Bruno LawrenceFilmography

Born:: February 12, 1941 in Worthing, West Sussex, Great Britain
Occupation:: Actor, Screenwriter
Birth name:: David Charles Gilbert Lawrence
Biography:: British actor and screenwriter Bruno Lawrence played supporting and occasional leading roles in films of the 1980s. Many of those efforts were produced in New Zealand where Lawrence was raised. He made his onscreen debut as the title character in Wild Man (1977). As a screenwriter, Lawrence is...Read More

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Actors: Bruno Lawrence, Veronica Lawrence, Roger Donaldson, Martyn Sanderson

Synopsis: This is a documentary about Bruno Lawrence, one of New Zealand's wildest and most intriguing entertainers. Lawrence, who died of cancer in 1995 at the age of 50, came to prominence as one of a group of anarchic actors and musicians who brought their message to the public via television in the Read More

2000
Gino

Actors: Nicholas Bufalo, Zoe Carides, Bruno Lawrence, Rose Clemente

Synopsis: The dreams and trials of an aspiring young comic are presented in the Australian film. Gino does not want to follow in his father's footsteps and become a builder. Instead he dreams of being a comic. Unfortunately his pregnant girlfriend presents an obstacle as he prepares himself for an audition Read More

1994
Frontline [TV Series]

Synopsis: Also known as Behind the Frontline and Breaking News, this satirical series offered behind-the-scenes glimpses of a typical Australian TV current-affairs show. The point of the series was to skewer media-journalist claims of objectivity, demonstrating how opinions could easily be swayed by any Read More

1994
Rainbow Warrior

Actors: Jon Voight, Sam Neill, Bruno Lawrence, Kerry Fox, John Callen

Synopsis: "Rainbow Warrior" was the name of a real-life Greenpeace vessel, which embarked upon a worldwide pro-ecological mission in the early 1980s. While docked in New Zealand in 1985, the Rainbow Warior was destroyed by a bomb, and a crew member was killed. In this dramatization, Sam Neill and Jon Voight Read More

1993
Jack Be Nimble

Actors: Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Alexis Arquette, Bruno Lawrence, Tony Barry, Elizabeth Hawthorne

Synopsis: Alternating between urban affluence and rural squalor in its New Zealand setting, this contemporary update of the Brothers Grimm tells the story of a boy and his sister whose placement into very different adoptive homes can't destroy the psychic bond that connects them. An impressionistic opening Read More

1993
The Efficiency Expert

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Alwyn Kurts, Bruno Lawrence, John Walton

Synopsis: Also released as Spotswood, The Efficiency Expert stars Anthony Hopkins as Wallace, a cold-blooded management consultant, infamous for radically "downsizing" every firm he comes in contact with. Wallace's latest assignment is to streamline a small, family-owned shoe factory in Australia. As he Read More

11/6/92
Grievous Bodily Harm

Actors: Colin Friels, John Waters, Bruno Lawrence, Joy Bell

Synopsis: In this stylish and smart 1988 thriller, reporter Tom Stewart accidentally falls on the wrong side (not that he's ever on the right side) of the law during a psychotic killer's spree of murders. Stewart's no angel having already stolen money from a car wreck. At the center of the killings is Read More

1989
Delinquents

Actors: Kylie Minogue, Charlie Schlatter, Angela Punch McGregor, Bruno Lawrence, Desiree Smith

Synopsis: The time is the mid-1950s; the place is a small, conservative town in Australia. Brownie (Charlie Schlatter) and Lola (Kylie Minoque), both well under the age of consent, fall in love. Their parents are dead set against this relationship, and do everything in their power to break it up. Because no Read More

1989
As Time Goes By

Actors: Bruno Lawrence, Nique Needles, Max Gillies, Ray Barrett, Marcelle Schmitz

Synopsis: This Australian-made sci-fi tale is about a surfer who stops in for a bite to eat at a 1940s-type diner. Eventually he realizes that it is not a diner at all -- it is a spaceship disguised as one, and the "owners" of the diner are aliens. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Rikky and Pete

Actors: Stephen Kearney, Nina Landis, Tetchie Agbayani, Bill Hunter, Bruno Lawrence

Synopsis: In the wake of their surprise hit Malcolm, Australian screenwriter/photographer David Parker and director Nadia Tass concocted an equally delightful follow-up, Rikky & Pete. Rikky (Nina Landis) and her brother Pete (Stephen Kearney), feeling like misfits in their hometown (as indeed they are) Read More

1988
Initiation

Actors: Bruno Lawrence, Rodney Harvey, Anna-Maria Winchester, Miranda Otto, Bobby Smith

Synopsis: Danny Molloy (Rodney Harvey) is a wisecracking kid from Brooklyn who travels to the Australian outback in this light teen comedy. He searches for his long-lost father Nat (Bruno Lawrence) after the death of his mother. Kulu (Bobby Smith) is an aborigine with psychic powers who warns Danny of Read More

1987
The Bridge to Nowhere

Actors: Matthew Hunter, Margaret Umbers, Shelly Luxford, Stephen Judd, Philip Gordon, Bruno Lawrence

Synopsis: The New Zealand-produced thriller Bridge to Nowhere takes place in and around an actual unfinished bridge, abandoned in the mid-1920s. Five urban youths head into the wilderness in search of this legendary structure. They have the misfortune to cross the path of mad mountain dweller Bruno Read More

