Michael Eric Hurst, ONZM (born 20 September 1957) is a New Zealand actor, director and writer, mostly on stage and television. He is probably best known internationally for playing Iolaus in the television programs Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and companion series Xena: Warrior Princess. Most recently, he is known for directing Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Ash vs. Evil Dead, 800 Words, and Westside.
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Michael Hurst Biography / Wiki
| Name | Michael Hurst |
| Also Know | Michael Hurst (I), Michael Eric Hurst, Billy Wagstaff, Edith Sidebottom |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Lancashire, England |
| Date of Birth | 1957-09-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 65 |
| Deathday |
Michael Hurst Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Death Warmed Up | Michael Tucker | 1985-01-01 | A kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a grown up he returns to seek revenge over the scientist…. |
| View from Olympus | Narrator (voice) | 2012-01-01 | Documentary from Geoffrey Cawthorn… |
| Project: Assassin | Ellis Walker | 1996-08-31 | Big brother is watching you out of the dark. He might be in your room, he might be in your head, he might be your friend – but do never expect him to … |
| Hercules & Xena: Wizards of the Screen | Iolaus | 1997-06-01 | Members of the audience fight against stage performers set to a specially created Xena/Hercules movie…. |
| Dead | Ross | 2020-10-22 | Dane ‘Marbles’ Marbeck can see ghosts, thanks to a homemade drug: his late father’s neurological medication mixed with marijuana. Officer Jayso… |
| Northspur | Green | 2021-07-27 | In a violent, post-pandemic world, a peace-loving man is forced on a desperate journey to find life-saving drugs for his wife – but to get them he mus… |
| A Moment Passing | Joey | 1997-07-25 | A fisherman is swept into the sea by a freak wave. He desperately fights for his life only to find his apparent survival is not what it seems…. |
| The Footstep Man | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec/Barman | 1992-06-20 | Sam is a sound technician, who must literally walk in the footsteps of the characters on the screen. A “film within a film” that connects the world of… |
| Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus | Ioalus | 1998-01-01 | Mighty Zeus brings Hercules’ mother, Alcmene, to Mount Olympus, and Hercules, believing she has been kidnapped, leads a rescue mission to save her. Ze… |
| Highwater | Hugh Chance | 1997-10-06 | A big-city director working in advertising discovers a better life in small-town New Zealand…. |
| Hercules and the Amazon Women | Iolaus | 1994-04-24 | Hercules and Iolaus take time out from Iolaus’ wedding preparations, to help a distant village under attack from “monsters”. When they reach their des… |
| Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur | Iolaus | 1994-11-19 | Hercules has settled down with his wife and children, but misses the good old days traveling around having exciting adventures. Then one day he is per… |
| Dangerous Orphans | Moir | 1985-01-01 | Three orphaned boys – O’Malley, Rossi and Moir – become blood brothers. When they grow up, they plot revenge on the crooks who got away with shootin… |
| I’ll Make You Happy | Lou | 1999-04-08 | Siggy (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is a teenage “bad girl” who lives and works in a red-light district of Auckland, New Zealand. Just like her fellow stree… |
| The Last Magic Show | Trevor Norton | 2007-07-11 | An emotionally traumatized stage magician has “escaped” into a fantasy world where he has real magical powers, but his career has taken him to perfor… |
| Desperate Remedies | Willam Poyser | 1993-11-26 | In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain’s empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose … |
| Typhon’s People | Constantine | A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway t… | |
| The Tattooist | Crash | 2007-11-28 | American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer wanders the world, exploring and exploiting ethnic themes in his tattoo designs. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he … |
| Hercules in the Underworld | Charon the Boatman | 1994-11-07 | When villagers begin disappearing it is discovered that they had fallen through a crack in the earth which goes straight to Hades. Hercules once again… |
| We’re Here to Help | Rodney Hide | 2007-11-08 | A Kafkaesque docudrama of an actual case involving a Christchurch small businessman and the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department. Most people can rel… |
