Bryan Brown

Bryan Brown

Born: June 23, 1947
in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Bryan Neathway Brown (born 23 June 1947) is an Australian actor. He has performed in over eighty film and television projects since the late 1970s, both in his native Australia and abroad. Notable films include Breaker Morant (1980), Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), F/X (1986), Tai-Pan (1986), Cocktail (1988), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), F/X2 (1991), Along Came Polly (2004), Australia (2008), Kill Me Three Times (2014) and Gods of Egypt (2016). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his performance in the television miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).

Bryan Brown was first introduced to an English-Australian actress-director Rachal Ward on the set of the TV mini-series, The Thorn Birds in 1983 and married a few months after filming wrapped. They have three children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bryan Brown, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies for Bryan Brown...

Title: Boy Swallows Universe
Character: Slim Halliday
Released: January 11, 2024
Type: TV
A young boy growing up in the suburbs of 1980s Brisbane faces the harsh realities of life — and the looming dangers that threaten his family.
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Anyone But You
Title: Anyone But You
Character: Roger
Released: December 21, 2023
Type: Movie
After an amazing first date, Bea and Ben’s fiery attraction turns ice cold — until they find themselves unexpectedly reunited at a destination wedding in Australia. So they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.
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Title: Faraway Downs
Character: King Carney
Released: November 26, 2023
Type: TV
The story of an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who inherits a large cattle ranch in Australia after her husband dies. When Australian cattle barons plot to take her land, she joins forces with a cattle drover to protect her ranch.
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Title: C*A*U*G*H*T
Character: Warren Whistle
Released: September 28, 2023
Type: TV
Four Australian soldiers are sent on a secret mission to a war-torn country. Mistaken for Americans, they are captured by freedom fighters and produce a hostage video that goes viral. When the soldiers reach celebrity status, they realise that being caught might just be the best thing that could’ve happened to them.
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Title: Darby and Joan
Character: Jack Darby
Released: August 8, 2022
Type: TV
An English widow on a reluctant quest. An Australian detective escaping his past. When lives collide, two strangers embark on an epic outback odyssey together.
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Title: The Moth Effect
Released: July 30, 2021
Type: TV
A satirical six-part sketch comedy.
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Title: Hungry Ghosts
Character: Neil Stockton
Released: August 24, 2020
Type: TV
When a tomb in Vietnam is accidentally opened on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Festival, a vengeful spirit is unleashed, bringing the dead with him. As these spirits wreak havoc across the Vietnamese-Australian community in Melbourne, reclaiming lost loves and exacting revenge, young woman May Le must rediscover her true heritage and accept her destiny to help bring balance to a community still traumatized by war.
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Title: The Sound
Character: Self - Co-Host
Released: July 19, 2020
Type: TV
Celebrating the movers and shakers of the Australian music scene, showcasing some of the country's best musicians with exclusive live performances and interviews.
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Title: Halal Gurls
Character: Gordon
Released: October 4, 2019
Type: TV
A comedy series offering a candid look into the lives of three 20-something Hijabis living their best lives in Australia as they endure the unseen everyday culture clash between their faith and desire.
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Palm Beach
Title: Palm Beach
Character: Frank
Released: August 8, 2019
Type: Movie
A group of lifelong friends reunite to celebrate a special birthday, with Sydney's iconic Palm Beach providing a stunning backdrop for the unfolding drama. The good times roll, with loads of laughter, lavish meals, flowing wine and fantastic music, but slowly tensions mount and deep secrets arise.
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Title: Bloom
Character: Ray Reed
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: TV
One year after a devastating flood kills five locals in an idyllic country town, a mysterious new plant appears with the power to restore their youth.
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Peter Rabbit
Title: Peter Rabbit
Character: Mr. Rabbit (voice)
Released: February 7, 2018
Type: Movie
Peter Rabbit's feud with Mr. McGregor escalates to greater heights than ever before as they rival for the affections of the warm-hearted animal lover who lives next door.
