Peter Vere-Jones

Peter Vere-Jones, ONZM, co-starred in The Evening Paper (1965), one of New Zealand's earliest TV dramas. Over the next half century, he balanced a busy theatre and radio career with on-screen work: including starring roles in 60s travel caper The Taking Mood, period film Pictures, and teleplays The Good Samaritan and Casualties of Peace. He also lent his distinctive voice to documentaries. Vere-Jones died in early 2021.

About two o'clock on Monday morning, we finally came to the end of a not flawless, but not bad take of act three of the play, and the vision mixer punched up the credits out of sequence...She burst into tears, ran out into the night and had to be hauled back ... We all went back to the beginning of this 30-minute scene ... to do it again. I think it was recorded with people almost asleep on their feet. Peter Vere-Jones recalls filming early teleplay The Evening Paper, in Trisha Dunleavy's 2005 book Ourselves in Primetime - A History of NZ Television Drama