Jim Moriarty
Birthday: 1953-06-20
Place of Birth: New Zealand
Biography: James Moriarty MNZM is a New Zealand actor and theatre director, who began acting professionally in 1967. He came to national attention and is probably best known for his role as the school teacher Riki Winiata in the 1970s soap opera Close to Home. His work has toured nationally and internationally. Moriarty is from the Māori tribes of Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Koata and Ngāti Kahungunu.
Movies
Kingpin
Willie, a likeable kid, forms a friendship with Rikki, a new arrival at the reform school. Willie d...
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Night of the Juggler
A tough, New York City ex-cop relentlessly searches for his kidnapped teenage daughter whom is held ...
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A Difficult Woman
Anne (Caroline Goodall) is a successful pathologist for a top pharmaceutical corporation, and her li...
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Mark II
Three Maori youths, bored with Auckland, head south in a restored Mark II Zephyr in search of somet...
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No Petrol, No Diesel
A small town, on State Highway 1, where nothing ever happens...then Rex Devlin dies in a suspicious ...
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Saving Grace
Grace is a homeless teenager. She befriends an unemployed carpenter and he invites her to share his ...
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The Returning
A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a ...
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The Waimate Conspiracy
The 2005 discovery of a cannonball, buried for 138 years in a paddock, throws Waimate into turmoil. ...
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Mahana
1960s, East Coast of New Zealand. Two Māori sheep-shearing families, the Mahanas and the Poatas, are...
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The Strength of Water
When a mysterious stranger arrives in their isolated coastal town, 10-year-old twins, Kimi and Melod...
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Fog
Sixteen year old Ricky lives in a small fishing village with his parents. He dreams of leaving the t...
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The Gravedigger of Kapu
Hone is the last of the old time gravediggers. He links the living with the dead. He is the keeper o...
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The Witch & the Woodsman
A woodsman must rescue his young daughter from an evil witch....
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Cousins
Connected by blood but separated by circumstances, three cousins spend a lifetime in search of each ...
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