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Sir Ian Mune
Mune in 2024
Born
Ian Barry Mune
Occupation(s ) Film director , actorSpouse Josie Pauline Rockel (d. 2015)
Sir Ian Barry Mune KNZM OBE [1] Came a Hot Friday The End of the Golden Weather What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? Once Were Warriors
Early life and family [ edit ]
Mune was born in Auckland , and educated at Wesley College in the same city. He was married to the writer Josie Mune until her death in 2015.[2]
Mune acted on stage while training to be a teacher in Wellington. After time acting in the UK, he returned to his native New Zealand and won a Feltex award in 1975 after starring in one-off television drama Derek . Another award followed for playing Leo Moynihan, the secretary of a trade union in television series Moynihan Erebus: The Aftermath
In 1994 Mune won another New Zealand television award after playing Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon in television mini-series Fallout , which depicted the end of the Muldoon-led National Government .
Mune featured in a documentary about the making of Shakespeare's King Lear called In The Shadow of King Lear by New Zealand company Theatre at Large giving insight into his acting process.[3]
He has gone on to appear in a range of New Zealand feature films, including A Song of Good , Savage Honeymoon I'm Not Harry Jenson . He played Winston Churchill in American telemovie Ike: Countdown to D-Day Buster Keaton in Lucy: The Lucille Ball Story
Mune was a support role in the Australian drama Wanted Rebecca Gibney and Robyn Malcolm that premiered in 2016.[4]
Directing and writing [ edit ]
Mune took multiple creative roles on 1976 anthology series Winners and Losers , which saw him collaborating with director Roger Donaldson . The two first collaborated on Derek ; Mune directed and wrote some episodes of the new series, and acted in others. Having helped script Donaldson's first feature film, dystopian thriller Sleeping Dogs Sam Neill .
Mune's other writing credits include adapting classic Ian Cross novel The God Boy The Silent One ,[5] Goodbye Pork Pie
In 1985 he made his feature debut as a director with hit comedy Came a Hot Friday Ronald Hugh Morrieson .
Mune won further acclaim in 1991 for directing 'coming of age' drama The End of the Golden Weather Bruce Mason 's classic one-man play . Mune spent a number of years developing this passion project and seeking finance, working with Mason on the project before Mason died.
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? New Zealand Film Award nominations in 1999. The film is the sequel to hard-edged drama Once Were Warriors
Mune's other directorial projects include a feature-length documentary on comedian (and Came a Hot Friday Billy T James , teenage drama The Whole of the Moon UVF thriller The Grasscutter Letter to Blanchy The Ray Bradbury Theater Peter Jackson 's adaptation of The Lord of the Rings first film .
In 2008 Mune directed depression-era telefeature movie Life's A Riot . Mune also had a cameo role as a judge, after the actor cast in the role did not show up.
Mune: An Autobiography was published in 2010.[6]
Honours, awards and nominations [ edit ]
2008 – Qantas Film and Television Awards - Nominated for Best Supporting Actor - Film: for A Song of Good
2000 – Qantas Film and Television Awards - Rudall Hayward Award
1999 – Nokia New Zealand Film Awards - Best Director: for What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
1998 – TV Guide Television Awards - Best Actor: for Home Movie
1996 – TV Guide New Zealand Film and Television Awards - Best Screenplay - Film (shared with Richard Lymposs): for The Whole of the Moon
1996 – TV Guide New Zealand Film and Television Awards -Best Supporting Actor - Television: for Cover Story , episode 3
1996 – Giffoni International Film Festival (Children's Film Festival, Italy) - First Prize (Golden Gryphon): The Whole of the Moon
1995 – New Zealand Film and Television Awards - Best Actor - Television: for Fallout
1993 – CableAce Awards (United States) - Best Directing for a Dramatic Series: for The Ray Bradbury Theatre , 'Great Wide World Over There' episode
1993 – Young Artist Awards (United States) - Outstanding Foreign Film: The End of the Golden Weather
1992 – New Zealand Film Awards - Best Film: The End of the Golden Weather
1992 – New Zealand Film Awards - Best Director: for The End of the Golden Weather
1992 – Giffoni International Film Festival - First Prize (Golden Gryphon): The End of the Golden Weather
1991 – Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire , for services to film and theatre, in the 1991 New Year Honours [7]
1988 – Listener Film and Television Awards - Best Male Performance in a Dramatic Role - Television: for Erebus: The Aftermath
1986 – National Mutual GOFTA Awards - Best Film: Came a Hot Friday
1986 – National Mutual GOFTA Awards - Best Director - Film: for Came a Hot Friday
1986 – National Mutual GOFTA Awards - Best Screenplay Adaptation - Film (shared with Dean Parker): for Came a Hot Friday
1981 – Feltex Television Awards (New Zealand) - Best Script (with John Banas): for Little Big Man Takes a Shot at the Moon
1979 – Feltex Television Awards - Best Drama: The Mad Dog Gang Meets Rotten Fred and Ratsguts
1977 – Feltex Television Awards - Best Actor: for Winners and Losers Moynihan
1977 – Feltex Television Awards - Best Script: The God Boy
1976 – Feltex Television Awards - Best Script (shared with Peter Hansard): for The Woman at the Store
1976 – Feltex Television Awards - Nominated for Best Actor: The Woman at the Store
1975 – Feltex Television Awards - Best Drama: Derek
1975 – Feltex Television Awards - Best Actor: for Derek
In the 2024 New Year Honours , Mune was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit , for services to film, television and theatre.[8]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ "In the Shadow of King Lear | Television | NZ On Screen" . NZ On Screen . Retrieved 4 May 2020 .
^ Wanted (TV Series 2016– ) - IMDb , retrieved 4 May 2020
^ "The Silent One" . NZ On Screen . Retrieved 17 February 2016 .
^ Mune, Ian (2010). Mune: An Autobiography . Potton & Burton . p. 328. ISBN 978-1877517334
^ "No. 52383" . The London Gazette
^ "New Year Honours 2024: the full list" . The New Zealand Herald . Retrieved 30 December 2023 .
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