Jervis, Alan

Wellington based actor whose voice had been heard in Radio New Zealand plays for over 26 years, and in 1963 he was in the first New Zealand TV drama, All Earth to Love. It was a sort of poor man's Brief Encounter. We called it Passionate Paekak.

His films include Skin Deep, Sons For the Return Home, Goodbye Pork Pie and Bad Blood. He also made acted for the stage. In the early 1980s he had taken up possum hunting and was involved in the Guide Dog Breeding Scheme, a voluntary group which provided the Foundation for the Blind with guide dogs.

In 1972 Jervis won a Feltex Award for Best Performer in The Killing of Kane, and his other small screen work included