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 a...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Travellers
2025
as Fred
Stephen Seary, a stage designer, returns to Australia to visit his dying mother, but a quick trip descends into family tensions, past conflicts, and r...

Anyone But You
2023
as Roger
After an amazing first date, Bea and Ben’s fiery attraction turns ice cold — until they find themselves unexpectedly reunited at a destination wedding...

Rachel's Farm
2023
as Self
Award-winning film director and actress Rachel Ward is the last person you’d expect to join a farming revolution. Following the birth of her first gra...

Palm Beach
2019
as Frank
A group of lifelong friends reunite to celebrate a special birthday, with Sydney's iconic Palm Beach providing a stunning backdrop for the unfolding d...

Palm Beach
2019
Producer
A group of lifelong friends reunite to celebrate a special birthday, with Sydney's iconic Palm Beach providing a stunning backdrop for the unfolding d...

Peter Rabbit
2018
as Mr. Rabbit (voice)
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 ...

Sweet Country
2018
as Sergeant Fletcher
In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.

Australia Day
2017
as Terry Friedman
On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contem...

David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
2017
as Self
A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood c...

Red Dog: True Blue
2016
as Grandpa
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...

The Light Between Oceans
2016
as Septimus Potts
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

Gods of Egypt
2016
as Osiris
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

Kill Me Three Times
2015
as Bruce Jones
While on a seemingly routine job, a jaded hit man discovers that he's not the only one with his target in the crosshairs.

The Darkside
2013
as Graham
Writer and Director Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of the most poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost stories from around Australia. He wi...

An Accidental Soldier
2013
as Captain Foster
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...

Love Birds
2011
as Dr. Buster
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 a...

Limbo
2010
as Daniel
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...

Beautiful Kate
2009
as Bruce Kendall
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 yo...

Beautiful Kate
2009
Producer
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 yo...

Dean Spanley
2008
as Wrather
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 af...

Australia
2008
as King Carney
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 pro...

Cactus
2008
as Rosco
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...

Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback
2007
as Rex Wild
After surviving the terrifying outback abduction of her boyfriend, Joanne Lees became the victim of a relentless trial by media across two continents....

The Poseidon Adventure
2005
as Jeffrey Eric Anderson
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 securit...

Spring Break Shark Attack
2005
as Joel Gately
A young teenager travels to Florida, unknowing that a group of dangerous tiger sharks are ravaging the beach.

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
2004
as Hal Thorne
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...

Along Came Polly
2004
as Leland Van Lew
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 mome...

Footsteps
2003
as Eddie Bruno
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 a...
Martha's New Coat
2003
Producer
It's Martha's birthday and the day is not turning out so well. Martha decides to get out of town and seek some excitement on the coast.

Dirty Deeds
2002
as Barry Ryan
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 ...

The Big House
2001
Executive Producer
Within the concrete confines of a life sentence, one man rediscovers his capacity for love.

Styx
2001
as Art
Nelson puts his criminal ways behind him, having spent years as a first-rate safecracker. This resolution lasts until his brother finds himself owing ...

Mullet
2001
as Publican (voice)
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...

Risk
2001
as John Kriesky
Three people discover jealousy and larceny are a dangerous combination in this tense drama. John (Bryan Brown) is a veteran insurance investigator who...

On the Beach
2000
as Dr. Julian Osborne
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 floati...

Grizzly Falls
1999
as Tyrone Bankston
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...

Two Hands
1999
as Pando
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 ...

Full Body Massage
1999
as Fitch
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. T...

Dear Claudia
1999
as Walter Burton

Voyage au centre de la terre
1999
as Casper hastings

On the Border
1998
as Barry Montana
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.

Dogboys
1998
as Captain Robert Brown
Marine veteran and former middleweight boxing champion Julian Taylor loses control in a bar fight and ends up serving time for aggravated assault. Soo...

Still Twisted
1997
Executive Producer, Producer
Four unsuspecting victims are hurled into a twisted and altered reality: ... a young woman tries to flee a hit-and-run with destiny... an ex-ballroom ...

Twisted
1997
as Jack Jackson (segment 'The Confident Man')
Four unsuspecting victims find themselves beyond "The Twilight Zone" in a twisted and altered reality: an airline passenger thinks he's lost his ident...

Twisted
1997
Executive Producer, Producer
Four unsuspecting victims find themselves beyond "The Twilight Zone" in a twisted and altered reality: an airline passenger thinks he's lost his ident...

Dead Heart
1996
as Ray Lorkin
Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's aborigine natives...

Age of Treason
1993
as Marcus Didius Falco
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. Hire...

The Last Hit
1993
as Michael Grant
A retired asassin tries to make himself at home in New Mexico.

Devlin
1992
as Frank Devlin
A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.

Blame It on the Bellboy
1992
as Mike Lawton / Charlton Black
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...

Dead in the Water
1991
as Charlie Deegan
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 ap...

Sweet Talker
1991
as Harry Reynolds
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 ol...

Sweet Talker
1991
Story
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 ol...

F/X2
1991
as Roland 'Rollie' Tyler
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 goe...

F/X2
1991
Executive Producer
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 goe...

Blood Oath
1990
as Captain Cooper
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...

Gorillas in the Mist
1988
as Bob Campbell
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Cocktail
1988
as Douglas "Doug" Coughlin
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 ar...

The Good Wife
1987
as Sonny Hills
In pre-WWII Australia, a love triangle develops between a man, his wife and the man's brother.

Tai-Pan
1986
as Dirk Struan
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 ...

F/X
1986
as Roland 'Rollie' Tyler
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 hi...

Rebel
1985
as Tiger
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...

The Empty Beach
1985
as Cliff Hardy
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 g...

Parker
1985
as David Parker
An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.

Give My Regards to Broad Street
1984
as Steve
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...

Kim
1984
as Mahbub Ali
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 ...

Far East
1982
as Morgan Keefe
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, a...

Winter of Our Dreams
1981
as Rob
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 ho...

Blood Money
1980
as Brian Shields
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 ...

Breaker Morant
1980
as Lt. Peter Handcock
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as sca...

Stir
1980
as China Jackson
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 Bathu...

Palm Beach
1980
as Paul Kite
The stories involving surfing and drugs are followed in Sydney over two days.

Cathy's Child
1979
as Paul Nicholson
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 chil...

The Odd Angry Shot
1979
as Rogers
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...

Money Movers
1978
as Brian Jackson
A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.

Newsfront
1978
as Geoff
Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing tim...

Weekend of Shadows
1978
as Bennett
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.

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1978
as Shearer
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 horrif...

Third Person Plural
1978
as Mark
Four young people get to know each other by spending weekends on a yacht stationed in Sydney's Pittwater area.

The Irishman
1978
as Eric Haywood
Paddy Doolan 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 th...

The Love Letters from Teralba Road
1977
as Len
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 girl...

Scobie Malone
1975
as Policeman (as Brian Bronn)
Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone and his offsider investigate the murder of Helga, whose corpse is found in the basement of the Sydney...

The Christmas Tree
1975
as axeman
Three lucky pine trees, with human faces, are cut down in order to enjoy the holidays with human families.