Biography
Pete is one of New Zealand's most well-known and respected Maori actors. He has been working in the industry as an actor, writer, producer, director and voice artist for over 20 years. Pete helped set up the production company Puriri Films, where works as a producer, director, writer and presenter.
Movie Credits
Once Were Warriors
1994-09-02
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H
The Piano
1993-05-18
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu
Angel in Green
1987-09-22
While a group of Special Forces train a village to defend itself against Terrorists, the Captain of
The Boys
1998-05-07
Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence
Bad Eggs
2003-07-24
Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are two undercover detectives with way too much publicity, who find the
Candy Regentag
1989-06-24
Flesh and fantasy fill the nights of the call girls at Bambi’s, a flashy back street brothel. Join B
Flight of the Albatross
1996-04-29
After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand isl
The Quiet Earth
1985-09-08
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
Hugh and Heke
2010-07-10
Two families on holiday, camp side by side on a spectacular deserted beach. Immediately territorial,
Rapa Nui
1994-06-03
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge Maoi statue in record time before Make c
Raider of the South Seas
1990-08-01
The whole town becomes alarmed when our three teenage heroes, Bobby, Jack and Kate sight a mysteriou
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
1999-05-27
Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003-12-17
As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forc
Pandemonium
1987-09-11
Azaria Chamberlain was not killed by a dingo but saved and raised by said dingos. She is raised in a
The Legend of Johnny Lingo
2003-08-29
When a storm washes a canoe bearing an infant boy ashore upon a small South Pacific island, he is at
Crush
1992-09-15
A car crash blazes a destructive trail trough the lives of three women – an awkward adolescent, a ma