Martyn Sanderson
Martyn Sanderson ( born February 24, 1938 in Granity, New Zealand, † 14 October, 2009 Otaki ) was a New Zealand actor, director and screenwriter.
Life
The stage actor Sanderson was one of the founding members of the 1964 Downstage Theatre in Wellington. In the 1970s he worked in the ensemble of Bruno Lawrence 's Electric Revelation and Travelling Apparition ( Blerta ). With this group of actors, musicians and other artists Bruno Lawrence was at the time on tour across New Zealand and the east coast of Australia along. The collaboration with the group, which also includes the director Geoff Murphy scored, several film productions such as Utu and game created Man.
As a film actor Sanderson was 1970, his debut in Tony Richardson's Portrait of the highwayman Ned Kelly with Mick Jagger in the title role. At the same time he worked together with various other members of the production crew as co- director, cinematographer and co-producer of the accompanying documentation A Stone in the Bush. Five years later he received for his interpretation of the aviation pioneer Richard Pearse in New Zealand TV movie of the same name the Feltex Award for Best Actor. In his 30 -year career Sanderson worked alongside Murphy and Lawrence also with various other well-known representatives of the New Zealand film industry together like Sam Neill in attack on the Rainbow Warrior and Jane Campion, under whose direction he starred in An Angel at My Table. For this illustration, he received the 1990 New Zealand Film and TV Awards as Best Supporting Actor. Even with internationally successful, realized in New Zealand productions he participated as in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship and the television series Hercules with Kevin Sorbo in the title role for which he played several characters from mythology such as Menelaus and Thespios. His recent films include the German drama The great love with Anna Loos.
In addition, Sanderson worked as a director for the Australian television and wrote as a screenplay writer templates for different TV movies and series episodes such as, inter alia, Skippy the bush kangaroo. One of his greatest achievements as a filmmaker was the technology based on the Samoan writer Albert Wendt Drama Fox on a Freedom Tree, for which he next directed also took over the screenplay, for which he was awarded in the same year at the Tokyo International Film Festival.