Biography

Australian native, Adrian Carr, is a multi-award-winning director and film editor best, known for editing "The Man from Snowy River" starring Kirk Douglas, Tom Selleck's western, "Quigley Down Under", the WWI epic "The Lighthorsemen" and "D.A.R.Y.L.", a popular sci-fi adventure movie.

Adrian directed "Now and Forever", starring Cheryl Ladd, "The Sword of Bushido", a martial arts adventure-action set in Thailand and the pilot and early episodes of the iconic "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" for 20th Century Fox, followed by several episodes of the Warner Bros International TV series "The New Adventures of Robin Hood", shot in Lithuania.

Then came a foray into directing the live-action sequences for a series of ground-breaking Tex Murphy computer adventure games: "The Pandora Directive" starring Barry Corbin, Kevin McCarthy, Tanya Roberts (won Game of the Year 1996), then "Overseer" with Michael York, Henry Darrow, Richard Norton followed by "Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure" starring Steve Valentine, June Lockhart, Jodi Russell (won the Adventure Gamer's Aggie Award for Best Adventure Game Character and 10 Reader's Choice awards including Adventure Game of the Year and Best Traditional Adventure). "The Pandora Directive" ranked #9 in AdventureGamers Top 100 All-Time Adventure Games in 2011.

Adrian also directed John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Christian Slater, Anne Archer and Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Warner and Lacey Chabert, for their voice roles in a 3-D Imax animation project entitled "Quantum Quest" (aka 2004: A Light Knight's Odyssey).

Followed by a hustle-style drama-comedy "Mind Games" for a first time writer/producer.

Two of Adrian's unsettling dramatic shorts both won awards; "Permanent Stays" was awarded an ACS Gold Award for Best Drama in Australia and "Blood Makes Noise" picked up Best Suspense Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.

He recently directed and edited "SOLUS", a 45 minute sci-fi Pilot, that won Best Short Film. Best Male Director. Best Visual Effects. Best Music Score. Best Sound Design and Best Film of the Month in June for the 2021 LA Shorts Festival.

During the Covid lock-down Adrian wrote, directed and edited a disturbing, dramatic short titled "When the Chips Are Down" starring Larry Thomas (Seinfeld's Soup Nazi). The short was accepted into the Pasadena International Film Festival.

Not only is Adrian an accomplished director and editor, he is also a talented stills photographer with a decade as the official photographer for the "British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles". He has photographed headshots for hundreds of actors and actresses.

He won a Bronze Award for the Most Original Calendar for his "Naked Cigar Calendar" in the National Calendar Awards and is creating a coffee-table book "The Naked Cigar" with new photographs in the same vein. He completed a coffee-table book A Ten-Year Retrospective of BAFTA Los Angeles Q&As and Events.

Adrian has four feature films in development to direct: "A Dolphin in our Lake" starring Noah Wyle, to lens in September 2026 and "PeeksKill", a supernatural-horror-mystery and "Do It Scared", winner of the 2022 Pasadena International Film Festival Award for Best Feature Screenplay; a faith-centric movie based on the true story Rob Galea, the last person you'd expect to become a rock star or world famous priest, but he became both.

He is also the director and co-screenwriter of "Stoker’s Boat", the epic, true-story of Lt. Comm. Henry Stoker and the AE2 submarine crew who embark on a virtual suicide mission to breach the heavily fortified Dardanelles Strait that’s also riddled with underwater mines. Their success is one of the greatest achievements in submarine warfare and Gallipoli legend.
- IMDb mini biography by: Self