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Alistair Browning

Actor

Alistair Browning added to an impressive haul of theatre awards when he appeared in acclaimed 2001 movie Rain. Browning won an NZ Screen Award for his role as the nice guy husband whose wife (Sarah Peirse) is drifting away from him. Browning's long screen CV also included police inspector Mike O'Leary in TV movie Siege, a slimy reality TV host in 2006 movie Futile Attraction, and roles in hit soap Gloss and acclaimed short film Us. Elsewhere he played everyone from Sir Lancelot to George Washington, to a drug-dealing band manager (in TV movie Undercover). Browning passed away from cancer on 2 June 2019. He was 65. 

[Alistair Browning] exudes a decency so simple and helpless that his key line, "I'm a failure", is a moment of pure heartbreak. Peter Calder, in an NZ Herald review of movie Rain, October 2001

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In Memoriam 2019

2019, Subject - Television

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Mahana

2016, Golden Shears presenter - Film

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West of Eden

2016, As: Lionel McKinley - Film

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Westside

2016, As: Dieter - Television

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When We Go to War - First Episode (excerpt)

2015, As: Sir Henry Penrose - Television

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Shopping

2013, As: Terry (dad) - Film

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Siege

2012, As: Inspector Mike O'Leary - Television

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Bliss: The Beginning of Katherine Mansfield

2011, As: Rudolf Young - Television

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Futile Attraction

2005, As: Dudley Earnsworth (the presenter), As: Voice of Mr Collins - Film

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Luella Miller

2005, As: Craig - Film

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Fracture

2004, As: Gordon Peet - Film

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003, As: Damrod - Film

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Rain

2001, As: Ed - Film

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Spin Doctors

2001, As: Peter - Television

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Street Legal

2002, As: Professor Adrian Dunstan - Television

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Jackson's Wharf

1999 - 2000, As: Craig Royal - Television

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William Shatner's A Twist in the Tale

1998, As: Lancelot Dulac - Television

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William Shatner's A Twist in the Tale: Obsession in August

1998, As: Uncle Lance - Television

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Duggan: Sins of the Fathers

1998, As: Simon Doyle - Television

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Riding High

1995, As: Max Townsend - Television

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Riding High - First Episode

1995, As: Max - Television

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Shortland Street

1992, 2001, 2014, As: Barry Harrison, Felix Bentley, Colin Adams - Television

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Marlin Bay

1992 - 1994, As: Paul Richmond - Television

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Homeward Bound

1992, As: Dr McIntyre - Television

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One Man's Meat

1991, As: James - Short Film

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Undercover

1991, As: Eddie Jackson - Television

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Shark in the Park

1990, As: Steven Long - Television

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The Champion

1989, As: Constable Forbes - Television

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Gloss

1989, As: Paul Harper - Television

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Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

1983, As: Karl De Jong - Film