Tom Hern

Tom Hern
Born
Thomas Hern

(1984-12-10) 10 December 1984 (age 34)
Other namesHerndog
OccupationFilm producer, Actor
Years active1998 - present

Thomas Hern (born 10 December 1984) is a New Zealand Actor and award- winning independent Film Producer. He is known for producing NZ feature films, The Dark Horse, Everything We Loved and Pork Pie[1] (The reboot of Kiwi classic Goodbye Pork Pie[2]). He is also known to global audiences for his role as Ram in The Tribe and Devin Del Valle in the 2004 television show Power Rangers Dino Thunder. Hern also appeared in Shortland Street, Revelations, Interrogation, Maddigan's Quest, as well as in many smaller acting and presenting roles. His filmography also includes various TV and radio commercials and voiceovers.

Thomas Hern was born in Christchurch, New Zealand on 10 December 1984. He has two older brothers and an older sister.

To his friends (and fans) Hern is also known by the name of Herndog, a long-time nickname of his.

Between 2006 and 2007, Hern appeared on the long-running South Pacific Pictures New Zealand television series "Shortland Street" as Baxter Cormack.

Hern continues to work on musical side-projects, Theodore High, with Latham Gaines (who starred alongside Hern in Power Rangers Dino Thunder as Anton Mercer/Mesogog) and rock-hop band The Drop D's.

Recent work

In 2008/09, Hern produced his debut feature film, I'm Not Harry Jenson, with longtime friend James Napier who also starred in The Tribe and Power Rangers Dino Thunder.

The film was released throughout New Zealand in 2010 to strong reviews through Rialto and was represented for international sales by Media Luna New Films in Germany[3] I'm Not Harry Jenson also played at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

Hern is a co-founder and managing director of Four Knights Film Ltd along with partners James Napier and Tim and Sasha Wood. Hern produced the short film, Lambs, in 2011. Lambs premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and screened in competition at the Clermont Ferrand, Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand International film festivals (the film also won both major awards at the 2012 New Zealand International Film Festival - The People's Choice Award and The Grand Jury Prize for short films). Hern and Four Knights' released 2 feature films in 2014; The Dark Horse, starring Cliff Curtis and James Rolleston and directed by James Napier Robertson, and Everything We Loved, an arthouse drama by Max Currie (which had its World Premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January 2014).

Filmography

As actor

Year Title Role Notes
1999 What Now?! PM On the Scene Reporter TV series
2001–02 WNTV On the Scene Reporter TV series
2002–03 Revelations – The Initial Journey Jess Main role
2002–03 The Tribe Ram Main role
2004 Power Rangers Dino Thunder Devin Del Valle Main role
2005 Two Cons Con 1 Short film
2005 Interrogation Christian Tariq McAvoy "Money Talks"
2005–2007 Shortland Street Baxter Cormack Regular role
2006 Maddigan's Quest Bird Boy Leader "Birdboys"
2009 I'm Not Harry Jenson Kevin Feature film
2009 Life's a Riot Squeaker Dudley TV film
2011 Ice Gang Leader "1.2"
2011 Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud Billy Kirby "Thirty of Silver/One of Gold"
2013 Harry Eugene "God Bless Brutus"
2012 A Bend in the Road Bret Short film

As producer

Year Title Notes
2009 I'm Not Harry Jenson Feature film
2010 The Rogers Family Xmas TV series
2011 Lambs Short film
2014 Everything We Loved Feature film
2014 The Dark Horse Feature film
2017 Pork Pie Feature film
2017 Human Traces Feature film

As director

Year Title Notes
2008 Legend of the Seeker "Brennidon", "Listener", "Elixir"
2010 After the Waterfall Feature film
2011 Lambs Short film
2014 The Dark Horse Feature film

References

[1][2][3]

External links

[4]

  1. ^ "Pork Pie". NZ Film Commission.
  2. ^ "Tom Hern". NZ Film Commission.
  3. ^ "Tom Hern". NZ ON SCREEN.
  4. ^ "Pork Pie". Internet Movie Data Base.

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