Testing NZ Fame

peter cook... got shot by a pirate

Originally posted by Tirau Dan
Can anyone from the Northern Hemisphere who doesn't have immediate Kiwi connections name any famous New Zealanders.
Please don't use search engines.. this is just a straw poll.
I'm particularly interested in entertainers/ musos or even bands etc.

Originally posted by Tirau Dan
Crowded House was the biggest.. they were Aussie but Kiwi Neil Finn (ex Split Ends) joined them wrote the songs and lead the group to stardom.

Has anyone heard of a crooner called John Rowles who played the big clubs in Vegas and Honalulu?

Some may know Sam Neill the actor.

Did anyone watch a movie called Whale Rider up there?

We are doing ...[text shortened]... f kiwi talent.. but I never met any family or friends in Uk that had heard of anyone.. curious?

Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
The film director Peter Jackson is the only one I can think of.

Ernest Rutherford - father of atomic physics
Sir Edmund Hilary - one of the first two to climb everest
Zane Lowe - that MTV guy

Originally posted by lausey
Have you seen the films "Bad Taste" and "Braindead"?

A little different from "Lord Of The Rings", although still entertaining. 🙂

Originally posted by Tirau Dan
Can anyone from the Northern Hemisphere who doesn't have immediate Kiwi connections name any famous New Zealanders.
Please don't use search engines.. this is just a straw poll.
I'm particularly interested in entertainers/ musos or even bands etc.

Prompting here
has anyone at all outside NZ and Aussie heard of:
Golden Horse.. pop band
Shihad..metal band touring the states..supposedly
The Datsuns ...Rock band doing the world circuit
Split Endz.. era 70-90 pre crowded house
Haley Westenra... popera star sang for queen
Dame Kiri TeKanawa opera
Dame Malvina Major opera
Jane Campion movie director Aussie based
Anna Paquin oscar winner ..The Piano directed by Jane Campion
Keith Urbahn.. country star
or
The Galloping Gourmet Graeme Kerr
Dame Ngaio Marsh. author
Katherine Mansfield author

Originally posted by Tirau Dan
Split Endz.. era 70-90 pre crowded house
Dame Kiri TeKanawa opera
Jane Campion movie director Aussie based
Anna Paquin oscar winner ..The Piano directed by Jane Campion
Dame Ngaio Marsh. author
Katherine Mansfield author

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Yes.

I think The Chills were from New Zealand too?

Once Were Warriors must have been mentioned already...

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Yes.

I think The Chills were from New Zealand too?

Once Were Warriors must have been mentioned already...

Originally posted by pootstick
peter cook... got shot by a pirate

Originally posted by pootstick
sorry, peter blake i meant. cook was some other sailor

Originally posted by Tirau Dan
Prompting here
has anyone at all outside NZ and Aussie heard of:
Golden Horse.. pop band
Shihad..metal band touring the states..supposedly
The Datsuns ...Rock band doing the world circuit
Split Endz.. era 70-90 pre crowded house
Haley Westenra... popera star sang for queen
Dame Kiri TeKanawa opera
Dame Malvina Major opera
Jane Campion movie director Aussie based
Anna Paquin oscar winner ..The Piano directed by Jane Campion
Keith Urbahn.. country star
or
The Galloping Gourmet Graeme Kerr
Dame Ngaio Marsh. author
Katherine Mansfield author

i've heard of anna panquin and seen her movie, and heard of dame ngaio marsh.

i remember the Galloping Gourmet but his wikipedia page says "Kerr regards himself as a Scot, but grew up in England where his parents were established hoteliers. As a result, much of his childhood was spent amongst some of the most outstanding chefs of Europe. Educated at Brighton College, he became trainee manager at the Roebuck Hotel in East Sussex, England aged just fifteen. After five years in the British Army as catering adviser, Graham became General Manager of England's Royal Ascot Hotel.

He moved to New Zealand, in 1958, becoming chief chef catering adviser for the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
".