Roger Donaldson

Curated by NZ On Screen team 34 items

A collection devoted to the career of director Roger Donaldson, including award-winning dramas, interviews, and lost gems.

34 items

The Collection /

Roger Donaldson

Curated by NZ On Screen team

Backgrounds

Rog - A Personal View

By Ian Mune on Roger Donaldson

Backing Up the Train - Memories of Smash Palace

By Keith Aberdein on Roger Donaldson

Gumption and Faith - The Work of Roger Donaldson

By Dominic Corry on Roger Donaldson

Profiles

Roger Donaldson

Director, Writer

Television

Derek

Television 1974

Coming Home - Roger Donaldson & Steve Millen

Television 1999

Sunday - The Cowboy and the Indian

Television 2004

Headliners - The World's Fastest Indian

Television 2004

Kaleidoscope - Roger Donaldson in Hollywood

Television 1985

Holmes - Roger Donaldson

Television 1999

Breakfast - Roger Donaldson on Photography

Television 2007

Jocko - Man with a Gun

Television 1981

Cape Horn for the Hell of It - Around Cape Horn

Television 1979

The Adventure World of Sir Edmund Hillary - The Kaipo Wall

Kaleidoscope - NZ Cinema, the Past Decade

Television 1987

Numero Bruno

Television 2000

One Network News - 2004 Cannes Film Festival

Television 2004

In Bligh's Wake

Television 1983

Rally - Like Little Boys in a Man-sized Sport

Television 1973

Film

The World's Fastest Indian

Shorts

Dream in the Making - The Making of Sleeping Dogs

Short film 1977

The Making of Sleeping Dogs

Short film 2004

The Making of Smash Palace

Short film 2004

Offerings to the God of Speed

Short film 1971

Interview

Roger Donaldson: Sleeping Dogs, Smash Palace, Hollywood, and more

Interview

Ian Mune and Roger Donaldson on Winners & Losers...

Series

Winners & Losers

Music

Sheba (She Sha She Shoo)

Music video 1983

Collection Gallery

Roger Donaldson during the filming of 1976 series Winners and Losers.

Stills Collection, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision. Courtesy of Roger Donaldson Collection

A behind the scenes shot taken during the filming of Winners & Losers episode Shining with the Shiner. From left to right, director Roger Donaldson, director/actor Ian Mune, sound recordist Craig McLeod, and cinematographer David Gribble.

Stills Collection, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision. Unknown donor

A photo taken during the making of Winners & Losers episode Shining with the Shiner. Cinematographer David Gribble (left) and co-director Roger Donaldson.

Stills Collection, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision. Unknown donor

Director Roger Donaldson and actor Sam Neill discuss their movie Sleeping Dogs, before the start of production.

Photo supplied by Roger Donaldson

Roger Donaldson clowns around (date unknown).

Stills Collection, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision. Courtesy of Roger Donaldson Collection

Director Roger Donaldson checks out the shot, during the filming of The World's Fastest Indian.

Kindly provided by The Post

A publicity shot taken for Winners & Losers episode Shining with the Shiner: The Shiner (Ivan Beavis, in check jacket) and the Honourable Mackay (Ian Mune, with fake eye) surrounded by their fellow swaggers. Actor Bernard Moody sits on the log at left, next to Harold Kissin, whose arm is resting on his leg.

Stills Collection, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision. Courtesy of Carol Mitcheson

Bill Morrison (Clyde Scott) and his son (Cass Donaldson) in Winners & Losers episode After the Depression.

Stills Collection, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision. Courtesy of Roger Donaldson Collection

Anne Flannery as The Woman at the Store. Niccola Holmes (née Sanderson) plays the mysterious girl.

Stills Collection, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision. Unknown donor

A behind the scenes photo taken in Auckland during the filming of Big Brother, Little Sister (part of 1976 series Winners & Losers). Cinematographer Roger Donaldson is in white trousers at the far left of frame.

Stills Collection, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision. Unknown donor

Sam Neill in a scene from Sleeping Dogs.

Photo appears courtesy of the NZ Film Commission

Smith (Sam Neill) in front of his new home in the Coromandel, in 1977 film Sleeping Dogs.

Photo appears courtesy of the NZ Film Commission

Smash Palace actors Greer Robson and Bruno Lawrence.

Kindly provided by Onfilm.

A rig used to film scenes for movie Smash Palace.

Kindly Provided by Onfilm.

Burt Munro in action, in Roger Donaldson's 2005 hit film The World's Fastest Indian.

Photo appears courtesy of the NZ Film Commission

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Roger Donaldson (left) chats with three key players from 1983 movie Constance: star Donogh Rees, producer Larry Parr and the film's director Bruce Morrison.

Kindly provided by Onfilm

Ian Mune in a scene from Sleeping Dogs.

Photo appears courtesy of the NZ Film Commission

A shot from children's adventure Nutcase: Master villain Evil Eva (Nevan Rowe) practises an arm extension, while her thuggish offsider Godzilla (Ian Watkin) holds her chair in the correct position.

Photo appears courtesy of the NZ Film Commission

The official poster for Smash Palace.

Photo appears courtesy of the NZ Film Commission

A shot from Roger Donaldson's 2017 feature documentary McLaren.

Image courtesy of General Film Corporation

Roger Donaldson in 1983.

Photographer: Martin Hunter. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post

Director Roger Donaldson with actor Anna Jemison (now Anna Maria Monticelli) in Auckland, at the 1982 Auckland premiere of Smash Palace.

Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.

Roger Donaldson

Backgrounds

Profiles

Television

Film

Shorts

Interview

Roger Donaldson: Sleeping Dogs, Smash Palace, Hollywood, and more

Ian Mune and Roger Donaldson on Winners & Losers...

Series

Winners & Losers

Music

Collection Gallery

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