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Ken Blackburn is a Actor Néo-Zélandais born on 6 june 1935 at Bristol (United-kingdom)

Ken Blackburn

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Nationality Nouvelle zelande
Birth 6 june 1935 (89 years) at Bristol (United-kingdom)

Ken Blackburn, ONZM (born 1935) is a New Zealand actor and writer. He has worked in film, television, radio and theatre in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia since the 1970s.

Blackburn was born in Bristol, United Kingdom, and completed his education in New Zealand. In an acting career dominated by New Zealand productions, he is best known internationally for his roles in Xena: Warrior Princess and Farscape. In New Zealand he is remembered as the boss in popular Roger Hall sitcom Gliding On. Blackburn's other screen roles include breakthrough kidult series Hunter's Gold, and 'baddy' roles on New Zealand's longest-running soap operas: Close to Home and Shortland Street. He also had a starring role in 1978 feature Skin Deep, playing a local identity who encourages the gym in his town to employ a city masseuse in a bid to improve the town's image.

Blackburn has an extensive career as a theatrical performer; in 1999 his performance as Vladimir in Waiting for Godot earned him the Best Actor award at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. He was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

In 1991, the BBC published Blackburn's book Blitz Kids, about the Bristol Blitz.

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Filmography of Ken Blackburn (7 films)

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Actor

Slow West
Slow West (2015)
, 1h24
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Mendelsohn, Jeffrey Thomas, Caren Pistorius, Brooke Williams
Roles Josh McKenzie
Rating68% 3.447843.447843.447843.447843.44784
Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a highland born Scottish boy, travels to the United States to search for his love, Rose Ross (Caren Pistorius). He runs into a group of men who chase and attempt to kill a Native American. Jay is briefly interrogated by the men until a bounty hunter Silas Selleck (Michael Fassbender) arrives and kills the leader. Soon after, Jay pays the bounty hunter for protection as he searches for Rose, to which Silas agrees.
Sunset Song
Sunset Song (2015)
, 2h15
Directed by Terence Davies
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie, Ken Blackburn, Hugh Ross, Stuart Bowman
Roles Galt
Rating63% 3.197183.197183.197183.197183.19718
The film tells the story of an Aberdeenshire farm girl Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn) as she searches for her independence against the odds in an epic rites of passage story set just before the Great War. The film features Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie and was shot in New Zealand, Luxembourg and Scotland. Produced by Iris Productions, SellOut Pictures and Hurricane Films and backed by BFI, Creative Scotland, BBC Scotland and Luxembourg Film Fund.
The Rainbow Warrior
The Rainbow Warrior (1997)

Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sam Neill, Jon Voight, Lucy Lawless, Kerry Fox, Bruno Lawrence, Peter Hambleton
Roles Gerard Curry
Rating55% 2.760642.760642.760642.760642.76064
Film is based on the true story of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, which was bombed in Auckland harbour on 10 July 1985, when it was preparing for a Pacific voyage to protest French nuclear testing. The film chronicles the police investigation to discover what happened to the ship and who was responsible.
The Frighteners
The Frighteners (1996)
, 1h50
Directed by Peter Jackson
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Dee Wallace, Jeffrey Combs
Roles Dr. Kamins
Rating70% 3.5482553.5482553.5482553.5482553.548255
In 1990, architect Frank Bannister loses his wife Debra in a car accident. He gives up his profession, letting his unfinished "dream house" sit incomplete for years. Following the accident, Frank gains the power to see ghosts and befriends three: 1970s gangster Cyrus, 1950s nerd Stuart, and the Judge, a gunslinger from the Old West. The ghosts haunt houses in the area to generate work for Frank's ghostbusting business; Frank then "exorcises" the houses for a fee. Most locals see him as a con man.
Bad Blood
Bad Blood (1982)
, 1h45
Directed by Mike Newell
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jack Thompson, Carol Burns, Denis Lill, Marshall Napier, Bruce Allpress, John Bach
Rating64% 3.244153.244153.244153.244153.24415
In October 1941, Stan Graham, a Westland smallholder, develops a persecution complex and starts to threaten his neighbours. They put up with it for a while but things become intolerable. One day a party of four policemen arrive to confiscate his firearms. This causes a flashpoint for him - he loves his guns and is not going to hand them over. He shoots all the cops and, in the ensuing altercations, three more locals before heading to the hills. A manhunt composed of police, army and homeguard is organised and delivers Graham's come-uppance. Based upon a true event that happened around the present community of Kowhitirangi, out of Hokitika.
Pictures
Pictures (1981)
, 1h27
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Helen Moulder, Terence Bayler, John Callen, Ken Blackburn
Roles James Gilchrist
Rating53% 2.659832.659832.659832.659832.65983