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 action-er set in Thailand and the pilot and early episodes of the iconic Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, followed by several episodes of the Warner Bros International TV series The New Adventures of Robin Hood.

Then came a foray into directing the live action for a series of ground-breaking Tex Murphy computer 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 still ranks #9 in AdventureGamers Top 100 All-Time Adventure Games.

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 Kight'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 the 2021 LA Shorts Festival - it is automatically competing in the annual 2022 Festival in June.

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 100 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 is directing three feature films: "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. It is 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.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Self