PeterHarcourt
- Presenter
- Actor
Best known for his many decades in radio, Peter Harcourt's career also included books and varied screen appearances. In the 60s he and his wife Kate Harcourt fronted Junior Magazine, one of our earliest children’s TV shows. Peter went on to act on Gloss and present the Mobil Song Quest, though his most famous screen appearance runs just 21 seconds – a 60s era underwear ad which was originally rejected as too risque to screen.
Screenography
Biography
The Harcourt family make appearances across almost a century of Kiwi media and the arts. Gordon Harcourt senior owned a radio station in Wellington back in the 1920s. His son Peter’s career spanned appearances on television, 50 years of radio, and a number of books about Kiwi culture. Peter married actor Kate Harcourt and they had two children: actor and all-rounder Miranda Harcourt, and Fair Go host Gordon Harcourt.
Awards
1993 Companion of the Queen's Service Order
For Community Service
“A great-hearted gent and a bloody good scholar. If there were more like him around, the world would not only be a much finer and friendlier place, but its theatrical and musical libraries would be much the richer.”