Peter Bland

Peter Bland

personal-info

known-for

Acting

gender

Male

birthday

1934-05-12

place-of-birth

Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK

also-known-as

Peter Gordon Bland

biography

Peter Bland was born on May 12, 1934 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England as Peter Gordon Bland. He emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 20 and graduated from the Victoria University of Wellington. He worked as a radio producer for the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation. He became closely associated with the Wellington Group which included James K. Baxter and Louis Johnson. He worked in theatre, as co-founder and artistic director of Downstage Theatre from 1964–68. He returned to Britain in 1970 for a short time but now lives in Auckland, New Zealand.