Bruno Lawrence
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Biography: Born David Charles Lawrence in Worthing, West Sussex, England, he migrated with his family to New Zealand in 1946, settling in New Plymouth before moving to Wellington in 1948. Lawrence spent most of his life in New Zealand, but also worked extensively in Australia. He was a renowned jazz and rock drummer, playing drums in many bands, including Max Merritt & The Meteors, Quincy Conserve,Blerta, and The Crocodiles. His last recording was with Bernie McGann, Larry Gales and Jonathan Crayford on "Jazz at the St. James" in 1989. In the early 1970s, Lawrence founded Blerta ("Bruno Lawrence's Electric Revelation and Travelling Apparition"). The multi and theatrical co-operative toured New Zealand and in parts of Australia. Blerta saw him performing alongside many people he would work with later as an actor, including director Geoff Murphy, and actors Martyn Sanderson and Ian Watkin.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Worthing, West Sussex, England
Birthday: February 12, 1941
Deathday: June 10, 1995
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Gender: Male
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Smash Palace
Overview: Al Shaw's life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the "Smash Palace". His French wife, Jacqui, doesn't appreciate the lack of attention due to Al's obsession with cars. When Al finds her in the arms of another man, he takes his daughter, Georgie and heads for the bush, desperately hoping to hold on to the only family he has left.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-01
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Warlords of the 21st Century
Overview: It's the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major cities is lawless. After Hunter comes to the aid of Corlie, who has run away from the villainous Straker, he takes her to the peaceful community of Clearwater. Unfortunately for the citizens of Clearwater, Straker fully intends to get Corlie back.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Goodbye Pork Pie
Overview: Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him. The ultimate New Zealand road trip adventure.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-05
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The Delinquents
Overview: A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their relationship and try to separate them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-21
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Death Warmed Up
Overview: A kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a grown up he returns to seek revenge over the scientist.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-22
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The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
Overview: Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-09
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Jack Be Nimble
Overview: Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with a sadistic family. Dora, whose life has been somewhat better, has developed extra-sensory powers which tell her that Jack's in danger and drives her to search for him.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-15
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Tank Busters
Overview: The Italian Job meets cheap jugs and a student union gig in this early heist tale from Geoff Murphy (Goodbye Pork Pie). The plot follows some university students — short on exam fees and beer money — and their scheme to crack a campus safe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-30
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Numero Bruno
Overview: Numero Bruno is a warts and all biography of widely popular actor, musician and counter-cultural hero Bruno Lawrence. Lawrence's intense, charismatic screen presence was key to ground-breaking Kiwi films, Smash Palace, The Quiet Earth and Utu. Directed by Steve La Hood, this documentary features interviews with family and friends, and liberal excerpts from Lawrence's film and musical work, including performances by 70s alternative Aotearoa icons Blerta and clips showcasing his seminal collaborations with Geoff Murphy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Grievous Bodily Harm
Overview: A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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Initiation
Overview: After the death of his mother, teenage Danny visits his father Matt Malloy on a lonesome farm in Australia, where he lives with a girlfriend and her daughter Stevie. The farm has been going bad lately, so Matt starts smuggling Marijuana for a drug connection. When Danny joins him on one of his flights, the two-seater crashes in the middle of nowhere. Since his father is wounded, he has to conquer the jungle alone in search for help.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-20
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Bridge to Nowhere
Overview: Kids on an outing in the forest come up against a mysterious hermit who lives on the other side of a bridge, and he is definitely not happy to see them.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-16
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Rikky and Pete
Overview: Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-09
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Making Utu
Overview: Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983), working with little money and dealing respectfully with matters of cultural protocol. Merata Mita discusses complex issues of inter-cultural conflict.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-05
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Heart of the Stag
Overview: Chilling story of a farmhand who realizes his popular boss has been committing incest with his daughter for years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-28
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Race for the Yankee Zephyr
Overview: In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars in the wreck. Helicopter pilot Barney helps Gibbie against them, risking his life thereby.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-28
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Cowboys of Culture
Overview: Director Geoff Steven's personal perspective on the Kiwi cinema renaissance of the 1970s. It traces the development of the local film industry from the ‘she'll be right' days when filming permits were unknown, and all that was needed to get a picture up were a Bolex camera, enthusiasm and ingenuity.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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An Indecent Obsession
Overview: Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing a sexual attraction for a new patient.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-23
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Gino
Overview: Gino Pallazetti is in love with Lucia Petri and his career as a stand up comedian is about to take off.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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The Quiet Earth
Overview: After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-08
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Spotswood
Overview: Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-23
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Utu
Overview: In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal leads him to seek utu (revenge). The settler Williamson in turn seeks revenge after Te Wheke attacks his homestead. Meanwhile Wiremu, an officer for the British, seems to think that resistance is futile.
Genres: War Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-27
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The Rainbow Warrior
Overview: Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew member, he must convince the police superintendent that this is an act of terrorism. Determined not to allow outside forces to threaten their harbor, the police embark on a pursuit of the persons responsible. The events that follow nearly bring down an allied nation's government.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-28
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Wild Horses
Overview: Amid the high country of the North Island interior, wild horse roam and breed. With the trees gone, Dan Mitchell and the Sullivan brothers, turn to the wild horses as a source of income. With rope and snare - and the help of an experienced horse catching team - Sam and Sara's example, the rough ex-loggers learn to respect a delicate balance between the wild horses and their catchers. The best stallions are left to breed and their riding horses are retired back into the wild herds.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-18
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Hurry Hurry Faster Faster
Overview: Before the Blerta bus and Goodbye Pork Pie's yellow mini hit the road, some friends with more energy than cash dressed up as mad doctors and criminals, and began making films. This freeform short about running late is an early product of varied schemers who were key in the Kiwi film renaissance. Geoff Murphy plays the man in a hurry, and Bruno Lawrence is Dr Brunowski. Warning: final credits not to be trusted.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-15
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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Overview: A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-31
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As Time Goes By
Overview: A surfer abandoned in the middle of the Australian Outback encounters an alien who time-travels in a ship that looks like a 1950s greasy spoon restaurant and embroils the hero in a chase that involves him sorting out a time paradox so that he can wind back time to prevent the Japanese winning World War II.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-29
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The Rogue Stallion
Overview: After her father's death, Anna Peterson and her family move from Australia to her father's ancestral home in New Zealand.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Wild Man
Overview: The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island during the latter part of the last century.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Carry Me Back
Overview: Two brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the town. However, the old man dies in their hotel and the boys need to smuggle his body back to their farm and make it appear that he died there to satisfy a clause in his will or else they won't inherit the property.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-01
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