 In 1993, Carver won a Tony Award which he dedicated to the late Canadian actress Susan Wright, who had died two years earlier in a house fire in Stratford, Ontario.In May 2014, Carver received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honor in the performing arts, for his lifetime contribution to Canadian theatre.Carver portrayed Ichabod Crane in the 1999 TV film "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" which aired on Odyssey.