| Bitch Slap | Gage | 2009-05-16 | Three bad girls (a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer and a corporate powerbroker) arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort and steal $2… |
| Fracture | Athol Peet | 2004-09-04 | A young solo mother loves her son and his needs are formost, but she still has room in her heart for her very broken brother, even as her fundamentali… |
| Young Hercules | Jeweler | 1998-08-30 | This film directed by T.J. Scott is a prequel to the popular television series. At an academy for mythological warriors, 17-year-old Hercules (Ian Boh… |
| The Map Reader | Alison’s father | 2008-10-18 | Small-town New Zealand comedy-drama about Michael (Jordan Selwyn) – a 16-year-old whose passion for maps helps him escape his ordinary life and enjoy … |
| Love Mussel | Stephen Jessop | 2001-07-19 | In this mockumentary, Kevin Smith plays himself covering the story of a New Zealand town after the discovery that a local shellfish, the geoduck (pron… |
Michael Hurst Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Treasure Island Kids: The Monster of Treasure Island | Director | 2006-01-01 | Part two of the Treasure Island Kids Series follows Charlie, a rebellious teenager sent to summer camp by his parents. This is not any old summer camp… |
| Treasure Island Kids: The Mystery of Treasure Island | Director | 2006-01-01 | Part three of the Treasure Island Kids Series follows Charlie, a rebellious teenager sent to summer camp by his parents. This is not any old summer ca… |
| Jubilee | Director | 2000-04-13 | Billy (Cliff Curtis) is trying to organize the biggest celebration the town of Waimatua has even seen – the 75th Jubilee of their school. In doing th… |
| I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry | Director | 1994-04-16 | After Jane leaves Bill, they each meet unusual strangers as they travel on their own…. |
| Love Mussel | Director | 2001-07-19 | In this mockumentary, Kevin Smith plays himself covering the story of a New Zealand town after the discovery that a local shellfish, the geoduck (pron… |
| Amazon High | Director | 1997-01-01 | A high school teenager wakes up in a time of Amazons and Gods…. |
| Director | Jack of All Trades is a half-hour long syndicated action-comedy television series which ran for two seasons in 2000. With Cleopatra 2525, it formed th… | ||
| Director | The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people…. | ||
| Director | Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy… | ||
| Director | The adventures of woodsman Richard Cypher, who discovers that he was born to fulfill a prophecy of becoming a guardian hero to oppressed people. With … | ||
| Director | Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime entertainme… | ||
| Director | The story of legendary safe cracker and career criminal Ted West and his firecracker of a wife, Rita. Combining real events and the rich folklore of t… | ||
| Director | Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams, an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who’s spent the last three decades avoiding m… | ||
| Director | The four Johnson brothers have inherited the powers of the Norse gods. Because the gods lived eons ago, however, time has diluted the powers. The uniq… | ||
| Director | In a seemingly quiet country town the newest resident, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location…. | ||
| Director | Tatau follows Kyle and Budgie, two twenty-something friends from London that set off to travel the world. Ahead of the journey, Kyle gets a Maori-styl… | ||
| Director | Dave, a 24-year-old ordinary kiwi slacker, finds his life turned upside down when he meets the girl of his dreams Cara – and her three kids. Step Dave… | ||
| Director | A recently widowed father, quits his job as a popular 800 word columnist for a top selling Sydney newspaper. Over the internet he buys a house on an i… | ||
| Director | This provocative hit series tells the stories of dangerous women who find extraordinary ways of coping with their problems, channeling their survival … | ||
| Director | Cate Walford’s relationship with vicious, business tycoon husband, Phillip, is on the ropes and their tempestuous home life is trapped in a tangled we… | ||
| Director | A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, a… | ||
| Director | Investigator Alexa Crowe, cannot help fighting the good fight – whether it is solving murders or combatting the small frustrations of everyday life…. | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry | Writer | 1994-04-16 | After Jane leaves Bill, they each meet unusual strangers as they travel on their own…. |
| Writer | This provocative hit series tells the stories of dangerous women who find extraordinary ways of coping with their problems, channeling their survival … | ||
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