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Sweet Country
Title: Sweet Country
Character: Sergeant Fletcher
Released: January 25, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.
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Australia Day
Title: Australia Day
Character: Terry Friedman
Released: June 12, 2017
Type: Movie
On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of modern Australia.
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David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
Title: David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
Character: Self
Released: March 9, 2017
Type: Movie
A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood cinema experience of Australia in England, where he saw the first images of this strange and exotic landscape via the medium of film, to his migration to Australia as a ‘ten pound pom’ in 1963 and onto his present day reflections on the iconic themes that run through our cinematic legacy. All of this reflects a passionate engagement in a uniquely Australian medium. Parallel and at the heart of the series is the story of an industry whose growing pains David has witnessed over a lifetime. Alongside David, the protagonists of this history are the giants of Australian cinema – both behind the camera and in front of it.
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Red Dog: True Blue
Title: Red Dog: True Blue
Character: Grandpa
Released: December 26, 2016
Type: Movie
When eleven-year-old Mick is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in Western Australia, he befriends a scrappy, one-of-a-kind dog that will change his life forever.
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The Light Between Oceans
Title: The Light Between Oceans
Character: Septimus Potts
Released: September 2, 2016
Type: Movie
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
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Gods of Egypt
Title: Gods of Egypt
Character: Osiris
Released: February 25, 2016
Type: Movie
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.
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Title: Deadline Gallipoli
Character: Gen. Bridges
Released: April 19, 2015
Type: TV
Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding disaster. From encampment in Cairo to Anzac Cove to the evacuation, this is the story of journalists who will not accept that truth be the first casualty. This is the story of the men who will not shut up. The actions of these men will help change the course of the campaign, ensure that a strategic disaster becomes a legend of human heroism, and leave an impregnable mark on each of their lives.
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Kill Me Three Times
Title: Kill Me Three Times
Character: Bruce Jones
Released: April 10, 2015
Type: Movie
While on a seemingly routine job, a jaded hit man discovers that he's not the only one with his target in the crosshairs.
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Title: Old School
Character: Lennie Cahill
Released: May 23, 2014
Type: TV
Ted McCabe, a retired cop, and Lennie Cahill a retired crim, get together to solve crimes, unravel scams and make some cash, while avoiding the wrath of the police and the underworld.
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The Darkside
Title: The Darkside
Character: Graham
Released: November 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Writer and Director Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of the most poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost stories from around Australia. He will bring them to life with the help of some of Australia's most iconic actors as the storytellers.
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An Accidental Soldier
Title: An Accidental Soldier
Character: Captain Foster
Released: September 14, 2013
Type: Movie
An unexpected love story set in WW1 France between a young Australian baker who has deserted the front line, and a grieving French woman, who puts her own life at risk by sheltering him from the authorities.
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Title: Better Man
Character: Lex Lasry
Released: July 25, 2013
Type: TV
The remarkable life and death of Van Nguyen, a Vietnamese Australian man who was convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore and executed for his crime in 2005.
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Love Birds
Title: Love Birds
Character: Dr. Buster
Released: February 24, 2011
Type: Movie
Sometimes the best things in life happen on the fly. From the moment an injured duck crash-lands on Doug's roof, everything changes. Recently dumped and wallowing in self pity, Doug decides to nurse Pierre back to health with the assistance of an eccentric vet and bird specialist, Holly.
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Limbo
Title: Limbo
Character: Daniel
Released: September 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Sonia arrives in Trinidad with her two children to join her husband Jo who is working as an oil engineer. On the surface she lives a life of luxury in a large houses with servants. The days are uneventful and blend together into an everlasting holiday, where the women nurse their superficial relationships over cocktails poolside – the perfect climate for self-delusion.
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Beautiful Kate
Title: Beautiful Kate
Character: Bruce Kendall
Released: August 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also brings his young aspiring actress fiancee who struggles with the isolation. When home he starts having memories of his childhood many involving his beautiful twin sister and his older brother. These memories awaken long-buried secrets from the family's past.
