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      During his fifty year career, Peter Diamond accrued more than 1,000 professional film,
      television and theatrical credits, working as a stunt arranger, choreographer, swordmaster,
      performer, stunt double, director and actor.

      Many people will be familiar with his 'Star Wars' connections. Peter choreographed the action
      in the original trilogy of films and appeared on screen in several different guises, most notably
      as the infamous, stick-wielding Tusken Raider. He was Stunt Co-ordinator on Raiders Of The
      Lost Ark as well as 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', Princess Bride, and the first 'Highlander' film -
      in which he once again appeared on screen, as the Immortal called 'Fasil'.

      In later years, that central slab of work gave him a new and inspiring pursuit: that of the
      Sci-Fi Convention Star. Many folks encountered him at festivals around the world, where
      he would sign autographs and engage in discussion about his life and work.

      

      But those high-profile productions were just the tip of the iceberg. In his career,
      Peter was employed in various capacities on twenty-or-so classic 'Hammer' horror films,
      a handful of 'Carry-On' movies, 'The Fifth Musketeer', One Of Dinosaurs Is Missing,
      Candleshoe, 'Kidnapped', and 'Alfie' and - oh - so many to mention. He was actuallly 
      RADA trained and commenced his stunt career working on such Golden Age classics
      as 'Ivanhoe', 'Knights Of The Round Table' and 'The Dark Avenger'. He even appeared
      briefly in the classic tale of The Dam Busters.

      Peter's television series spanned the decades alongside his film work, from the heyday
      of live television productions right up to the present day. A cross-section of his credits
      includes 'Dr Who', 'Ivanhoe', 'The Saint', 'Sir Francis Drake', 'Danger Man', 'Z-Cars',
      'Softly, Softly', 'The Prisoner', 'The Avengers', 'Last Of The Mohicans', 'Return Of The
      Saint', 'Dick Turpin', 'Minder', 'Jeeves And Wooster', New World's 'Zorro' series,
      'Highlander: The Series', 'Where The Heart Is', 'Jonathon Creek', 'One Foot In The
      Grave', 'Rosemary And Thyme', and 'Heartbeat'.

      Sadly, Peter died in March 2004. But his work lives on, and this site exists to chronicle
      his many credits. In my other online guise, I own and operate Toonhound.com, a busy
      little site which takes up an awful lot of my working day, and eats in to the time I have
      available for these pages. Maybe we won't be having daily updates here, but there
      should still be infrequent additions and updates to the indexes, so keep stopping by!


       Frazer Diamond



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