Gloin

Peter Hambleton - Toi Whakaari graduate Peter Hambleton has acted and directed extensively for the stage, in the process winning a number of Chapman Tripp Theatre awards (Copenhagen, The Letter Writer). On screen he has played a sizable cadre of policeman and officials, alongside Prime Ministers (Peter Fraser in TV movie Spies and Lies), priests, and a dwarf: he plays Gloin in Peter Jackson’s three-part adaptation of The Hobbit.

Peter Hambleton (born 1960) is a New Zealand stage, film and television actor, and stage director. Well known in the Wellington theatre scene, he has played ornithologist Walter Buller in the 2006 play Dr Buller's Birds and Charles Darwin in the 2009 play Collapsing Creation.[1][2] He played the Dwarf Glóin in The Hobbit film series[3][4][5] and Mike Johnson in an episode of the 1999 TV miniseries A Twist in the Tale.

Peter Hambleton, Actor: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Peter Hambleton is an actor, known for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014).

Glóin (T.A. 2783 – Fo.A. 15, aged 253 years), was a dwarf of Durin's Folk, the son of Gróin, the brother of Óin, and the father of Gimli of the Fellowship of the Ring.[2] He is most famous as one of Thorin's companions on the quest to Erebor.

"Of all the members in The Company of Dwarves who set out on the Quest to The Lonely Mountain...

Glóin son of Gróin was one of the Dwarves of Thorin II Oakenshield's company who set out to...