14 Facts About Ian Mune

Sir Ian Barry Mune was born on 1941 and is a New Zealand character actor, director, and screenwriter.

Ian Mune's screen acting career spans four decades and more than 50 roles.

Ian Mune was married to the writer Josie Mune until her death in 2015.

Ian Mune acted on stage while training to be a teacher in Wellington.

In 1994, Ian Mune won another New Zealand television award after playing Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon in television mini-series Fallout, which depicted the end of the Muldoon-led National Government.

Ian Mune featured in a documentary about the making of Shakespeare's King Lear called In The Shadow of King Lear by New Zealand company Theatre at Large giving insight into his acting process.

Ian Mune has gone on to appear in a range of New Zealand feature films, including A Song of Good, Savage Honeymoon and I'm Not Harry Jenson.

Ian Mune played Winston Churchill in American telemovie Ike: Countdown to D-Day, and Buster Keaton in Lucy: The Lucille Ball Story.

Ian Mune took multiple creative roles on 1976 anthology series Winners and Losers, which saw him collaborating with director Roger Donaldson.

Ian Mune won further acclaim in 1991 for directing 'coming of age' drama The End of the Golden Weather, an adaptation of parts of Bruce Mason's classic one-man play.

Ian Mune spent a number of years developing this passion project and seeking finance, working with Mason on the project before Mason died.

Ian Mune was one of a large team of second unit directors on Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lord of the Rings and played a small cameo in the first film.

In 2008 Ian Mune directed depression-era telefeature movie Life's A Riot.

Ian Mune had a cameo role as a judge, after the actor cast in the role did not show up.