Garnet Hannell Carroll, OBE (4 December 1902 – 23 August 1964) was an Australian actor, theatre owner and theatrical director and producer.
His parents were dentist Roger Bebe Carroll and his wife Mildred Lorne (née Smith).
In New Zealand he took up post as a theatre manager for Ben Fuller, and married Australian actress Catherine "Kitty" Stewart Elliott in on 11 April 1930.
[1][2] Some of Carroll's stage productions, including West Side Story and The Diary of Anne Frank, were commercial failures.
He also suffered from diabetes for over a decade and died of cardiovascular disease on 23 August 1964 in South Yarra, Melbourne, survived by his wife and their son.