Inia Te Wiata

Acting

Inia Te Wiata

Born 1915-06-10 · Otaki, Wellington, New Zealand

Acting credits

In Search of the Castaways poster
6.5

Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.

In Search of the Castaways

1962

Operation Stogie poster
6.0

Two cadets are set an outrageous and wacky initiation test to prove their suitability for officer training.

Operation Stogie

1962

Sands of the Desert poster
5.6

In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort in Arabia. He heads to the desert and immediately finds himself on the bad side of a local sheik as the fellow tries to build his resort atop oil-rich land. A war erupts between rival desert bands as they vie for the rights to the oil, but it is the travel agent who wins out in the end

Sands of the Desert

1960

Pacific Destiny poster
5.5

Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting an experienced man, soon shows his disapproval.

Pacific Destiny

1956

The Seekers poster
6.4

a group of British pioneers seek a new life in New Zealand.

The Seekers

1954

Man of the Moment poster
6.6

Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a knight. Norman leaves rooms in shambles, tailors in shreds, and diplomats in bandages. Chased by gunmen and assassins of foreign powers, Norman finds himself running through active TV studio sets and interrupts various programs and performances in progress

Man of the Moment

1955