Bruno Lawrence
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.086 |
Birthday | 1941-02-12 |
Place of Birth | Worthing, West Sussex, England |
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1981
Smash Palace
6.2/27
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...
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Smash Palace
1982
Warlords of the 21st Century
4.6/30
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 Corl...
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Warlords of the 21st Century
1981
Goodbye Pork Pie
6.75/24
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...
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Goodbye Pork Pie
1989
The Delinquents
5/24
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 rel...
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The Delinquents
1984
Death Warmed Up
4.424/33
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.
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Death Warmed Up
1988
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
3.2/2
Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985.
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The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
1993
Jack Be Nimble
5.3/17
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...
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Jack Be Nimble
1970
Tank Busters
0/0
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 universi...
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Tank Busters
2000
Numero Bruno
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Numero Bruno is a warts and all biography of widely popular actor, musician and counter-cultural hero Bruno Lawrence. Lawrence's intense, charismatic...
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Numero Bruno
1988
Grievous Bodily Harm
4.5/5
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.
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Grievous Bodily Harm
1987
Initiation
4.9/3
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 d...
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Initiation
1986
Bridge to Nowhere
3.3/3
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 the...
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Bridge to Nowhere
1988
Rikky and Pete
4.3/6
Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.
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Rikky and Pete
1983
Making Utu
0/0
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 p...
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Making Utu
1984
Heart of the Stag
4/4
Chilling story of a farmhand who realizes his popular boss has been committing incest with his daughter for years.
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Heart of the Stag
1981
Race for the Yankee Zephyr
5.759/29
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 follow...
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Race for the Yankee Zephyr
1990
Cowboys of Culture
0/0
Director Geoff Steven's personal perspective on the Kiwi cinema renaissance of the 1970s. It traces the development of the local film industry from th...
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Cowboys of Culture
1985
An Indecent Obsession
4.5/4
Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing...
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An Indecent Obsession
1994
Gino
0/0
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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Gino
1985
The Quiet Earth
6.627/530
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
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The Quiet Earth
1984
Utu
7/28
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 f...
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Utu
1992
Spotswood
5.5/31
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...
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Spotswood
1997
The Rainbow Warrior
5.3/3
Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear t...
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The Rainbow Warrior
1984
Wild Horses
4/1
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 th...
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Wild Horses
1965
Hurry Hurry Faster Faster
6/0
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...
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Hurry Hurry Faster Faster
1980
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
6.5/2
A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.
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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1988
As Time Goes By
5.2/4
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 restaur...
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As Time Goes By
1990
The Rogue Stallion
4.4/5
After her father's death, Anna Peterson and her family move from Australia to her father's ancestral home in New Zealand.
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The Rogue Stallion
1977
Wild Man
0/0
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 duri...
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Wild Man
1982
Carry Me Back
6.5/1
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 th...
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