Lee Tamahori

Warren Lee Tamahori was born in Wellington on 22 April 1950, to a Maori father and a mother of European descent. An advertising illustrator and photographer, he worked as a boom operator in television and film, then as an assistant director, and in 1986 founded a company making commercials. He then worked mostly in Hollywood, where he directed a James Bond film in 2002, before returning to film at home from 2016. He died in Auckland on 7 November 2025, aged seventy-five.

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• CinemaOnce Were WarriorsLee Tamahori · 1994Cinema