Bruno Lawrence
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Smash Palace (1981)
- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, Grier Robson
- One of local cinema's finest hours is this rural tale of a brusque auto–mechanic (Bruno Lawrence) whose estrangement from his family leads him…
- Stories on Film (1982-1986)
- Dir. Larry Parr, Costa Botes, Lynton Butler
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, Annie Whittle
- Three short films from New Zealand.
The Makutu On Mrs. Jones (1986) 25 mins
Based on a story by Witi Ihimaera, this short film is about a boys'…
- Battletruck (Warlords of the 21st Century) (1982)
- Dir. Harley Cokeliss
Feat. Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe, James Wainwright…
- In the 21st Century oil wars have left civilisation verging on collapse. Lawlessness and anarchy are the order of this day in this…
- Utu (1983)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott…
- After the great success of GOODBYE PORK PIE, dir. Geoff Murphy and his team get their fingernails dirty with this indigenous 'Western' that addresses…
- Wild Horses (1983)
- Dir. Derek Morton
Feat. Keith Aberdein, John Bach, Bruno Lawrence…
- A Kiwi western set in Tongariro National Park, and based around real events and people associated with the wild equine inhabitants of the Central…
- Utu - Redux (1983-2013)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Wi Kuki Kaa…
- With lavish technical enhancement and narrative streamlining, this 'Redux' version of the 1983 epic restores its rightful place in the canon of great…
- Heart of the Stag (1984)
- Dir. Michael Firth
Feat. Terence Cooper, Bruno Lawrence
- A harrowing drama that deals frankly yet sensitively with the subject of incest. Terence Cooper plays a brutish farmer whose dreadful secret is soon…
- Quiet Earth, The (1985)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge
- New Zealand's best attempt yet at the sci–fi genre. Bruno Lawrence wakes one morning to find himself apparently the only person left on earth.…
- An Indecent Obsession (1985)
- Dir. Les Marinos
Feat. Wendy Hughes, Bruno Lawrence, Gary Sweet…
- Set in a humid Asiatic mental hospital after the Japanese surrender in WW2, this moderately torrid psychodrama features a devout nun (Hughes) develop…
- Bridge to Nowhere (1986)
- Dir. Ian Mune
Feat. Bruno Lawrence
- Young backpackers go bush and find themselves in a conflict of survival with bad–egg Bruno Lawrence.
- Great Bookie Robbery, The (TV Mini Series) (1986)
- Dir. Mark Joffe
Feat. John Bach, Bruno Lawrence, Andy Anderson…
- Classic heist drama based on a multi–million dollar robbery in 1976 Melbourne, and re–enacted by the cream of New Zealand's acting…
- Initiation (1987)
- Dir. Michael Pearce
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, Rodney Harvey, Anna-Maria Winchester…
- Oddball coming of age tale with a young American venturing to the outback to reunite with his estranged father – a drug trafficker.
- Grievous Bodily Harm (1988)
- Dir. Mark Joffe
Feat. Colin Friels, Bruno Lawrence, John Waters
- Police thriller from Australia following a school teacher who becomes convinced that his lover did not die in a car accident as officially stated.
- As Time Goes By (1989)
- Dir. Barry Peak
Feat. Bruno Lawrence
- A distinctively Oz sci–fi comedy, centering around a strange encounter between a knockabout surfer and a time–travelling alien.
- Delinquents, The (1989)
- Dir. Chris Thomson
Feat. Kylie Minogue, Charlie Schlatter, Bruno Lawrence…
- Minogue graduated from her TV soap–opera days with this attempt at a serious period drama, with her and Schlatter playing lovestruck teen…
- Spotswood (1991)
- Dir. Mark Joffe
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Bruno Lawrence…
- Anthony Hopkins plays an efficiency expert hired to overhaul a cottage moccasin factory, and finds himself endeared to the staff, in this affable…
- Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, The (1992)
- Dir. Michael Tuchner
Feat. Sam Neill, Jon Voight, Tony Barry…
- Telemovie enactment of the French–sponsored bombing of the Greenpeace vessel ' Rainbow Warrior' in 1984. Solidly dramatised with Neill and…
- Blerta - The Return Trip... (Blerta Revisited) (2001)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, John Clarke, Martyn Sanderson…
- Less a nostalgia 'trip' than a brilliant compendium of manic moments from New Zealand's 1970's travelling roadshow of anarchic performance –…
- No Petrol, No Diesel! (2009)
- Dir. Stefen Harris
Feat. Jim Moriarty, Helen Pearse-Otene, Mark Hadlow…
- Dir. Harris reunites the cast of THE WAIMATE CONSPIRACY for this spirited sequel of sorts, in which the people of Temuka find themselves battling a…