Martyn Sanderson

Martyn Sanderson was born in Westport on 24 February 1938, the son of a missionary father and a writer mother. He studied literature at Oxford, then theology for a time, before giving up the priesthood. In 1964 in Wellington, with Tim Elliott, Peter Bland and Harry Seresin, he founded Downstage, the country's first permanent professional theatre, also acted in Australia and made his own documentaries. He appeared in twenty-six films from his country, was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2005, and died in Ōtaki on 14 October 2009.

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• CinemaFlying Fox in a Freedom TreeMartyn Sanderson · 1989Cinema