Ian Mune
Ian Barry Mune (born 1941) is a New Zealand character actor, director, and screenwriter. His screen acting career spans four decades and more than 50 roles. His work as a film director includes hit comedy "Came a Hot Friday", an adaptation of classic New Zealand play "The End of the Golden Weather", and "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?", the sequel to "Once Were Warriors". Early life and family. 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. Acting. 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". In 1987 he appeared in the TVNZ documentary mini-series "" for which he won the award for Best Male in a Dramatic Role. 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. He has gone on to appear in a range of New Zealand feature films, including "A Song of Good", "Savage Honeymoon" and "I'm Not Harry Jenson". He played Winston Churchill in American telemovie "", and Buster Keaton in "". Mune was a support role in the Australian drama "Wanted", opposite Rebecca Gibney and Robyn Malcolm that premiered in  2016. Directing and writing. 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", Mune also appeared on-screen alongside its star, Sam Neill. Mune's other writing credits include adapting classic Ian Cross novel "The God Boy" into a well-regarded telemovie, the movie version of children's fable "The Silent One", and co-writing "Goodbye Pork  Pie", the first New Zealand feature to win large audiences in its home country. In 1985 he made his feature debut as a director with hit comedy "Came a Hot Friday". Based around the escapades of two smalltown conmen in 50s era New Zealand, the film is based on the novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson. Mune won further acclaim in 1991 for directing 'coming of age' drama "The End of the Golden Weather", an adaptation of parts of 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?" won nine of its 13 New Zealand Film Award nominations in 1999. The film is the sequel to hard-edged drama "Once Were Warriors", which became New Zealand's most successful feature film soon after release. It remains Mune's biggest commercial success to date. Mune's other directorial projects include a feature-length documentary on comedian (and "Came a Hot Friday" actor) Billy T James, teenage drama "The Whole of the Moon", and UVF thriller "The Grasscutter". For television, he directed episodes of comedy series "Letter  to Blanchy" and anthology series "The Ray Bradbury Theater". He was one of a large team of second unit directors on Peter Jackson's adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" and played a small cameo in the 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.