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Paul Karo
Paul Karo is a Scottish-born, New Zealand-raised Australian former actor. He was a cadet reporter in New Zealand before turning his attention to acting, joining a theatre company.[1] He relocated to Australia in the late 1950s. He appeared in Under the Clocks, a 'sophisticated intimate revue' in Melbourne in 1958.[2] He featured in another revue, Further Off the Beach, the following year; he was singled out by an Age critic for a segment called 'Television Anonymous' about television addicts seeking a cure.[3] He had many television roles in 1959, including Tragedy in a Temporary Town,[4] Beauty and the Beast,[5] Outpost[6] and Rope.[7] He appeared in Quiet Night in 1961. In 1967 he received an aware for Best Actor of 1966 (the "Erik") from Melbourne theatre critics for his role in A Lily for Little India.[8] Karo is best known for his role as the gay television producer Lee Whiteman in the first two years of the 1970s television soap opera The Box. On leaving the show he told TV Week's Sue Wallace that he felt he had been typecast: 'Everyone thinks of me as playing the role of a queer. They haven't had the opportunity to see me do anything else.'[9] In 1976 he won the Best Australian Actor category at the Logie Awards.[10] Other TV credits include: Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police, Prisoner, The Sullivans, Special Squad, Phoenix and SeaChange. FilmographyFilm
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