Peter Hambleton (born 1960) is a New Zealand stage, film and television actor, and stage director. Hambleton graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 1982 with a Diploma in Acting. In 2002 Hambleton was a New Zealand Shakespeare’s Globe International Actors’ Fellow. Well known in the

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theatre scene, he has played ornithologist

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in the 2006 play ''Dr Buller's Birds'' and

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in the 2009 play ''Collapsing Creation''. He played the Dwarf Glóin in ''

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'' film series and Mike Johnson in an episode of the 1999 TV miniseries '' A Twist in the Tale.'' He has also featured in television advertisements, including as the businessman in the Ansett New Zealand "Fluffy" advertisement.

Filmography

Films

Television

Theatre

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hambleton, Peter New Zealand male stage actors New Zealand male film actors New Zealand male television actors Living people 1960 births 21st-century New Zealand male actors Toi Whakaari alumni