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HamishMcFarlane

  • Actor
  • Assistant director
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Hamish McFarlane's screen career began when he was only 11 — he won a NZ Film Award after starring as a boy on a quest for survival, in classic Vincent Ward fantasyThe Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey. After co-starring in kidult show Strangers and a few further screen roles, he moved behind the camera to be an assistant director. Since then he has worked on both TV and movies, including Super City and The Dead Lands.

Screenography

6 Days
2016 First Assistant Director Film
Down Under
2016 First Assistant Director Film
Westside
2015 - 2020 First Assistant Director Series
Ash vs Evil Dead
2015 - 2018 First Assistant Director Series
The Dead Lands
2014 First Assistant Director Film

Awards

1993 New Zealand Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Best Guest Performance: for Shortland Street

1989 Listener New Zealand Film Awards
Best Male Performance: for The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

 

“I just took it all as a joke, until we got down to the last eight. Then I was pretty determined...and at four, I'd have killed to get the part.”

— Hamish McFarlane on auditioning for The Navigator, in The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 November 1988

Related images

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The four members of secret society Zan-Em-Mor-kel get caught up in a story of magic and mystery in Strangers. Martin Henderson (top left) as Zane, Hamish McFarlane as Morgan, Sonia Pivac (bottom right) as Morgan's younger sister Kelsey and Amber McWilliams as Emma.
© TVNZ
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The four members of secret society Zan-Em-Mor-Kel investigate the robbers' getaway car, which has crashed into a gully, in 1989 TV series Strangers.
© TVNZ