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To get more information, use the sites I use like the ones below. Simply find a movie or actor you want to see, go to one of the sites below and see if the film is playing in your area. mydigiguide.com, tv-now.com and IMDB.com

Note: These are films that are listed as being on TV THIS WEEK ONLY, this is NOT a list of all the films the cast has done

Cast List

  1. Viggo Mortensen

  2. Liv Tyler

  3. Ian Holm

  4. Sean Bean

  5. Ian Mune

  6. Martyn Sanderson

  7. David Weatherley

  8. Marton Csokas

  9. Taea Hartwell

  10. John Noble

  11. Alexandra Astin

  12. Peter McKenzie

  13. Hugo Weaving

  14. Karl Urban

  15. Miranda Otto

  16. Noel Appleby

  17. David Wenham

  18. Cameron Rhodes

  19. Elijah Wood

  20. Cate Blanchett

  21. Bruce Hopkins

  22. Ian McKellen

  23. Mark Ferguson

  24. John Rhys-Davies

  25. Andy Serkis

  26. Stephen Ure

  27. Craig Parker

  28. John Leigh

  29. Timothy Bartlett

  30. Harry Sinclair

  31. Orlando Bloom

  32. Lawrence Makoare

  33. Robbie Magasiva

  34. Ray Henwood

  35. Dominic Monaghan

  36. Robyn Malcolm

  37. Bruce Spence

  38. Megan Edwards

  39. Billy Boyd

  40. Sarah McLeod

  41. Sean Astin

  42. Christopher Lee

  43. Sala Baker

  44. Brian Sergent

  45. Bernard Hill

  46. Nathaniel Lees

  47. Brad Dourif

  48. Howard Shore

  49. Jim Rygiel

  50. Peter Jackson

Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
28 Days (2000)
Psycho (1998)
G.I. Jane (1997)
Albino Alligator (1996)
Prophecy, The (1995)
American Yakuza (1994)
Carlito’s Way (1993)
Boiling Point (1993)
Young Americans, The (1993)
Indian Runner, The (1991)
Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985)
Swing Shift (1984)

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Liv Tyler (Arwen)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Dr. T & the Women (2000)
U Turn (1997)
Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
Stealing Beauty (1996)
Heavy (1995)
Silent Fall (1994)

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Ian Holm (Bilbo)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Last of the Blonde Bombshells, The (2000) (TV)
Bless the Child (2000)
Animal Farm (1999) (TV)
Match, The (1999)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998) (TV)
Fifth Element, The (1997)
Sweet Hereafter, The (1997)
Madness of King George, The (1994)
Henry V (1989)
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Fixer, The (1968)

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Sean Bean (Boromir)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Don’t Say a Word (2001)
When Saturday Comes (1996)
Field, The (1990)
Caravaggio (1986)

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Ian Mune (Bounder)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Bounty, The (1984)

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Martyn Sanderson (Bree Gatekeeper)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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David Weatherly (Barliman Butterbur)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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Marton Csokas (Celeborn)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Monkey’s Mask, The (2000)

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Taea Hartwell (Child Hobbit)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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John Noble (Denethor)

Virtual Nightmare (2000)
Monkey’s Mask, The (2000)
Airtight (1999) (TV)

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Alexandra Astin (Elanor Gamgee)

No Listings This Week

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Peter McKenzie (Elendil)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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Hugo Weaving (Elrond)

Russian Doll (2001)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The (1994)

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Karl Urban (Eomer)

Price of Milk, The (2000)

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Miranda Otto (Eowyn)

What Lies Beneath (2000)
Jack Bull, The (1999) (TV)

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Noel Appleby (Everard Proudfoot)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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David Wenham (Faramir)

Russian Doll (2001)
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999)

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Cameron Rhodes (Farmer Maggot)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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Elijah Wood (Frodo)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Faculty, The (1998)
Good Son, The (1993)
Forever Young (1992)
Radio Flyer (1992)
Avalon (1990)
Internal Affairs (1990)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)

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Cate Blancett (Galadriel)

Shipping News, The (2001)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Charlotte Gray (2001)
Gift, The (2000)
Man Who Cried, The (2000)
Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999)
Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997)

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Bruce Hopkins (Gamling)

No Listings This Week

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Ian McKellen (Gandalf)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
X-Men (2000)
Apt Pupil (1998)
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Restoration (1995)
Ballad of Little Jo, The (1993)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
Keep, The (1983)