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Dean Spanley
Title: Dean Spanley
Character: Wrather
Released: December 12, 2008
Type: Movie
Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.
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Australia
Title: Australia
Character: King Carney
Released: November 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
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Cactus
Title: Cactus
Character: Rosco
Released: May 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A man is kidnapped from his city home in the quiet hours of the night and, the kidnapper, John Kelly, embarks on a journey into the Australian Outback towards the place where his hostage is due for delivery. As time and distance roll by, the strength and endurance of both men will be tested to the very end.
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Joanne Lees: Murder In The Outback
Title: Joanne Lees: Murder In The Outback
Character: Rex Wild
Released: March 18, 2007
Type: Movie
After surviving the terrifying outback abduction of her boyfriend, Joanne Lees became the victim of a relentless trial by media across two continents. With no body to speak of, reported 'sightings' of Peter, and revelations Joanne had cheated on her boyfriend, the public and media in both Britain and Australia refused to accept Joanne's innocence on face value. This is the story of one young woman's courage in the face of one of the most mysterious crimes in Australian history.
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Title: Two Twisted
Released: August 14, 2006
Type: TV
Two Twisted is an Australian TV mystery anthology drama which premiered on the Nine Network on 14 August 2006. Narrated by Bryan Brown, who also produced the series' predecessor, Twisted Tales, each episode of the series contains two short half-hour stories, that have a twist ending. Also present in each episode is a link or connection between the two tales.
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The Poseidon Adventure
Title: The Poseidon Adventure
Character: Jeffrey Eric Anderson
Released: November 20, 2005
Type: Movie
A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.
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Spring Break Shark Attack
Title: Spring Break Shark Attack
Character: Joel Gately
Released: March 20, 2005
Type: Movie
A young teenager travels to Florida, unknowing that a group of dangerous tiger sharks are ravaging the beach.
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Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
Title: Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
Character: Hal Thorne
Released: September 26, 2004
Type: Movie
A middle-aged woman has what she believes is a great life. She's been married for 25 years, she is the book editor at a newspaper where her husband is the editor and they have a great family. That all comes to a screeching halt one day when her husband announces that he is leaving her for a younger woman. Not only that, but the younger woman is her assistant. Not only that, but he's taking the newspaper in "a new direction" and won't need her anymore. It's then that she finds out who her friends and the people who love her really are, and she gets a surprise when she runs into a man from her past.
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Along Came Polly
Title: Along Came Polly
Character: Leland Van Lew
Released: January 16, 2004
Type: Movie
Reuben Feffer is a guy who's spent his entire life playing it safe. Polly Prince is irresistible as a free-spirit who lives for the thrill of the moment. When these two comically mismatched souls collide, Reuben's world is turned upside down, as he makes an uproarious attempt to change his life from middle-of-the-road to totally-out-there.
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Footsteps
Title: Footsteps
Character: Eddie Bruno
Released: October 11, 2003
Type: Movie
Daisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan who knows almost everything about her, and two men — one of whom may be trying to kill her, the other of whom could save her life, causing Daisy to be thrown into the middle of a real-life drama.
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Dirty Deeds
Title: Dirty Deeds
Character: Barry Ryan
Released: July 18, 2002
Type: Movie
Set in 1960s Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during their tours in Vietnam, attracts the attention of first the Chicago mafia, and then their East Coast competitors.
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Styx
Title: Styx
Character: Art
Released: October 15, 2001
Type: Movie
Nelson puts his criminal ways behind him, having spent years as a first-rate safecracker. This resolution lasts until his brother finds himself owing money to organised crime and Nelson needs to do one last big job, with a few other professionals.
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Mullet
Title: Mullet
Character: Publican (voice)
Released: June 28, 2001
Type: Movie
Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation a few years previously, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life and fit back in to the lives of those he left, including his ex-girlfriend Tully and brother Pete.
