Keith Aberdein

Keith Aberdein is probably best known for playing the small-town policeman who arouses Bruno Lawrence's ire in classic 1980s movie Smash Palace. But his screen work covers many angles: from reporting on the Wahine disaster, to producing and directing, to writing arguably the most ambitious television drama in New Zealand's history.

People look at us and think, ‘three million people, how do you do it?' Keith Aberdein in a 1985 issue of Onfilm, on New Zealand’s film and television industry