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Mark Ferguson (Gil-Galad)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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John Rhhys-Davies (Gimli)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Au Pair (1999) (TV)
Secret of the Andes (1998)
Marquis de Sade (1996)
Great White Hype, The (1996)
Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996) (V)
Stargate (1994)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing (1992) (TV)
Canvas (1992)
Under Cover (1991) (TV)
Waxwork (1988)

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Andy Serkis (Gollum)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Career Girls (1997)

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Stephen Ure (Gorbag)

No Listings This Week

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Craig Parker (Haldir)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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John Leigh (Hama)

No Listings This Week

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Timothy Bartlett (Hobbit)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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Harry Sinclair (Isildur)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Price of Milk, The (2000)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)

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Orlando Bloom (Legolas)

Black Hawk Down (2001)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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Lawrence Makoare (Lurtz)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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Robbie Magasiva (Mahur)

No Listings This Week

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Ray Henwood (Man from Rivendell)

Heavenly Creatures (1994)

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Dominic Monaghan (Merry)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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Robyn Malcolm (Morwen)

No Listings This Week

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Bruce Spence (Mouth of Sauron)

Sweet Talker (1991)
Rikky and Pete (1988)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

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Megan Edwards (Mrs. Proudfoot)

No Listings This Week

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Billy Boyd (Pippin)

TV schedules via In country
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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Sarah McLeod (Rosie Cotton)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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Sean Astin (Sam Gamgee)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Sky Is Falling, The (2000)
Deterrence (1999)
Icebreaker (1999)
Dish Dogs (1998) (V)
Encino Man (1992)
White Water Summer (1987)
Goonies, The (1985)

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Christopher Lee (Saruman)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)
Howling II (1985)
Arabian Adventure (1979)
Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
Killer Force (1975)
Three Musketeers, The (1973)
Horror Express (1972)
Death Line (1972)
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Ten Little Indians (1966)
Terror of the Tongs, The (1961)
Beat Girl (1960)
Dracula (1958)
Moulin Rouge (1952)

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Sala Baker (Sauron)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

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Brian Sergent (Ted Sandyman)

No Listings Here This Week

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Bernard Hill (Theoden)

Going Off Big Time (2000)
Loss of Sexual Innocence, The (1999)
Bounty, The (1984)

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Nathaniel Lees (Ugluk

No Listings This Week

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Brad Dourif (Grima Wormtounge)

Prophecy 3: The Ascent, The (2000) (V)
Interceptors (1999)
Storytellers, The (1999)
Silicon Towers (1999)
Sworn to Justice (1996)
Death Machine (1995)
Escape to Witch Mountain (1995) (TV)
Amos & Andrew (1993)
Child’s Play 3 (1991)
Child’s Play 2 (1990)
Child’s Play (1988)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

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Howard Shore (Composer)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Cell, The (2000)
Yards, The (2000)
High Fidelity (2000)
Game, The (1997)
Cop Land (1997)
Striptease (1996)
Truth About Cats & Dogs, The (1996)
Se7en (1995)
White Man’s Burden (1995)
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Guilty as Sin (1993)
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
Kiss Before Dying, A (1991)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
She-Devil (1989)
Signs of Life (1989)
Innocent Man, An (1989)
Big (1988)
Moving (1988)
Nadine (1987)
Fire with Fire (1986)
After Hours (1985)

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Jim Rygiel (SFX)

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
102 Dalmatians (2000)
Anna and the King (1999)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Multiplicity (1996)
Species (1995)
Cliffhanger (1993)
Batman Returns (1992)
Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)
Ghost (1990)
Last Starfighter, The (1984)
2010 (1984)

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Peter Jackson

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
Contact (1997)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)

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Dr. Joe sends along these great images from the 1970’s…yes a time before MANY of you youngins were even on this earth. Take a look at how things were done OLD-SCHOOL. [More]

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The Glass Hammer Folks writes: The “Lex Rex” release date has been set for October 1st, and pre-orders are being accepted at the Glass Hammer website. All pre-orders will be autographed upon request. Advance reviews are hailing “Lex Rex” as Glass Hammer’s “crowning achievement” – their best album to date! [More]

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Lolly sends along this GREAT report from the seminar given by Paul Kirwan during the Science Week held in Canberra back in August. Take a look! [More]

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From: Lolly

Here’s my report on the seminar given by Paul Kirwan during the Science Week held in Canberra back in August. It was so popular that the 6pm session was booked out so quickly that another session for 3pm that afternoon was also scheduled. This too was booked out very fast, not surprising given the popularity of the Lord of the Rings plus the fact Paul is a Canberra Boy! We attended the 6pm session. It was a fascinating seminar, I was madly scribbling notes in the dark to report back.

