Brian O'Shaughnessy

Brian O'Shaughnessy

Born: May 5, 1931
Died: July 14, 2001
in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
Brian O'Shaughnessy was born on May 5, 1931 in Aldershot, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), Shangani Patrol (1970) and Fraud! (1974). He died on July 14, 2001 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Movies for Brian O'Shaughnessy...

Falling Rocks
Title: Falling Rocks
Character: Pilot
Released: June 29, 2000
Type: Movie
6 Friends, 1 Killer, No Mercy! Slow moving thriller that builds up towards a nerve wrecking end.
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Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday
Title: Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday
Character: Admiral Norman Henshaw
Released: April 10, 1998
Type: Movie
A ship captained by the father of the leader of Delta Force is taken hostage by terrorists. As might be expected the force is sent in to stop them.
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Orion's Key
Title: Orion's Key
Character: Professor Morton
Released: April 22, 1997
Type: Movie
After two archaeologists discover an ancient alien artifact in Africa, they must run for their lives from both the unstoppable guardian and protector that awakens as a result, and their greedy, madman employer, both of whom want the artifact.
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Warhead
Title: Warhead
Released: May 22, 1996
Type: Movie
Terrorists seize an American nuclear missile site and threaten to launch the missiles at Washington unless the President resigns immediately and $1 billion is placed in a Swiss account in 8 hours.
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Hearts & Minds
Title: Hearts & Minds
Character: Col. van Vuuren
Released: August 29, 1995
Type: Movie
In the final days of the pro-apartheid government, bigoted policeman and assassin Andries Fourie is assigned an undercover job. His task is to pose as a political progressive to infiltrate the African National Congress and assassinate one of the party’s leaders.
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Acts: The Acts of the Apostles
Title: Acts: The Acts of the Apostles
Character: Roman Commander
Released: October 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Journey alongside Luke as he documents the joys, hardships and miracles of the early Christian church in this Word for Word (NIV), full dramatized film of the Acts of the Apostles. Be there as Saul of Tarsus is confronted by Jesus on the Damascus Road. Stand among the throngs to witness Peter's Pentecost message.
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Arende
Title: Arende
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Epic drama of honor, passion and freedom set during the Anglo-Boer War and follows the bound fates of rebellious Boer farmer Sloet Steenkamp and Captain of the British Army James Kerwin. A period drama of a time when Britain colonised by might in Southern Africa. Sloet was a Cape Colonist who refused to surrender to the new rule, and was one of the Cape rebels. After being captured he and many others were taken captive and sent to British concentration camps in Saint Helena where Sloet was doomed to stay forever
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The Power of One
Title: The Power of One
Character: Col. Bretyn
Released: March 27, 1992
Type: Movie
PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with the motto “fight with your fists and lead with your heart”. As he grows to manhood, PK uses these words to take on the system and the injustices he sees around him - and finds that one person really can make a difference.
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The Fourth Reich
Title: The Fourth Reich
Character: Major Ellis
Released: October 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Robey Leibbrandt was a South African boxer who became fascinated with Nazi ideology during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In1939 he led an operation to overthrow the pro-Allied government of General Jan Smuts.
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The Emissary
Title: The Emissary
Released: December 8, 1989
Type: Movie
Jack Cavanaugh, handpicked by the US president, is a hard-nosed diplomat constantly on the move between hot-spots around the world. When Russia's KGB use his wife to get access to a top secret computer system, the world's future is at stake. Time is running short and Cavanaugh see no other way out than to take on the foreign agents himself.
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Brutal Glory
Title: Brutal Glory
Released: September 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The highly fictionalized making and breaking of Norman Selby, more recognizable as Kid McCoy, the real life American middleweight world boxing champion from the turn of the 20th century.
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Mutator
Title: Mutator
Character: Axelrod
Released: May 15, 1989
Type: Movie
A beast gets loose in a laboratory, killing all in it's way. A former scientist, now working as a custodian tries to stop it.
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The Evil Below
Title: The Evil Below
Character: Father Shannon
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A down-on-his-luck sea captain goes treasure hunting for a wrecked Spanish galleon that is rumored to be cursed by God and protected by supernatural forces.
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Merchants of War
Title: Merchants of War
Character: James Sullivan (as Brian O'Shaugnessy)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The heroes are best friends and commandos sent on a covert mission by the CIA. The mission is a success, but the two incur the wrath of the world's most feared terrorist, a fanatical Islamic, when they set out to do one last mission.
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White Ghost
Title: White Ghost
Character: John Enrlich
Released: November 18, 1988
Type: Movie
July '72. Vietnam. Lt. Steve Shepard missing in action. Presumed dead...15 years later he's still there.
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Act of Piracy
Title: Act of Piracy
Character: 'Barracuda' Skipper
Released: July 7, 1988
Type: Movie
A large motor yacht becomes the focal point in this action tale when a group of mercenaries decide to capture the vessel. The original owner, who was delivering it to Sydney, Australia, is believed dead but is in fact very much alive, and determined to recover the yacht...
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Operation Hit Squad
Title: Operation Hit Squad
Character: Richard
Released: September 10, 1987
Type: Movie
A couple of rich women get captured by a group of terrorists, a crack team of mercenaries called Operation Hit Squad are called in to rescue them.
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Title: Morenga
Character: Herr Lüdemann
Released: March 13, 1985
Type: TV
Gottschalk and Wenstrup are two German veterinarians who have settled in German Southwest Africa to tend to the needs of cattle ranchers. When a rebellion by a local dissident named Morenga is brutally crushed by the Germans, the two vets get involved, at great risk to themselves, and offer help to the native revolutionaries.
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Morenga
Title: Morenga
Character: Herr Lüdemann
Released: February 16, 1985
Type: Movie
Set in 1904, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins.
