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Bryan Brown

Acting

Born June 23, 1947 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

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 English-Australian actress-director Rachal Ward on the set of the TV mini-series "The Thorn Birds" in 1983 and married her 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.

Awards & recognition

  • Member of the Order of Australia · 2005

Filmography47 titles

The Darkside

2013as Graham

The Good Wife

2009as Jack Copeland

The Newsreader

2021as Bryan Brown (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dean Spanley

2008as Wrather

Boy Swallows Universe

2024as Arthur 'Slim' Halliday

The Thorn Birds

1983as Luke O'Neill

The Light Between Oceans

2016as Septimus Potts

Breaker Morant

1980as Lt. Peter Handcock

Gorillas in the Mist

1988as Bob Campbell

Faraway Downs

2023as King Carney

Anyone But You

2023as Roger

The Shiralee

as Macauley

Peter Rabbit

2018as Mr. Rabbit (voice)

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

1978as Shearer

Sweet Country

2017as Sergeant Fletcher

Red Dog: True Blue

2016as Grandpa

Australia

2008as King Carney

Two Hands

1999as Pando

F/X

1986as Roland 'Rollie' Tyler

Stir

1980as China Jackson

Age of Treason

1993as Marcus Didius Falco

F/X2

1991as Roland 'Rollie' Tyler

On the Beach

2000as Dr. Julian Osborne

Cocktail

1988as Douglas "Doug" Coughlin

Money Movers

1978as Brian Jackson

Darby and Joan

2022as Jack Darby

Along Came Polly

2004as Leland Van Lew

Love Birds

2011as Dr. Buster

Grizzly Falls

1999as Tyrone Bankston

Dogboys

1998as Captain Robert Brown

Journey to the Center of the Earth

as Casper Hastings

Footsteps

2003as Eddie Bruno

Gods of Egypt

2016as Osiris

Beautiful Kate

2009as Bruce Kendall

The Travellers

2025as Fred

Kill Me Three Times

2014as Bruce Jones

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

2004as Hal Thorne

Newsfront

1978as Geoff

Palm Beach

2019as Frank

Blame It on the Bellboy

1992as Mike Lawton / Charlton Black

Sweet Talker

1991as Harry Reynolds

The Poseidon Adventure

2005as Jeffrey Eric Anderson

Tai-Pan

1986as Dirk Struan

The Good Wife

1987as Sonny Hills

On the Border

1998as Barry Montana

C*A*U*G*H*T

as Warren Whistle

The Moth Effect