Actor/director Murray Keane played a 60s teen in TV's Peppermint Twist, multiple roles in 90s sketch show Away Laughing, a soldier in Gallipoli film Chunuk Bair, and a zombie victim in Braindead. In the 90s he moved into directing, beginning with TV drama Jackson's Wharf. Keane has directed multiple episodes of Outrageous Fortune and Diplomatic Immunity, and co-created cross-cultural boy-racer drama Ride with the Devil (2007). He was nominated at the 2006 NZ Screen Awards for his work on police show Interrogation.
Keane promises verisimilitude, and that the stories have been taken from real life
– Jack Yan on the Keane-directed television show Ride with the Devil