PeterHawes
- Writer
- Presenter
A proud son of the West Coast, Peter Hawes was a fixture on New Zealand television in the late 70s and early 80s. After writing for A Week of It, he presented Yours for the Asking, giving free rein to his irreverent wit and fondness for wordplay as he answered viewer questions. Hawes also wrote extensively for the theatre and authored a number of well-received novels. Hawes passed away on 29 October 2018.
Screenography
Biography
Peter Hawes was a man of many parts — playwright, novelist and columnist, actor, presenter and raconteur — but all of these roles reflected a passion for words and language, and a razor-sharp wit.
Hawes was born in Westport in 1947, the son of a miner and rugby league player. When he was four, his father signed to play in Yorkshire and the family spent four years in Bradford (where Peter Sutcliffe, later the Yorkshire Ripper, was one of his playmates).
Awards
2011 Aotearoa Film and Television Awards
Best Performance in a Short Film: for Bird
“Hawes as a performer tends to get love him or hate him reactions. He’s the terror of the tortured pun, the maestro of the mangled metaphor ... Inspired moments haul him back from the edge of right over the top.”