Peter Rowley

Peter Rowley is a New Zealand actor and writer known for comedy, especially on television, where he has often been cast as a comic foil or straight man to performers including David McPhail, Jon Gadsby and Billy T. James. He started in comedy in New Zealand and made his television debut as an actor and writer on A Week of It, a satirical sketch show. He later worked with McPhail and Gadsby on McPhail and Gadsby and Letter to Blanchy, and he both appeared in and wrote material for The Billy T James Show. He received title billing in the 1994 series Pete and Pio alongside Pio Terei, and in 2010 he wrote and presented Billy T. and Me, a tribute to Billy T. James. In film, his most notable credit was the voice of Dog, the title character in Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale (1986), and his voice work also includes Zurgane in Power Rangers Ninja Storm.