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Bryan Brown

Bryan Brown

Birthday: 1947-06-23 | Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Bryan Neathway Brown (born 23 June 1947) is an Australian actor. Early life Brown was born in Sydney, the son of John (Jack) Brown and Molly Brown, a house cleaner and pianist in the early days of the Langshaw School of Ballet. He grew up in the south-western Sydney suburb of Bankstown, and began working at AMP as an actuarial student. He started to act in amateur theatre performances, where he discovered a passion for acting. Career Brown went to England in 1964, eventually winning minor roles at the Old Vic. He returned to Australia where he became a member of the Genesian Theatre, Sydney, appearing in Colleen Clifford's production of A Man for All Seasons, before joining the Queensland Theatre Company. He made his cinema debut in 1977 with a small role in The Love Letters from Teralba Road, and appeared in several more Australian films over the next two years. In 1980 Brown became known to international audiences for his performance in Breaker Morant. While he continued appearing in Australian productions he also appeared in American TV mini-series, winning popularity in the United States in A Town Like Alice (1981). He is best known to American television audiences for his Golden Globe and Emmy nominated role as Luke O'Neil in The Thorn Birds (1983), starring Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward, who he later married. He starred in several international productions, including Tai-Pan, with Joan Chen, Gorillas in the Mist, with Sigourney Weaver, and Cocktail, with Tom Cruise. He is one of the few Australian actors who regularly plays Australians, thereby retaining his accent. Two exceptions are Tai-Pan and his role in the TV series Against the Wind, which called for an Irish accent.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
Hungry Ghosts

as    Neil Stockton

2019
Palm Beach

as    Frank

2019
Bloom

as    Ray Reed

2018
Sweet Country

as    Sergeant Fletcher

2016
Red Dog: True Blue

as    Grandpa

2016
Gods of Egypt

as    Osiris

2016
The Light Between Oceans

as    Septimus Potts

2015
Kill Me Three Times

as    Bruce Jones

2015
Deadline Gallipoli

as    Gen. Bridges

2013
An Accidental Soldier

as    Captain Foster

2013
The Darkside

as    Graham

2013
Better Man

as    Lex Lasry

2011
Love Birds

as    Dr. Buster

2009
Beautiful Kate

as    Bruce Kendall

2008
Australia

as    King Carney

2008
Cactus

as    Rosco

2008
Dean Spanley

as    Wrather

2007
2005
The Poseidon Adventure

as    Jeffrey Eric Anderson

2005
Spring Break Shark Attack

as    Joel Gately

2005
Two Hands

as    Pando

2004
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

as    Hal Thorne

2004
Along Came Polly

as    Leland Van Lew

2003
Footsteps

as    Eddie Bruno

2002
Dirty Deeds

as    Barry Ryan

2001
Styx

as    Art

2001
Risk

as    John Kriesky

1999
Journey to the Center of the Earth

as    Casper Hastings