Peter Hambleton
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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.


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