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Paul Gittins

Paul Gittins

Acting

Biography

Paul is an award-winning actor and director with a career that spans well over 30 years. Having been on screens since the early 1980s, Paul has amassed an enormous list of television and film credits too long to list in its entirety. He is often recognized for his role as 'Dr. Michael Mckenna' - one of the original core cast members on New Zealand’s longest-running soap "Shortland Street." He has appeared in lead roles in New Zealand television movies "Strongman" and "Safehouse", along with supporting and guest roles in the films "Other Halves", "Beyond the Known World", "Cave In", "Maiden Voyage" and "After the Waterfall." Other recent television credits include drama series "Harry", web series "Flat 3" and "Jonah: The Untold Story."

Known For

Xena: Warrior Princess
7.6

Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied by her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy couple use their formidable fighting skills to help those who are unable to defend themselves.

Xena: Warrior Princess

1995
Power Rangers
7.1

A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters.

Power Rangers

1993
The Brokenwood Mysteries
7.6

In a seemingly quiet country town the newest resident, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location.

The Brokenwood Mysteries

2014
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
7.0

The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people.

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

1995
Shortland Street
5.3

The lives and loves of the residents of Ferndale.

Shortland Street

1992
Sweet Tooth
7.8

On a perilous adventure across a post-apocalyptic world, a lovable boy who's half-human and half-deer searches for a new beginning with a gruff protector.

Sweet Tooth

2021
After the Waterfall
6.1

A forest ranger is haunted by the disappearance of his four-year-old daughter, and the subsequent breakup of his marriage. He discovers that his ex-wife Ana is pregnant to the policeman in charge of his missing daughter's case.

After the Waterfall

2010
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America
5.9

An outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human.

Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America

2006
Riding High
8.3

Fifteen-year-old Wendy lives at Lindentree, a riding school and horse stud, with her parents Charles and Helen. Mad about horses and fiercely devoted to family and friends, Wendy's life primarily revolves around winning a place on the national junior show jumping team, and saving Lindentree from outside forces.

Riding High

1995
Adventurer
N/A

Jack Vincent, an aristocrat forced by circumstances to become a smuggler, is caught and transported on the IIMS Success to a penal colony on Norfolk Island, off the New Zealand coast. Unhappily for Vincent, the ship's captain is none other than his brother-in-law, Lt.Harry Anderson. The two men have quarreled violently in the past over Anderson's treatment of Vincent's sister, and now Anderson subjects him to particularly harsh and humiliating treatment. Vincent stages a successful mutiny, casting Anderson and those loyal to him adrift, and plans to sail to America. When the Success is shipwrecked, Vincent is one of three survivors; but Anderson also survives the storm, and vows to pursue Vincent until he sees him hanged at Execution Dock. So begins a fight for survival for Vincent and his crew, complete with hostile natives, unscrupulous sea-traders, crazed prophets and buried treasure.

Adventurer

1987
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
6.6

The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy.

Ike: Countdown to D-Day

2004
The Boy from Andromeda
7.2

On a holiday to Mt Tarawera, teenager Jenny finds an odd shard of metal. In this third episode of the kids sci-fi series she meets its owner: 'Drom' — a survivor of an alien mission to deactivate a planet-annihilating space gun (aka Tarawera itself). They find themselves under siege from a Predator-like 'Guardian' of the gun. If Drom and Jenny and local kids Tessa and Lloyd can't defeat the mechanoid, catastrophe is imminent! The South Pacific Pictures series found international sales and cult repute.

The Boy from Andromeda

1991
Erebus: The Aftermath
8.0

A four-part miniseries about Air New Zealand Flight 901, which crashed in Antarctica in 1979.

Erebus: The Aftermath

1987
Other Halves
7.7

A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and he for habitual crime. A friendship grows between them such that she offers him a place to stay upon his release. However, difficulties arise with his continued criminal activities and dependence on her for support - then his gang moves in with them. The film is based upon Sue McCauley's award winning autobiographical novel.

Other Halves

1984
Amazon High
4.0

A high school teenager wakes up in a time of Amazons and Gods.

Amazon High

1997
Ready to Run
6.4

A 14-year-old girl who works at a racetrack trains a talking racehorse with issues, transforming him into a winner.

Ready to Run

2000
Exposure
4.6

A photographer's life becomes dangerous when one of his models is murdered.

Exposure

2001
Safe House
5.0

Safe House is the story of a struggle for survival in an unfamiliar and threatening world, based on the true life experience of a woman in the early days of the witness protection programme in New Zealand. TV Movie

Safe House

2012
The Whole of the Moon
7.5

When Kirk, a top roller-blader, discovers that he has bone cancer in his leg, his pleasant affluent life is shattered. Even though amputation provides the best chance for survival; to him, losing skating means the end of life. His friends cannot cope with his condition, but his hospital isolation is relieved by Marty - a street kid survivor who was found dying of leukemia. Marty bullies, taunts, and challenges Kirk, until he begins to climb out of his depression. Marty seems afraid of nothing and, knowing she will die, wants to experience everything.

The Whole of the Moon

1996
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3.3

Andy’s friends confront both their own mortality and the deadly new disease stalking their community, while his conservative family grapples with never having come to terms with his sexuality.

A Death in the Family

1987