After thanking both Weta Digital and New Line for the permission to both come back to Canberra for the Science Festival as well as show images from Fellowship of the Ring, Paul gave us a brief outline of how he came into the field of digital animation. He is originally studied Computer Science at the Australian National University (ANU), then went on to be a data base administrator. Having found that rather dry, he then did a course in computer graphics and animation. After that he then completed a Masters in computer animation. He worked in James Cameron’s effects studio, on a number of projects including films such as Dante’s Peak and Titanic. Some 18 months ago he moved to Wellington to work at Weta on the Lord of the Rings.

Paul is a 2D compositor, he has a very good eye for detail which is something he said you either have or don’t, you can’t teach, but such ability is crucial for the work he does. Technically, there has been nothing like LOTR before, although Star Wars came close but the feel is different. He stated that it is crucial for the special effects work properly, he believes that he’s done a good job if you can’t tell that it is actually a computer generated image. This has been difficult with LOTR, particularly as we know that demons and trolls don’t exist, but they had to make them look believable.

We were treated to three scenes on which Paul had worked on, and were taken from the early pre-visualisation (very blocky, basic graphics) to blue screen shots of the actors/body doubles, right through to the finished shot.

The first was the bridge at Khazad-dum. Although the entire scene is around 3 and a half minutes, it was 6 months work with 35-40 effects shots. Paul pointed out that 99% of the arrows shot in FOTR were all computer generated, due to the danger of shooting real arrows! We were shown the process from the goblins/orcs who were shooting at the Fellowship after Gandalf and Legolas had jumped across the breach in the bridge. It was interesting to hear that when filming the extras against blue screen, where one falls into the chasm after getting shot, the guy bounced back which you could see in the shot. They were able to mask this through both background as well as having the creature fall.

The next sequence was the Watcher at the Moria entrance. A huge amount of time was spent on this sequence, as it was one of the three major monsters (the others being the Cave Troll and the Balrog). Originally the scene was 3 minutes, but was cut down to 1, and there was more blood and guts, but this too was cut in order to meet the PG13 rating. Paul showed how the Watcher was developed, skeleton, slimy wet skin and all, and the detail behind Frodo being grabbed by the leg and pulled up and out of shot. As we saw Elijah Wood being dragged up and out of shot by a cable attached to his leg by a leather cuff, Paul explained that as the actors also had a passion for the project, they did things well beyond the call of duty, the passion of Peter Jackson was contagious!!

The final scene was that of the Cave Troll (Troll Boy as he was referred to!). Paul explained how much thought and detail went into the troll, which is why he looks heaps better than the Harry Potter version (my bias creeping in there!). Once the basic troll had been developed, the animators then put him through some physical activity to make sure he moved right. We were treated to Troll Boy watching a fly then swatting it with his club, juggling a number of coloured balls and finally doing some serious sniffing, which included a whiff of his own armpit! We even saw a “shell” of the Troll’s torso being “dropped” and watching cave troll fat wobble, all in the name of realism. As well as detail on the Troll, we were shown how they morphed a CGI Aragorn with a Aragorn garbed stuntman to get the realism behind Aragorn being flung aside by the Troll. We also saw motion capture images of Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom and Viggo Mortensen, for their computer generated doubles. Paul explained the difficulty in doing hair (strange to see Aragorn with a head half Gandalf hair and half Legolas hair) and cloth, however this is getting easier with developments in both software and hardware.

The seminar went a full two hours, too short of course. Paul explained that in FOTR there were about 485 shots, 25 minutes of film, that were computer generated. He’s currently working on The Two Towers, they have 9 weeks to go. Paul believes that TTT will be better than FOTR, with some 800 computer generated shots, and Return of the King even better, with approximately 1,200 shots. He was treated to a huge round of applause by an audience of both LOTR fans and computer geeks.

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Ruby_Sandybanks sends along these photos from New Zealand, a few pics of Paradise (AKA Rivendell) and some shots from the Wellington store Witcoulls. [More]

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