IanMune (born 1941) is a New Zealand character actor and director.
One of his best-loved films is the 1992 'coming of age' drama "The End of the Golden Weather".
He featured in numerous New Zealand television dramas and was an 'additional second unit director', as well as playing the part of Bounder in the film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Ian Barry Mune (born 1941) is a New Zealand character actor and director.
One of his best-loved films is the 1992 'coming of age' drama "The End of the Golden Weather".
He featured in numerous New Zealand television dramas and was an 'additional second unit director', as well as playing the part of Bounder in the film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
IanMune is an elder statesman of the New Zealand film industry.
Born in 1941 in Auckland, the dramatist, scriptwriter, director and actor has been on the credits of countless classics, from Sleeping Dogs to Once Were Warriors.
He decided to take up acting at 19, in an age where there was no local television or cinema.
Biography: IanMune, the director and co-writer of Came a Hot Friday, a spirited adaptation of a novel by the late Ronald Hugh Morrieson (an author much cherished in quarters of his native New Zealand), knows what he is about.
Born in Auckland in 1941, he has been variously an actor, dramatist, mask-maker (for the Welsh Theatre Company), scriptwriter and director.
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IanMune teaching Level 2 and Masters class now at Studio 111.
IanMune's master class weekend workshop July 2005
The Studio 111 Tsunami Fundraising Day on Sunday 09 January 2005 was an outstanding success with a grand total of $3530 cash + truckloads of goodies contributed to the Red Cross Boxing Day Tsunami fund.
He has also worked teaching Playback Theatre in community and aid contexts--specifically Kiribati in the central Pacific and with New Zealand’s only mixed ability dance company.
Major professional productions include: King Lear with IanMune, which toured nationally and was seen by over 17 000 people.
Also Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Cyrano de Bergerac, and The Revengers Tragedy.