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Title: Wasted Spring
Character: Jan Greyling
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: TV
Pop le Roux is a beautiful, but relatively uneducated, boer girl from a poor family. The young men of the county all compete with each other to win her favor. The man she loves is Manie Cronjé, He is just as poor and Pop sees no chance of suffering further. She eventually marries Jan Greyling, the rich widower. Gradually she adapts to her new life and becomes a good wife for Jan.
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Claws
Title: Claws
Character: Louw's Father
Released: October 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Set on a lonely South African farm, in the 1920’s. The film revolves around a young boy who is forced into manhood when his father is injured in a riding accident and he is left to fend for himself. The boy is terrorized by an unseen animal.
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Title: Auf Achse
Character: Smidson
Released: October 28, 1980
Type: TV
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The Gods Must Be Crazy
Title: The Gods Must Be Crazy
Character: Mr. Thompson
Released: September 10, 1980
Type: Movie
A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.
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Zulu Dawn
Title: Zulu Dawn
Character: Maj. Smith R.A.
Released: May 14, 1979
Type: Movie
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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Decision to Die
Title: Decision to Die
Character: Dr. Leon Walters
Released: September 6, 1978
Type: Movie
South African Film
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Mister Deathman
Title: Mister Deathman
Character: Colonel Duncan
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.
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...und die Nacht kennt kein Erbarmen
Title: ...und die Nacht kennt kein Erbarmen
Character: Dr. Page
Released: September 23, 1974
Type: Movie
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Mr. Kingstreet's War
Title: Mr. Kingstreet's War
Character: Morgan
Released: May 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the waterholes.
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Rogue Lion
Title: Rogue Lion
Character: Alec Dudley
Released: June 5, 1972
Type: Movie
In South Africa a new young ranger is transferred to a troubled game reserve. He struggles to be accepted by, and help, his boss, fending off poachers and intruding natives, and gets involved with a poacher's daughter he knew from university.
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Creatures the World Forgot
Title: Creatures the World Forgot
Character: Mak
Released: September 1, 1971
Type: Movie
As the first nomadic tribes wander across the vast wilderness of the infant planet they confront hostilities created by the harsh environment and each other. After a massive volcanic eruption a tribal chief is killed and his two sons fight for supremacy, not only for the leadership of the tribe but also for the love of a beautiful young woman. The age-old battlegrounds of rivalry, envy and passion are explored in this tale of prehistoric adventure.
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Pressure Burst
Title: Pressure Burst
Released: March 19, 1971
Type: Movie
South African Movie
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Shangani Patrol
Title: Shangani Patrol
Character: Maj. Allen Wilson
Released: December 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Set in the First Matabele War in what was then Rhodesia; a scouting group from the British South African Company are chasing the Ndebele king Lobengula when they are ambushed by a massive Ndebele forced and must take a desperate last stand.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Piet Brügge
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Satan's Harvest
Title: Satan's Harvest
Character: Andrew Murdock
Released: February 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Cutter Murdock inherits an estate in Africa on which "Satan's Harvest" (heroin and marijuana) is grown. The thugs growing the drugs want him out of the way, so things get messy.
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Strangers at Sunrise
Title: Strangers at Sunrise
Released: August 7, 1969
Type: Movie
In the Transvaal, in 1900, the British army condemns to death an American mining engineer for aiding and abetting the Boer enemy. The engineer escapes from custody and takes refuge at an isolated Boer farm. When three deserters from the British army arrive on the scene, the engineer takes steps to protect himself and the Boer family.
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Danie Bosman: The Story of the Greatest South African composer
Title: Danie Bosman: The Story of the Greatest South African composer
Character: Dr. Rodney Masters
Released: June 18, 1969
Type: Movie
Danie Bosman is a civil servant dreaming of being a composer. But this is Depression-era South Africa and no one is interested in buying his music. Then, one day, someone hears a song he composed for his son.
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Sandy the Seal
Title: Sandy the Seal
Character: Mackenzie
Released: October 23, 1968
Type: Movie
When a lighthouse keeper takes in a seal in need and gives to his children to look after, the whole family is drawn into the shadowy world of illegal seal poaching. The family then finds themselves leading the fight to rid their coastal town of the criminals and save the seals.
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Kavaliers
Title: Kavaliers
Character: Capt. Ronald Rogers
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: Movie
General de Wet asks Boer soldier and Kavalier leader Chris Botha to select 100 of his best men for a “suicide mission” behind enemy lines. First the Kavaliers steal ammunition from right under the noses of the British, and then they leave behind a note taunting the enemy about it.
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African Gold
Title: African Gold
Released: September 8, 1965
Type: Movie
The sky lights up and the desert comes alive on this desperate search for hidden millions.
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Diamond Walkers
Title: Diamond Walkers
Character: Barrett
Released: August 20, 1965
Type: Movie
Drama among diamond smugglers and gold fever in South African bush.
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Seven Against the Sun
Title: Seven Against the Sun
Character: Macarthy
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: Movie
In February of 1941, South African troops are in action against the Italian forces on the northern frontier of Kenya. An Italian invasion, aimed at pushing the Allied Forces out of Central and East Africa, is imminent. The South African Command realizes it has no forces at its disposal capable of stopping the Italian objective, so they resort to a grand bluff...
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Die Ruiter in die Nag
Title: Die Ruiter in die Nag
Character: Captain Ricky
Released: August 30, 1963
Type: Movie
It’s 1901, and at Stilhoek the British are planning to cut off a Boer garrison based in the Free State. An officer ordered to find sympathetic local farmers befriends quiet-spoken Sarel Gereke.
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Stropers van die Laeveld
Title: Stropers van die Laeveld
Released: June 22, 1962
Type: Movie
South African Western