Peter Hambleton
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Peter Hambleton is a New Zealand stage, film and television actor, and stage director. Well known in the Wellington
theatre scene, he has played ornithologist Walter Buller
in the 2006 play Dr Buller's Birds and Charles Darwin
in the 2009 play Collapsing Creation. He has been cast as the Dwarf Glóin in the upcoming
The Hobbit film.
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
theatre scene, he has played ornithologist Walter Buller
Walter Buller
Walter Lawry Buller KCMG was a New Zealand lawyer, naturalist and ornithologist.Buller was the author of A History of the Birds of New Zealand , with illustrations by John Gerrard Keulemans. In 1882 he produced the Manual of the Birds of New Zealand as a cheaper, popular alternative...
in the 2006 play Dr Buller's Birds and Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
in the 2009 play Collapsing Creation. He has been cast as the Dwarf Glóin in the upcoming
The Hobbit film.
Films
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Glóin | |
| 2013 | The Hobbit: There And Back Again |