Pete Smith debuted with a GOFTA-winning role as one of the last people on earth, in classic sci-fi film The Quiet Earth (1985). Smith found acting after being welcomed onto the marae for his father's tangi. Keen to rediscover his ancestry and a "better life", he joined a drama course run by mentor Don Selwyn. He played a detective in Plainclothes, a gang leader in What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? and had an award-winning role on TV series The Market. Later Smith co-created and presented Far North gardening show Maramataka - Once Were Gardeners, and starred in 2010 movie Hugh and Heke. He died on 29 January 2022, at age 63.
The dynamic for me was ‘what can I contribute?’ The whole community was contributing to the upbringing of my kids ... all producing strong upstanding kids. I thought ‘let’s have a film company in Kaitaia. Let’s be the first ones'. Pete Smith, on launching production company Puriri Productions with his partner Mona Papali’i, Te Waha Nui, 6 June 2006
2021, Subject - Television
2007, Narrator - Film
2004, As: Truck driver - Film
2001, 2004, As: Pahi Ngare, Ngamanu - Television
1999, As: Wahana - Television
1999, As: Apeman - Film
1995, As: Detective Oscar Kingi - Television
1994, As: Dooley - Film
1993, Research, Subject - Television
1993, Subject - Television
1993, Research - Television
1993, Research - Television
1993, Research - Television
1993, Research - Television
1993, Research - Television
1993, Research - Television
1993, As: Hone - Film
1999, As: Te Hamua Whaia - Television
1992 - 1994, As: Matiu Burrows - Television
1992, As: Horse - Film
1991, As: Dan - Television
1991 - 1992, As: Various roles - Television
1991, As: Various roles - Television
1990, As: George - Television
1990, As: George - Television
1990, Guest - Television
1989, As: Tom - Television
1985, As: Api - Film
1986, As: Churchill - Television
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