Michael Hurst

Michael Hurst

Birthday: 1957-09-20

Place of Birth: Lancashire, England, UK

Biography: Michael Eric Hurst, ONZM (born 20 September 1957) is a New Zealand actor, director and writer, mostly on stage and television. He is probably best known internationally for playing Iolaus in the television programs Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and companion series Xena: Warrior Princess. Most recently, he is known for directing Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Ash vs. Evil Dead, 800 Words, and Westside. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Hurst, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

The Map Reader
The Map Reader

Small-town New Zealand comedy-drama about Michael (Jordan Selwyn) - a 16-year-old whose passion for ...

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Bitch Slap
Bitch Slap

Three bad girls - a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer, and a corporate powerbroker - arri...

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The Tattooist
The Tattooist

American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer wanders the world, exploring and exploiting ethnic themes in his ...

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Hercules and the Amazon Women
Hercules and the Amazon Women

Hercules and Iolaus take time out from Iolaus' wedding preparations, to help a distant village under...

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Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur
Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur

Hercules has settled down with his wife and children, but misses the good old days traveling around ...

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Mysterious Ways
Mysterious Ways

Choosing between the love of a good man and the love of God is a tough call especially for vicar Pet...

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Hercules in the Underworld
Hercules in the Underworld

When villagers begin disappearing it is discovered that they had fallen through a crack in the earth...

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Death Warmed Up
Death Warmed Up

A kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a grown ...

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A Moment Passing
A Moment Passing

A fisherman is swept into the sea by a freak wave. He desperately fights for his life only to find h...

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Fracture
Fracture

A young solo mother loves her son and his needs are formost, but she still has room in her heart for...

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Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus
Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus

Mighty Zeus brings Hercules' mother, Alcmene, to Mount Olympus, and Hercules, believing she has been...

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Desperate Remedies
Desperate Remedies

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Br...

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Young Hercules
Young Hercules

At an academy for mythological warriors, 17-year-old Hercules meets Jason, the next in line to rule ...

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Dangerous Orphans
Dangerous Orphans

Three orphaned boys - O'Malley, Rossi and Moir - become blood brothers. When they grow up, they plo...

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We're Here to Help
We're Here to Help

A Kafkaesque docudrama of an actual case involving a Christchurch small businessman and the New Zeal...

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I'll Make You Happy
I'll Make You Happy

Siggy (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is a teenage "bad girl" who lives and works in a red-light district of...

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Princess of Chaos
Princess of Chaos

Days after Auckland's mayor wins re-election, a blogger reveals an affair between Len Brown and Beva...

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The Last Magic Show
The Last Magic Show

An emotionally traumatized stage magician has "escaped" into a fantasy world where he has real magic...

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The Footstep Man
The Footstep Man

Sam is a sound technician, who must literally walk in the footsteps of the characters on the screen....

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Treasure Island Kids: The Monster of Treasure Island
Treasure Island Kids: The Monster of Treasure Island

Part two of the Treasure Island Kids Series follows Charlie, a rebellious teenager sent to summer ca...

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Art That Moves: The Work of Len Lye
Art That Moves: The Work of Len Lye

Len Lye (1901-1980) was a pioneer of experimental animation, and also of kinetic sculpture. This sho...

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The Bar
The Bar

In The Bar, a who's who of the 1990s Kiwi acting community play punters at an Auckland bar. Director...

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View from Olympus
View from Olympus

Documentary from Geoffrey Cawthorn...

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Project: Assassin
Project: Assassin

Big brother is watching you out of the dark. He might be in your room, he might be in your head, he ...

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Hercules & Xena: Wizards of the Screen
Hercules & Xena: Wizards of the Screen

Members of the audience fight against stage performers set to a specially created Xena/Hercules movi...

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Typhon's People
Typhon's People

A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is as...

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Dead
Dead

Dane ‘Marbles’ Marbeck can see ghosts, thanks to a homemade drug: his late father’s neurological med...

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Love Mussel
Love Mussel

In this mockumentary, Kevin Smith plays himself covering the story of a New Zealand town after the d...

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Highwater
Highwater

A big-city director working in advertising discovers a better life in small-town New Zealand....

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Northspur
Northspur

In a violent, post-pandemic world, a peace-loving man is forced on a desperate journey to find life-...

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Birthright
Birthright

It’s every adult’s worst nightmare: moving back in with their parents. Having done just that, a down...

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Our Party
Our Party

Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party is modernised in this contemplative short, following teenage ...

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Constance
Constance

Constance is a bored, movie-loving schoolteacher in post-WW2 New Zealand who begins to fantasize tha...

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