1986
Pokerface

1986
The Quiet Earth

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge

Synopsis: In a tour-de-force sci-fi story with only three main characters, Kiwi director Geoffrey Murphy creates an interesting dynamic nuanced with shades of mysticism. When scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) experiments with a radical new power source -- a band of energy that would circle the planet Read More

1985
An Indecent Obsession

Actors: Wendy Hughes, Gary Sweet, Richard Moir, Jonathan Hyde, Bruno Lawrence, Mark Little

Synopsis: Wendy Hughes plays a gorgeous nurse tending to emotionally disturbed Australian soldiers during WWII. Private Gary Sweet seems to be the most well-adjusted of the patients, which Hughes finds attractive. The fly in the ointment is jealous, maladjusted-patient Richard Moir. His campaign of cruelty Read More

1985
Heart of the Stag

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bruno Lawrence, Mary Regan, Terence Cooper, Anne Flannery

Synopsis: Dramatically set against New Zealand's North Island scenery, this uneven but well-acted story is about Cathy (Mary Regan) -- a woman trapped in an incestual relationship with her father (Terence Cooper) on a remote sheep farm -- and a drifter named Daley (Bruno Lawrence) who arrives there looking Read More

1984
Pallet on the Floor

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bruce Spence, Peter McCauley, Jillian O'Brien, Shirley Gruar, Tony Barry

Synopsis: Flawed by very uneven acting and technical problems, this black comedy about a near-rape and its consequences takes a cue from Hamlet in its resolution of unwanted villains. The story is set in 1966 in a remote town on the coast of New Zealand, a place where the unusual never happens. Yet when Sam Read More

1984
Lizzie: A Woman of Good Character

Synopsis: Filmed in 1981, this New Zealand-based TV production was distributed internationally in 1983. Titled simply A Woman of Good Character in most areas, the film stars Sarah Pierse as a 19th century adventurer. She arrives in New Zealand, hoping to settle down peacefully and quietly. But Sarah must Read More

1983
Death Warmed Up

Actors: Michael Hurst, Margaret Umbers, William Upjohn, Norelle Scott

Synopsis: This funky and intelligent sci-fi-horror sleeper from New Zealand features Gary Day as the maniacal Dr. Howell, director of the Trans-Cranial Applications Hospital, who conducts bizarre brain experiments in a subterranean laboratory on a remote island -- most of which backfire and turn his Read More

1983
Utu

Actors: Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Kelly Johnson, Wi Kuki Kaa, Tim Elliott

Synopsis: Utu is the Maori word for "Retribution," which sums up the chief motivating factor of this New Zealand-produced drama. Set in the 1870s, the film details the exigencies of British Colonial rule. A Maori scout, Te Wheke (Anzac Wallace), stumbles across a native village that has been destroyed in a Read More

1983
Wild Horses

Actors: Keith Aberdein, John Bach, Kevin J. Wilson, Robyn Gibbes, Bruno Lawrence

Synopsis: The New Zealand-filmed Wild Horses stars Keith Aberdein as an itinerant logger. Aberdein is hired by a national park to help corral a herd of roaming horses. In addition to his inability to carry out the job at hand, he also manages to scare off most of the deer in the area. This incurs the wrath Read More

1982
Battletruck

Actors: Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe, James Wainwright, John Ratzenberger, Randolph Powell

Synopsis: Harley Cokliss (second-unit director for The Empire Strikes Back) made his feature-film directing debut in this Mad Max-inspired action film. The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic civilization carrying on after a war for oil has depleted the world's petroleum supplies. An outlaw army under Read More

1982
Goodbye Pork Pie

Actors: Kelly Johnson, Tony Barry, Claire Oberman, Shirley Gruar

Synopsis: This innocuous New Zealand-filmed "road" movie is buoyed by engaging performances and superb cinematography. The protagonists are young friends Gerry (Kelly Johnson) and Shirl (Claire Oberman) and their much-older travelling companion John (Tony Barry). The trio steals a car and hits the road. Read More

1981
Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr

Synopsis: Actor David Hemmings made one of his periodic forays into directing with the lightning-paced Race For the Yankee Zephyr. The film pits deer hunters against a group of unscrupulous businessmen. Their mutual goal is a reserve of gold, hidden somewhere in the Australian wilds. Ken Wahl and Leslie Ann Warren Read More

1981
Smash Palace

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bruno Lawrence, Anna Jemison, Greer Robson, Keith Aberdein

Synopsis: A key entry in the "renaissance" of the New Zealand film industry, Smash Palace stars Bruno Lawrence as an ex-racing champ. Returning home to take over his late father's business, Lawrence finds that his sophisticated European wife Anna Jemison is bored beyond measure at her new existence. She Read More

1981
Beyond Reasonable Doubt

Actors: David Hemmings, John Hargreaves, Martyn Sanderson, Grant Tilly, Diana Rowan

Synopsis: Beyond Reasonable Doubt is a true story of New Zealand justice gone awry. A married couple named Crewe is murdered, and Arthur Allen Thomas (John Hargreaves) is charged with the crime. Given a scrupulously fair trial, the innocent Thomas is found guilty on circumstantial evidence. Later on, it is Read More

1980