiles - RADA: Paul Carson] and winning the William Poel Prize for verse speaking{{cite news |title=A new voice for the man from Texas |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/895793642/ |date=25 January 1962 |accessdate=4 May 2025 |work=Birmingham Evening Mail |page=3}} (being the first American to achieve this award).

Afterwards, Carson appeared in repertories at Liverpool and Birmingham, during which he replaced Ralph Nossek as Mathias in The Bells after the actor fractured his knee-cap after slipping on an icy pavement in 1962.{{cite news |title=Actor Slips and Misses Play |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/917558603/ |date=20 November 1962 |accessdate=4 May 2025 |work=Birmingham Post |page=6}} The following year, Carson appeared alongside Sir Ralph Richardson in Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Haymarket Theatre.{{cite news |title=Texan at Watford |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/785800148/ |date=4 September 1964 |accessdate=4 May 2025 |work=Buckinghamshire Examiner |page=2}} This was followed by appearances in TV shows and films (see below).

Whilst in the Air Force and at university, Carson studied Russian{{cite book |title=The Incorporated Linguist, Volumes 5-8 |date=1966 |publisher=Institute of Linguists |page=80 |isbn= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2MtAQAAMAAJ&q=paul+carson+studied+Russian |language=en}} and became a linguist.

Moving to New York in 1967, Carson resumed his acting career in theatre, partaking in productions including Hotel Universe, The Owl and the Pussycat, The Bashful Genius (at Philadelphia's Playhouse in the Park) and The Royal Hunt of the Sun (with the Cleveland Play House).{{cite news |title=Carson in 'Spoon River Anthology' Roles at Central |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/561595541/ |date=24 March 1970 |accessdate=4 May 2025 |work=St. Joseph News-Press |page=9B}} From 1969, he was performing with the Missouri Repertory Company{{cite news |title="Faces of Missouri Rep... the Familiar and the New |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/675759392/ |date=24 May 1970 |accessdate=4 May 2025 |work=The Kansas City Star |page=1D}} before retiring from acting in 1975.

Carson then went on to work as a waiter at Gatsby's and L'Difference in NY before returning to Dallas in 1978. He became head waiter at Sarducci's Ristorante at the Harvey Hotel in Plano, working up until his death.

For a brief time, he was married to and divorced from author Annette Carson (née Groombridge).{{cite news |title="How Annette became queen of the high fliers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/807168000/ |date=7 August 1986 |accessdate=4 May 2025 |work=Reading Evening Post |page=10}}

• Doctor Who (serial - Marco Polo)
• No Hiding Place
• ITV Play of the Week
• Love Story
• The Bedford Incident
• Thirty-Minute Theatre (play - Emergency – Ward 9)
• A Countess from Hong Kong
• You Only Live Twice

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• [https://theatricalia.com/person/z06/paul-carson Paul Carson] at Theatricalia

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:Category:1934 births

:Category:1989 deaths

:Category:Male actors from Texas

:Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

:Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni

:Category:American male film actors

:Category:American male television actors

:Category:American male stage actors

:Category:People from Mineral Wells, Texas

:Category:Linguists of Russian

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