Paul Carpenter (8 December 1921 – 12 June 1964) was a Canadian actor and singer. Life and career Carpenter originally attended medical school in Montreal, but left aged 17 to join the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a war correspondent. He also played professional hockey in Canada. He moved to Britain and sang with Ted Heath and His Music in the 1940s and starred in the BBC Radio serial Riders of the Range (1949–1953) as the cowboy Jeff Arnold, where he shared the billing with his dog, Rustler (played by Percy Edwards). As a movie actor he "made over three dozen British films in the post-war decades, most of them 'B' pictures, such as Diplomatic Passport (1954) and One Jump Ahead (1955), to which he brought an easy, likeable authority that seemed more difficult for British actors to achieve". His final (uncredited) film appearance was in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger where he played an American General escorting James Bond. During 1955-1956, he starred in his only television programme, Sailor of Fortune with Lorne Greene. Death During rehearsals for the play The First Fish by Frank Tarloff at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, with a cast that included Moira Lister, Louie Ramsay and Ray Barrett, Carpenter arrived at the theatre and asked to be helped to a dressing room as he felt unwell. The director, Charles Ross, and the other actors were unaware he was at the theatre. He was found dead alone in the dressing room three hours later. He had recently recovered from injuries suffered in a car accident. Partial filmography This Man Is Mine (1946) – (uncredited) School for Secrets (1946) – Flt. Lt. Argylle Uneasy Terms (1948) – Windy Nicholls The Third Man (1949) – International Patrol D (uncredited) Landfall (1949) – F / O Morgan Albert R.N. (1953) – Fred Face the Music (1954) – Johnny Sutherland The Weak and the Wicked (1954) – Joe, Bab's boyfriend Night People (1954) – Eddie Whitby The House Across the Lake (1954) – Vincent Gordon The Diamond (1954) – Mickey Sweeney (uncredited) Johnny on the Spot (1954) – Paul Carrington Five Days (1954) – Paul Kirby Duel in the Jungle (1954) – Pan American Airways Clerk A Stranger Came Home (1954) – Bill Saul Diplomatic Passport (1954) – Ray Anderson The Young Lovers (1954) – Gregg Pearson The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954) – Lt Patrick Boyle, Sea