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Risk
Title: Risk
Character: John Kriesky
Released: May 10, 2001
Type: Movie
Three people discover jealousy and larceny are a dangerous combination in this tense drama. John (Bryan Brown) is a veteran insurance investigator who succumbs to temptation and veers towards the wrong side of the law. With the help of novice con man Ben (Tom Long), John hatches a scheme to substantiate false claims by taking a percentage of several questionable claims his firm has settled for a fraction of their usual worth. John and Ben are assisted in their illegal business by Louise (Claudia Karvan), a lawyer with a cocaine problem who is also John's lover. But when Louise becomes involved with Ben and demands a bigger share of the money, their already-shaky confidence game begins to collapse.
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On the Beach
Title: On the Beach
Character: Dr. Julian Osborne
Released: May 28, 2000
Type: Movie
The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain by the Australians. The calculations of Australia's most renowned scientist says the country is doomed. However, one of his rivals says that he is wrong. He believes that a 1000 people can be relocated to the northern hemisphere, where his assumptions indicate the radiation levels may be lower. The American Captain is asked to take a mission to the north to determine which scientist is right.
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Grizzly Falls
Title: Grizzly Falls
Character: Tyrone Bankston
Released: November 5, 1999
Type: Movie
When a young boy is captured by a grizzly bear, he begins the most incredible journey of a lifetime, full of breathtaking excitement, harrowing danger and thrilling surprises.
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Title: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Character: Casper Hastings
Released: September 14, 1999
Type: TV
Remake of Jules Verne's classic story finds adventurers seeking a mysterious hidden land. They are joined by the wife of another man, who had previously gone on a similar expedition and disappeared.
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Two Hands
Title: Two Hands
Character: Pando
Released: July 29, 1999
Type: Movie
A 19-year-old finds himself in debt to a local gangster when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile, two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money.
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Dear Claudia
Title: Dear Claudia
Character: Walter Burton
Released: February 25, 1999
Type: Movie
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On the Border
Title: On the Border
Character: Barry Montana
Released: November 19, 1998
Type: Movie
A dumb as rocks security guard in a Texas border town gets involved in a planned bank heist thanks to the charms of two different femmes fatales.
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Dogboys
Title: Dogboys
Character: Captain Robert Brown
Released: April 4, 1998
Type: Movie
Corrupt officers track men for sport with dogs.
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Title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Character: Ned Land
Released: May 11, 1997
Type: TV
New England, 1886: a creature of unknown origin is destroying ships at sea. It is the job of Professor Pierre Aronnax, a marine expert, and Ned Land, the iron willed sailor, to learn the truth about the monster roaming the seas. In their search, they come across the sophisticated submarine Nautilus, secretly cruising under the ocean, and its charismatic captain Nemo.
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Still Twisted
Title: Still Twisted
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Four new mind bending tales where truth takes a detour and nothing is what it seems. The characters in each tale discover that their preconceived notions of reality couldn't be further from the truth.
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Title: Twisted Tales
Character: Host
Released: December 2, 1996
Type: TV
Twisted Tales is an Australian television Anthology and Mystery drama which screened on the Nine Network in 1996. Each episode was narrated by Bryan Brown, who also produced the follow-up series, Two Twisted, in 2006. Each episode of the series contains a twist ending.
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Dead Heart
Title: Dead Heart
Character: Ray Lorkin
Released: September 8, 1996
Type: Movie
Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's aborigine natives and white settlers are on the verge of erupting. When it's discovered that Kate, the white wife of local schoolteacher Les, has despoiled a sacred site by secretly meeting her aborigine lover, Tony, there, a shocking murder threatens to rip the small town apart.
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Twisted Tales
Title: Twisted Tales
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
In a prelude to the series of the same name, Bryan Brown introduces stories of the bizarre and the supernatural. Sometimes serious, often comical, but always with a twist at the end of the story.
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Full Body Massage
Title: Full Body Massage
Character: Fitch
Released: November 5, 1995
Type: Movie
Nina, an art dealer, has her weekly massage appointment and is surprised to find out her usual masseur, Douglas, has sent a replacement named Fitch. The pair develop an easy rapport during the session, with talk about past relationships. As Nina lies topless on the massage table, Fitch also takes time to explain various massage techniques, including those used by Hopi medicine men.
