Jim Moriarty
James Moriarty MNZM is a New Zealand actor and theatre director, who began acting professionally in 1967. He came to national attention and is probably best known for his role as the school teacher Riki Winiata in the 1970s soap opera Close to Home. His work has toured nationally and internationally. Moriarty is from the Māori tribes of Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Koata and Ngāti Kahungunu.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5837 |
| Birthday | 1953-06-20 |
| Place of Birth | New Zealand |
| Also Known As | James Moriarty, |
1985
Kingpin
6.5/2
Willie, a likeable kid, forms a friendship with Rikki, a new arrival at the reform school. Willie discovers that Rikki is maybe tough enough to take...
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Kingpin
1980
Night of the Juggler
6.8/37
When a twisted psychotic kidnaps a young girl, mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy developer, her father, a hardened ex-cop, doggedly hunts th...
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Night of the Juggler
1999
A Difficult Woman
9/1
Anne (Caroline Goodall) is a successful pathologist for a top pharmaceutical corporation, and her life couldn't be better. That is, until one of her o...
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A Difficult Woman
1986
Mark II
6.5/1
Three Maori youths, bored with Auckland, head south in a restored Mark II Zephyr in search of something different. One of them is on the run from dr...
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Mark II
2009
No Petrol, No Diesel
5/1
A small town, on State Highway 1, where nothing ever happens...then Rex Devlin dies in a suspicious car wreck and a mysterious stranger moves into the...
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No Petrol, No Diesel
1998
Saving Grace
6.8/5
Grace is a homeless teenager. She befriends an unemployed carpenter and he invites her to share his flat. She moves in and to her surprise a delicate...
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Saving Grace
1990
The Returning
7.5/3
A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, a...
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The Returning
2006
The Waimate Conspiracy
7/1
The 2005 discovery of a cannonball, buried for 138 years in a paddock, throws Waimate into turmoil. It is all the Maori locals need to confirm their l...
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The Waimate Conspiracy
2016
Mahana
6.435/23
1960s, East Coast of New Zealand. Two Māori sheep-shearing families, the Mahanas and the Poatas, are longstanding enemies and commercial rivals. 14-ye...
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Mahana
2009
The Strength of Water
6/5
When a mysterious stranger arrives in their isolated coastal town, 10-year-old twins, Kimi and Melody are forced apart. Kimi must find the strength to...
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The Strength of Water
2007
Fog
0/0
Sixteen year old Ricky lives in a small fishing village with his parents. He dreams of leaving the town but is hindered by his father's expectations t...
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Fog
2018
The Gravedigger of Kapu
0/0
Hone is the last of the old time gravediggers. He links the living with the dead. He is the keeper of their secrets. Tana is Hone’s apprentice who res...
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The Gravedigger of Kapu
2010
The Witch & the Woodsman
0/0
A woodsman must rescue his young daughter from an evil witch.
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The Witch & the Woodsman
2021
Cousins
6.7/9
Connected by blood but separated by circumstances, three cousins spend a lifetime in search of each other.
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Cousins
2026
Uncle
0/0
When a man, quietly lost, suddenly finds himself caring for his best mate’s three-year-old son, a week of wandering, play and unexpected connection be...
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Uncle
2020
This Town
5.9/8
Five years after being acquitted for the murder of his family, Sean (White) is finally ready to move on with life. But the bitter ex-cop (Malcolm) who...
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