Bruno Lawrence

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.

  • Title: Bruno Lawrence
  • Popularity: 2.593
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1941-02-12
  • Place of Birth: Worthing, West Sussex, England
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Bruno Lawrence Movies

  • 1981
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    Smash Palace

    Smash Palace

    6.2 1981 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Warlords of the 21st Century

    Warlords of the 21st Century

    4.6 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1981
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    Goodbye Pork Pie

    Goodbye Pork Pie

    6.8 1981 HD

    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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  • 1989
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    The Delinquents

    The Delinquents

    5 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1984
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    Death Warmed Up

    Death Warmed Up

    4.4 1984 HD

    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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  • 1988
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    The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy

    The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy

    3.2 1988 HD

    Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985.

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  • 1993
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    Jack Be Nimble

    Jack Be Nimble

    5.3 1993 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Tank Busters

    Tank Busters

    1 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    Numero Bruno

    Numero Bruno

    1 2000 HD

    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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  • 1988
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    Grievous Bodily Harm

    Grievous Bodily Harm

    4.6 1988 HD

    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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  • 1987
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    Initiation

    Initiation

    4.9 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 1986
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    Bridge to Nowhere

    Bridge to Nowhere

    3.3 1986 HD

    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...

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  • 1988
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    Rikky and Pete

    Rikky and Pete

    4.3 1988 HD

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

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  • 1983
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    Making Utu

    Making Utu

    1 1983 HD

    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...

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  • 1984
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    Heart of the Stag

    Heart of the Stag

    4 1984 HD

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

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  • 1981
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    Race for the Yankee Zephyr

    Race for the Yankee Zephyr

    5.8 1981 HD

    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...

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  • 1990
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    Cowboys of Culture

    Cowboys of Culture

    1 1990 HD

    Director Geoff Steven's personal perspective on the Kiwi cinema renaissance of the 1970s. It traces the development of the local film industry from...

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  • 1985
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    An Indecent Obsession

    An Indecent Obsession

    4.5 1985 HD

    Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by...

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  • 1994
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    Gino

    Gino

    1 1994 HD

    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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  • 1985
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    The Quiet Earth

    The Quiet Earth

    6.621 1985 HD

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

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  • 1992
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    Spotswood

    Spotswood

    5.5 1992 HD

    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...

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  • 1984
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    Utu

    Utu

    7 1984 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    The Rainbow Warrior

    The Rainbow Warrior

    5.3 1997 HD

    Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear...

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  • 1984
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    Wild Horses

    Wild Horses

    4 1984 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    Hurry Hurry Faster Faster

    Hurry Hurry Faster Faster

    6 1965 HD

    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...

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  • 1980
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    Beyond Reasonable Doubt

    Beyond Reasonable Doubt

    6.5 1980 HD

    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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  • 1988
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    As Time Goes By

    As Time Goes By

    5.2 1988 HD

    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...

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  • 1990
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    The Rogue Stallion

    The Rogue Stallion

    4.4 1990 HD

    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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  • 1977
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    Wild Man

    Wild Man

    1 1977 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Carry Me Back

    Carry Me Back

    6.5 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1981
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    Smash Palace

    Smash Palace

    6.2 1981 HD

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  • 1977
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    Wild Man

    Wild Man

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1986
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    Pallet on the Floor

    Pallet on the Floor

    5 1986 HD

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  • 1985
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    The Quiet Earth

    The Quiet Earth

    6.621 1985 HD

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  • 1984
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    Heart of the Stag

    Heart of the Stag

    4 1984 HD

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  • 1994
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    Frontline

    Frontline

    7.5 1994 HD

    Frontline is an Australian comedy television series which satirised Australian television current affairs programmes and reporting. It ran for three...

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  • 1986
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    The Great Bookie Robbery

    The Great Bookie Robbery

    7 1986 HD

    On 21st April 1976, gunmen held up more than 50 members of Melbourne’s venerable Victorian club, escaping with several million dollars in...

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  • 1993
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    The Feds

    The Feds

    1 1993 HD

    The Feds is a series of Australian television films starring Robert Taylor, which were first broadcast on the Nine Network 1993-1996. The Feds...

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