- Born
- Died
- Birth nameWarren Lee Tamahori
- Beginning as a commercial artist and photographer, he joined the New Zealand film industry in the late 1970s as a boom operator. He became an assistant director a decade later. Making international award-winning commercials for 10 years, he has also directed several TV series. His first feature film, Once Were Warriors (1994), won the PEN First Book Award.
- IMDb mini biography by: L.H. Wong
- ChildrenMaxSamTaneMeka
- ParentsPhillip TamahoriPatricia Tamahori
- RelativesRenaye Tamahori(Sibling)Glenn Tamahori(Sibling)
- Progresses the film through fast-paced visuals
- His father is Maori, his mother is British.
- Past jobs have included: commercial artist, photographer, boom operator, and assistant director
- In recent years, has suffered the effects of Parkinson's.
- Lee Tamahori was a New Zealand film director. His feature directorial debut, Once Were Warriors (1994), was a widespread critical and commercial success. It is considered one of the greatest New Zealand films ever made.
- In January 2006, Tamahori was arrested on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, when according to the Los Angeles Police Department, he entered an undercover policeman's car while wearing a woman's dress and offered to perform a sex act in exchange for money. In February 2006, he pleaded no contest in a Los Angeles court to a charge of criminal trespass in return for prosecutors dropping charges of prostitution and loitering. He was placed on 36 months' probation and ordered to perform 15 days of community service.
- Sex should not be in the movies and should be in the home, and violence should be in the movies and not in the home.
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