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Title: The Wanderer
Character: Adam/Zachary
Released: September 14, 1994
Type: TV
The Wanderer is a television series of British origin, first transmitted in 1994 and comprising 13 episodes. Every episode brings a new adventure, and the story of long-ago brothers Adam and Zachary, Princess Beatrice, and Lady Clare slowly unfolds as the present-day Adam searches for the original Zachary's grave, a magic stone, and a lost book of power. The show was created by Tom Gabbay, who also served as Executive Producer of the series, which was filmed on locations in Austria, Germany, Spain, and England, including Helmsley Castle and the Yorkshire Moors, by FingerTip Films for Yorkshire Television, ZDF, Antena 3, and SkyTV. In the United States, The Wanderer was transmitted primarily in first-run syndication.
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Age of Treason
Title: Age of Treason
Character: Marcus Didius Falco
Released: June 20, 1993
Type: Movie
It's 69AD in Rome and streetwise hustler Marcus Didius Falco gets caught up in the death of the son of a man close to the new emperor, Vespasian. Hired by the victim's sister to discover the truth, Falco and his newly acquired slave, the gladiator Justus, uncover plots involving a cult which reaches into the Imperial household.
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The Last Hit
Title: The Last Hit
Character: Michael Grant
Released: March 31, 1993
Type: Movie
A retired asassin tries to make himself at home in New Mexico.
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Devlin
Title: Devlin
Character: Frank Devlin
Released: September 12, 1992
Type: Movie
A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.
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Blame It on the Bellboy
Title: Blame It on the Bellboy
Character: Mike Lawton / Charlton Black
Released: March 6, 1992
Type: Movie
Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a lech looking for a little action with a woman he never met, whom he was set up with. And one of them was sent by his employer to inspect a property his boss wants to buy. All three men stay at the same hotel. But when the bellboy gets their names mixed up and gives info meant for someone else. So one of them meets a Realtor who will whatever she has to, to close the sale. And another follows a woman looking for romance. And another goes to the home of the mobster who thinks he's sent there to kill him.
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Dead in the Water
Title: Dead in the Water
Character: Charlie Deegan
Released: December 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Charlie Deegan has almost everything he has ever wanted. He has an important law practice, a beautiful secretary as his lover, and the chance to be appointed to the high court. The only thing wrong with this is that his shrewish wife Olivia, whose father made all the wealth and all the power, is living and that greatly upsets Charlie. So when his lover, Laura, suggests that they get rid of Olivia, Charlie thinks, being a lawyer, that he can create a fool-proof plan. In this plan, he must incorporate a woman named Victoria whom he detests, but she can help him get into the court and be part of the plan for Olivia. But dreams of judgeship, money and Laura makes him proceed. However, things never turn out as planned and he may not be as smart as he considers himself.
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Sweet Talker
Title: Sweet Talker
Character: Harry Reynolds
Released: May 10, 1991
Type: Movie
When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an old Portuguese treasure ship lies buried in the sand. Harry is an old pro at manipulating this situation to his best advantage, but never anticipates how deeply he will be affected by the relationship he develops with a young boy and his mother. A delightful tale of greed, gullibility and grandiose schemes, "Sweet Talker" is a romantic comedy for everyone in the family.
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F/X2
Title: F/X2
Character: Roland 'Rollie' Tyler
Released: April 16, 1991
Type: Movie
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer. The operation goes well until some unknown man kills both the killer and Mike. Mike's boss, Silak says it was the killer who killed Mike but Rollie knows it wasn't. Obviously, Silak is involved with Mike's death, so he calls on Leo McCarthy, the cop from the last movie, who is now a P.I., for help and they discover it's not just Silak they have to worry about.
