Brian Vriends

Brian Vriends

Born: March 24, 1964
in South Australia, Australia
Brian Vriends (24 March 1964) is an Australian actor and theatre performer. He is most known for his work as Ben Markham on Australian award-winning medical drama, All Saints (1998). He graduated from NIDA in 1988. He was married to her All Saint co-star Libby Tanner until they separated in 2004, they both have a child together.

Movies for Brian Vriends...

Title: Halifax: Retribution
Character: Cameron Kelleher
Released: August 25, 2020
Type: TV
A sniper is on the loose, as Jane Halifax comes back to the rescue to find the sniper before its too late. 20 years on the race for answers is more important than ever.
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Title: Fat Tony & Co
Character: Malcolm Rosenes
Released: February 23, 2014
Type: TV
The true story of Tony Mokbel; how he grew entangled with the country’s most notorious underworld figures, how he built his massive fortune, and how he became a fugitive on a yacht bound for Greece, desperate to escape mounting criminal law battles.
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Title: Very Small Business
Character: Jerome
Released: September 3, 2008
Type: TV
Don Angel is a small businessman – the backbone of this great country’s economy. But if that's true, it's no thanks to him. After numerous unsuccessful ventures, Don's Worldwide Business Group is now hurtling towards liquidation. His debts are mounting, his stomach's killing him, his wife has left him and he's just hired Ray Leonard as his sole employee. It's a marriage made in heaven – at least until the Tax Office gets there.
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Title: Rush
Released: September 2, 2008
Type: TV
They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide. Rush was an Australian television police drama that first screened on Network Ten in September 2008. Set in Melbourne, Victoria, it focuses on the members of a Police Tactical Response team. It is produced by John Edwards and Southern Star. On 10 November 2011, as with Network Ten setting out DVD promotions for the finale of season 4, David Knox of TV Tonight has announced that Rush would not return after 4 years, as the next episode would be its last.
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Title: Underbelly
Character: Dave Carpenter
Released: February 13, 2008
Type: TV
Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events.
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Title: Through My Eyes
Character: Det. Chief. Supt. Neil Plumb
Released: October 23, 2004
Type: TV
The true life story of Lindy Chamberlain and her recount of a dingo taking her baby
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Title: Fireflies
Character: Sam O'Donnell
Released: February 1, 2004
Type: TV
Fireflies is an Australian television show which aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia and RTÉ One in Ireland. It debuted on 7 February 2004 and screened as 22 episodes. The series was set in the fictional country town of Lost River, population 487. It was centred on the lives of a group of volunteer firefighters, during the hottest, driest summer in decades. The theme song "Beautiful Feeling" was written and performed by Paul Kelly.
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Title: All Saints
Character: Ben Markham
Released: February 24, 1998
Type: TV
Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.
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Title: Fallen Angels
Character: Nick Swan
Released: February 7, 1997
Type: TV
Fallen Angels is an Australian television series, aired by the ABC in 1997. Twenty episodes were produced, portraying a community legal centre in Endeavour Park, a fictional western suburb of Sydney, and the interesting clients represented by its overworked lawyers.
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Title: Pacific Drive
Released: January 29, 1996
Type: TV
Pacific Drive is an Australian television series The series was conceived as a flamboyant, melodramatic soap opera and dealt with the lives of wealthy Australians living on the Gold Coast. Although criticised for being an Australian copy of the American soap opera Melrose Place, its outrageous storylines - including corporate scheming, various affairs, serial killers and a lesbian love triangle - saw the series gain a cult reputation.
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Title: Echo Point
Character: Father Patrick
Released: June 5, 1995
Type: TV
Echo Point was an Australian television soap opera produced by Southern Star Group for Network Ten on 1 June 1995 until 1 December 1995. The series was devised as an attempt by the Ten Network to rival the opposition soap Home and Away on the Seven Network. The series focused on several families and teenagers in a coastal community, and a key on-going storyline concerned renewed interest in a long-unsolved local murder mystery. Echo Point originally aired at 7:00pm weeknights to low ratings and the series was cancelled after a little over 100 episodes had been produced. The final episodes were aired in a late night 11.30pm slot. The only purchaser of the series in the UK was Central Television, the only member of the ITV network to screen it. Central screened the series at 1315-1345 in the summer of 1998 following the conclusion of A Country Practice. TV3 in New Zealand picked up the series for just a few weeks in 1996 but then later cancelled, the show featured former Shortland Street actor Martin Henderson.
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Spider and Rose
Title: Spider and Rose
Character: Spider's Mate
Released: September 14, 1994
Type: Movie
A young ambulance driver befriends an elderly woman.
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Title: The Feds
Character: Michael Skinner
Released: September 20, 1993
Type: TV
The Feds is a series of Australian television films starring Robert Taylor, which were first broadcast on the Nine Network 1993-1996. The Feds revolves around the activities of the Australian Federal Police, who protect the national interests from crime in Australia and overseas. Nine telemovies were produced in the series.
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Title: Police Rescue
Character: Tybalt
Released: February 14, 1991
Type: TV
Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes.
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Mission: Top Secret
Title: Mission: Top Secret
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Pilot movie for the TV-Series.
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Struck by Lightning
Title: Struck by Lightning
Character: Pat Cannizzaro
Released: October 11, 1990
Type: Movie
This little comedy is set in a small factory come halfway home, employing only handicapped people. Ollie Rennie is the boss and sometime minder of all his workers. He employees Pat Cannizzaro to help get all his workers into some sort of sport, and Pat just happens to be a soccer teacher. He forms a team and tries to take them all the way, with some funny results.
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Title: Rafferty's Rules
Character: Lance Dewitt
Released: February 12, 1987
Type: TV
Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network. Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit, going into production in May 1985 as "a 15-part courtroom drama". The program had started out as a pilot episode, recorded in early 1984 with the actor Chris Haywood in the lead role. When the pilot episode was remounted later in 1984, Chris Haywood wasn't available and the lead role was re-cast to John Wood. This second recording was eventually broadcast as the program's first episode.
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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Man
Released: May 15, 1986
Type: TV
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.