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AnzacWallace

  • Actor
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Anzac Wallace made one of the most memorable debuts in New Zealand cinema when he starred as avenging guerilla leader Te Wheke in classic Māori Western Utu. The former trade union delegate followed it with movies The Silent One (1984) and Mauri (1988) and pioneering Māori TV series E Tipu E Rea. He passed away on 8 April 2019. 

Screenography

In Memoriam 2019
2019 Subject Short film
Utu Redux
2013 As: Te Wheke Film
Bastion Point - The Untold Story
1999 Subject Television
Tales of the South Seas
1998 - 2000 Actor Series

Biography

Anzac Wallace was a trade union delegate when Geoff Murphy asked him to star as charismatic leader Te Wheke in Utu, the first feature about Māori-Pākehā historical conflict for three decades.

Awards

1990 New Zealand Film Awards
Nominated for Best Male Performance: for Mauri

“Anzac Wallace is magnificent as Te Wheke, whether leafing in fascination through Macbeth, rolling his tongue before beheading the parson, or singing his final waiata.”

— Nick Roddick reviewing Utu in the Monthly Film Bulletin, February 1985

Related images

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Anzac Wallace as Raniera in E Tipu E Rea - Te Moemoea.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
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Te Wheke (Anzac Wallace) and some followers on the bandwagon in a scene from Utu.
Kindly provided by Onfilm. Copyright: Victoria Ginn 
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A poster for the original 1983 release of Utu.
Photo appears courtesy of the NZ Film Commission
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Anzac Wallace as Te Wheke in Utu.
Kindly provided by Onfilm. Copyright: Victoria Ginn
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Anzac Wallace as Te Wheke.
Courtesy of Guy Robinson
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The poster for Utu Redux