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Blood Oath
Title: Blood Oath
Character: Captain Cooper
Released: July 26, 1990
Type: Movie
On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of World War II, the liberated POWs tell a gruesome tale of mass executions of over eight hundred persons as well as torture style killings of downed Australian airmen. In an attempt to bring those responsible to justice, the Australian Army establishes a War Crimes Tribunal to pass judgement on the Japanese men and officers who ran the Ambon camp. In an added twist, a high ranking Japanese admiral is implicated, and politics become involoved with justice as American authorities in Japan lobby for the Admiral's release. Written by Anthony Hughes
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Gorillas in the Mist
Title: Gorillas in the Mist
Character: Bob Campbell
Released: September 23, 1988
Type: Movie
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
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Cocktail
Title: Cocktail
Character: Douglas "Doug" Coughlin
Released: July 29, 1988
Type: Movie
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.
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Title: The Shiralee
Character: Macauley
Released: June 26, 1988
Type: TV
Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got.
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The Good Wife
Title: The Good Wife
Character: Sonny Hills
Released: May 14, 1987
Type: Movie
In pre-WWII Australia, a love triangle develops between a man, his wife and the man's brother.
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Tai-Pan
Title: Tai-Pan
Character: Dirk Struan
Released: November 7, 1986
Type: Movie
The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large port that both the British government and various trading companies believe will be useful for the import of merchandise to be traded on mainland China, a highly lucrative market.
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F/X
Title: F/X
Character: Roland 'Rollie' Tyler
Released: February 7, 1986
Type: Movie
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.
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Rebel
Title: Rebel
Character: Tiger
Released: December 5, 1985
Type: Movie
This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating from wounds suffered in battle. He is weary of war and is intent on going AWOL and escaping from Australia. He becomes infatuated with a local singer, Kathy and pursues her. Kathy is married and initially is not interested in him, but later begins to love Rebel. Kathy receives a letter advising her that her husband was killed in battle. The local police and the U.S. Military are searching for Rebel as an AWOL soldier. Rebel arranges to escape Austalia by a cargo ship, but eventually allows himself to be arrested in order to keep the local police from arresting Kathy for harboring him
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The Empty Beach
Title: The Empty Beach
Character: Cliff Hardy
Released: September 12, 1985
Type: Movie
Before shady businessman John Singer disappeared off Bondi Beach, his name meant money--big and small, clean and dirty--a man absorbed in a world of greed and dishonesty. Singer's widow, Marlon, believes he's still alive and she employs the investigative skills of the tough, no-nonsense private eye, Cliff Hardy (Bryan Brown) to find him. Battered and bruised, Hardy battles through the filth of corruption and the stench of political blackmail. He comes face to face with the crime bosses, who feed off human misery and eliminate their rivals without thinking twice. From the high life and low life of Sydney, to the seediness and splendour of Bondi Beach, Cliff Hardy uncovers the ultimate truth.
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Parker
Title: Parker
Character: David Parker
Released: May 3, 1985
Type: Movie
An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.
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Give My Regards to Broad Street
Title: Give My Regards to Broad Street
Character: Steve
Released: November 28, 1984
Type: Movie
When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording company to the lowlife Mr. Rath.
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Kim
Title: Kim
Character: Mahbub Ali
Released: May 16, 1984
Type: Movie
A friendly street kid in India, during the last years of the nineteenth century, looks and considers himself Indian, but is in fact a Brit. The Brits discover his true origin, and train him as a spy.
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Title: Eureka Stockade
Character: Peter Lalor
Released: March 27, 1984
Type: TV
Eureka Stockade is a 1984 Australian miniseries based on the battle of Eureka Stockade. It reunited the producer, writer, director and star of A Town Like Alice.
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Title: The Thorn Birds
Character: Luke O'Neill
Released: March 27, 1983
Type: TV
The story based on a novel by Colleen McCullough focuses on three generations of the Cleary family living on a sheep station in the Australian outback.
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Far East
Title: Far East
Character: Morgan Keefe
Released: July 30, 1982
Type: Movie
A cynical Australian Vietnam War veteran runs a sleazy bar in the Philippines. His old flame enters his life again asking for help when her husband, an investigative journalist, is prosecuted by the junta for discovering too much.
