Bruno Lawrence

Born: 1941-02-12

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.


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The Quiet Earth

as Zac Hobson
Released: 1985-09-08

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

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Grievous Bodily Harm

as Det. Sgt. Ray Birch
Released: 1988-10-26

A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not...

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Race for the Yankee Zephyr

as Barker
Released: 1981-11-28

In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from...

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Spotswood

as Robert, Carey's Father
Released: 1992-01-23

Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts...

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Death Warmed Up

as Tex
Released: 1984-11-22

A kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a...

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Warlords of the 21st Century

as Willie
Released: 1982-01-01

It's the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major...

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The Delinquents

as Bosun
Released: 1989-12-21

A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because...

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Initiation

as Nat Molloy
Released: 1987-06-20

After the death of his mother, teenage Danny visits his father Matt Malloy on a lonesome farm in...

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The Rainbow Warrior

as Detective Sr. Sgt. Terry Batchelor
Released: 1997-03-28

Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July...

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Rikky and Pete

as Sonny
Released: 1988-06-09

Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small...

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Smash Palace

as Al Shaw
Released: 1981-05-01

Al Shaw's life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the "Smash Palace"....

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Utu

as Williamson
Released: 1984-06-27

In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the...

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt

as Pat Vesey
Released: 1980-01-31

A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey...

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The Rogue Stallion

as John Peterson
Released: 1990-01-01

After her father's death, Anna Peterson and her family move from Australia to her father's...

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An Indecent Obsession

as Matt Sawyer
Released: 1985-05-23

Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric...

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Heart of the Stag

as Peter Daley
Released: 1984-07-28

Chilling story of a farmhand who realizes his popular boss has been committing incest with his...

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Goodbye Pork Pie

as Mulvaney
Released: 1981-02-05

Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose...

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Jack Be Nimble

as Teddy
Released: 1993-09-15

Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after...

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Bridge to Nowhere

as Mac
Released: 1986-05-16

Kids on an outing in the forest come up against a mysterious hermit who lives on the other side...

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The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy

as Detective Sergeant Batchelor
Released: 1988-10-09

Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in...

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Carry Me Back

as uncredited
Released: 1982-06-01

Two brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the...

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As Time Goes By

as uncredited
Released: 1988-09-29

A surfer abandoned in the middle of the Australian Outback encounters an alien who time-travels...

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Wild Man

as Wild Man
Released: 1977-01-01

The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast...

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Gino

as Mr. Palzetti
Released: 1994-06-01

Gino Pallazetti is in love with Lucia Petri and his career as a stand up comedian is about to...

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Hurry Hurry Faster Faster

as uncredited
Released: 1965-07-15

Before the Blerta bus and Goodbye Pork Pie's yellow mini hit the road, some friends with more...

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Making Utu

as Self
Released: 1983-02-05

Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983), working with little...

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Frontline

as Brian Thompson
First aired: 1994-05-09

Frontline is an Australian comedy television series which satirised Australian television...

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The Great Bookie Robbery

as Cracka Park
First aired: 1986-11-15

On 21st April 1976, gunmen held up more than 50 members of Melbourne’s venerable Victorian club,...

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