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Bryan Brown
Highest Rated: 100% Red Dog: True Blue (2016)
Lowest Rated: 9% Cocktail (1988)
Birthday: Jun 23, 1947
Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The virile yet thoughtful lead of numerous Australian features in the 1970s and 1980s, including such landmark films as "Breaker Morant" (1980) and "Stir" (1980), Bryan Brown's sturdy performances brought him to Hollywood in the 1980s, where he essayed largely one-dimensional figures in "F/X" (1986) and "Cocktail" (1988). He was better served in more independent-minded fare, where his ability to root out and examine the flaws of these stoic figures was put to better use; Brown would later give more nuanced turns in Australian-made fare like "Two Hands" (1999), with Heath Ledger, and "Dirty Deeds" (2002). A leading figure in that country's film and television career for over three decades, Brown's body of work commanded and received the respect due to a versatile performer who favored quality over box office returns.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55% | 87% | Anyone But You | Unknown (Character) | $88.1M | 2023 |
| 48% | 31% | Palm Beach |
Frank (Character), Producer |
- | 2019 |
| 96% | 71% | Sweet Country | Sergeant Fletcher (Character) | $85.6K | 2017 |
| 53% | 41% | Australia Day | Unknown (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 100% | 69% | Red Dog: True Blue | Grandpa (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 62% | 61% | The Light Between Oceans | Septimus Potts (Character) | $12.5M | 2016 |
| 14% | 37% | Gods of Egypt | Osiris (Character) | $31.1M | 2016 |
| 16% | 30% | Kill Me Three Times | Bruce Jones (Character) | $23.8K | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | An Accidental Soldier | Captain Foster (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | The Darkside | Unknown (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Love Birds | Dr. Buster (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 72% | Limbo | Daniel (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 84% | 64% | Beautiful Kate |
Bruce (Character), Producer |
- | 2009 |
| 88% | 81% | Dean Spanley | Wrather (Character) | - | 2008 |
| 54% | 65% | Australia | King Carney (Character) | $49.6M | 2008 |
| 45% | 32% | Cactus |
Rosco (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 32% | Spring Break Shark Attack | Joel Gately (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | The Poseidon Adventure | Jeffrey Eric Anderson (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 27% | 47% | Along Came Polly | Leland Van Lew (Character) | $87.9M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman | Hal Thorne (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Footsteps | Eddie Bruno (Character) | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Martha's New Coat | Executive Producer | - | 2003 |
| 64% | 51% | Negocios Sucios | Unknown (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dirty Deeds |
Barry (Character), Producer |
- | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Styx | Art (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 80% | 50% | Risk | John Kriesky (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 50% | 35% | Grizzly Falls | Tyrone Bankston (Character) | $163.3K | 2000 |
| 60% | 66% | On the Beach | Unknown (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 60% | 40% | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Casper Hastings (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 75% | 80% | Two Hands | Pando (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dear Claudia | Walter Burton (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Dogboys | Captain Robert Brown (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 10% | On the Border | Barry Montana (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Dead Heart |
Ray Lorkin (Character), Producer |
- | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Twisted I |
Unknown (Character), Producer |
- | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 46% | Full Body Massage | Fitch (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Age of Treason | Marcus Didius Falco (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Hit | Michael Grant (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 19% | 39% | Blame It on the Bellboy |
Mike Lawton/ |
$3.0M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Devlin | Frank Devlin (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Dead in the Water | Charlie Deegan (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 38% | 36% | FX2 | Rollie Tyler (Character) | $21.0M | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Prisoners of the Sun | Captain Cooper (Character) | $11.7K | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sweet Talker | Harry Reynolds (Character) | $364.3K | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | The Shiralee | Macauley (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Macauley's Daughter | Macauley (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 84% | 75% | Gorillas in the Mist | Bob Campbell (Character) | $22.6M | 1988 |
| 9% | 58% | Cocktail | Douglas 'Doug' Coughlin (Character) | $77.3M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | The Good Wife | Sonny Hills (Character) | $470.1K | 1986 |
| 89% | 54% | F/X | Roland "Rollie" Tyler (Character) | $19.9M | 1986 |
| 14% | 39% | Tai-Pan | Dirk Struan (Character) | $3.8M | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Rebel | Tiger (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Empty Beach | Cliff Hardy (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bones | David Parker (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Parker | David Parker (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Kim | Mahbub Ali (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 25% | 30% | Give My Regards to Broad Street | Steve (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Far East | Morgan Keefe (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | The Winter of Our Dreams | Rob (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eureka Stockade | Peter Lalor (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 100% | 91% | Breaker Morant | Lt. Peter Handcock (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Town Like Alice: The War Years | Joe Harman (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Town Like Alice: A Love Story | Joe Harman (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Town Called Alice: The War Years | Joe Harman (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | A Town Like Alice | Joe Harman (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rape of Malaya | Joe Harman (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Palm Beach | Paul Kite (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stir | Unknown (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Money Movers | Brian Jackson (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | The Odd Angry Shot | Rogers (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cathy's Child | Nicko (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 80% | 57% | Newsfront | Geoff (Character) | - | 1978 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87% | 86% | Boy Swallows Universe | Slim Halliday (Character) | 2024 |
| 56% | 82% | Australia : Faraway Downs | King Carney (Character) | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | C*A*U*G*H*T | Unknown (Character) | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Darby and Joan | Jack Darby (Character) | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bloom | Ray Reed (Character) | 2018 2020 |
| 93% | 90% | The Good Wife | Jack Copeland (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Poseidon Adventure | Jeffrey Eric Anderson (Character) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Unknown (Character) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thorn Birds | Luke O'Neill (Character) | 1983 |