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Winter of Our Dreams
Title: Winter of Our Dreams
Character: Rob
Released: July 31, 1981
Type: Movie
When a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of a former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and meets her friend, a prostitute. They hook up, but when she finds her friend's diary, she discovers she's repeating her mistakes.
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Title: A Town Like Alice
Character: Joe Harman
Released: July 12, 1981
Type: TV
Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
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Blood Money
Title: Blood Money
Character: Brian Shields
Released: October 23, 1980
Type: Movie
A dying criminal takes his younger brother on one final job so that when the final hour comes, his brother and his brother's wife and daughter who he himself may have fathered, will be financially secured.
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Breaker Morant
Title: Breaker Morant
Character: Lt. Peter Handcock
Released: June 11, 1980
Type: Movie
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
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Stir
Title: Stir
Character: China Jackson
Released: May 11, 1980
Type: Movie
Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
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Palm Beach
Title: Palm Beach
Character: Paul Kite
Released: March 6, 1980
Type: Movie
The stories involving surfing and drugs are followed in Sydney over two days.
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Cathy's Child
Title: Cathy's Child
Character: Paul Nicholson
Released: July 5, 1979
Type: Movie
Cathy Baikas is a woman of Greek heritage who lives in Sydney, Australia with her three-year-old daughter. When her daughter's father kidnaps the child and takes her back to Greece, Cathy discovers the authorities can do little to help her. She turns to the media. The editor of a major daily newspaper proves sympathetic to Cathy's problem and begins giving her case press coverage. The film is based on a true story.
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The Odd Angry Shot
Title: The Odd Angry Shot
Character: Rogers
Released: March 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
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Money Movers
Title: Money Movers
Character: Brian Jackson
Released: October 24, 1978
Type: Movie
A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.
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Title: Against the Wind
Character: Michael Connor
Released: September 12, 1978
Type: TV
Against the Wind was a 1978 Australian television mini-series. It is a historical drama portraying both the British rule of Ireland, and the development of New South Wales and Australia. The producers were Bronwyn Binns, Ian Jones and Henry Crawford. The directors were George T. Miller and Simon Wincer. The scriptwriters were Bronwyn Binns, Ian Jones, Peter Kinlock, Tony Morphett, Paul Davies and Cliff Green. Jon English won the Logie Award in 1979 for "Best new talent" for his role in the miniseries as "Jonathan Garrett". The complete series is now available on DVD in Australia, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands in PAL format. It is also available in North American format.
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Newsfront
Title: Newsfront
Character: Geoff
Released: July 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.
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Weekend of Shadows
Title: Weekend of Shadows
Character: Bennett
Released: June 28, 1978
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Title: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Character: Shearer
Released: June 21, 1978
Type: Movie
The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
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Third Person Plural
Title: Third Person Plural
Character: Mark
Released: June 2, 1978
Type: Movie
Four young people get to know each other by spending weekends on a yacht stationed in Sydney's Pittwater area.
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The Irishman
Title: The Irishman
Released: February 28, 1978
Type: Movie
Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, the last of the draught-horse teamsters, continues to haul timber the old way.
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The Love Letters from Teralba Road
Title: The Love Letters from Teralba Road
Released: January 2, 1977
Type: Movie
A violent man (Bryan Brown), who ostensibly has a slight mental illness due to fillings in his teeth, continues to write letters to his estranged girlfriend, Kris McQuade. She sees that he expresses himself more dearly in his letters and he is still quick tempered when they try to rekindle their relationship.
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Scobie Malone
Title: Scobie Malone
Character: Policeman (as Brian Bronn)
Released: October 3, 1975
Type: Movie
Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone and his offsider investigate the murder of Helga, whose corpse is found in the basement of the Sydney Opera House.
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The Christmas Tree
Title: The Christmas Tree
Character: axeman
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Three lucky pine trees, with human faces, are cut down in order to enjoy the holidays with human families.