Paul Gittins

Acting

Paul Gittins

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 …

Known For

Ike: Countdown to D-DayIke: Countdown to D-Day · 2004
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
6.52004
MovieDramaWar
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.
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in AmericaFatal Contact: Bird Flu in America · 2006
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America
5.92006
MovieActionDrama
An outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human.
Ready to RunReady to Run · 2000
Ready to Run
6.42000
MovieFamilyTV Movie
A 14-year-old girl who works at a racetrack trains a talking racehorse with issues, transforming him into a winner.
After the WaterfallAfter the Waterfall · 2010
After the Waterfall
6.12010
MovieDrama
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.
Amazon HighAmazon High · 1997
Amazon High
4.01997
MovieFantasyDrama
A high school teenager wakes up in a time of Amazons and Gods.
Other HalvesOther Halves · 1984
Other Halves
7.71984
MovieDrama
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.
ExposureExposure · 2001
Exposure
4.62001
MovieThrillerRomance
A photographer's life becomes dangerous when one of his models is murdered.
Safe HouseSafe House · 2012
Safe House
6.32012
MovieCrimeDrama
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

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AdventurerAdventurer · 1987
Adventurer
1987
SeriesAction & Adventure
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.

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