Bryan Brown

Bryan Brown

1947-06-23 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 83 Credits

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...

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The Travellers

2025

as Fred

Acting

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

Anyone But You

2023

as Roger

6.9
Acting

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

Rachel's Farm

2023

as Self

7.5
Acting

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

Palm Beach

2019

as Frank

5.3
Acting

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

Palm Beach

2019

Producer

5.3
Producing

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

Peter Rabbit

2018

as Mr. Rabbit (voice)

6.7
Acting

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

Sweet Country

2018

as Sergeant Fletcher

6.7
Acting

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

Australia Day

2017

as Terry Friedman

5.5
Acting

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

David Stratton: A Cinematic Life

2017

as Self

3.8
Acting

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

Red Dog: True Blue

2016

as Grandpa

6.5
Acting

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

The Light Between Oceans

2016

as Septimus Potts

7.1
Acting

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

Gods of Egypt

2016

as Osiris

5.7
Acting

A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

Kill Me Three Times

Kill Me Three Times

2015

as Bruce Jones

5.6
Acting

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

The Darkside

2013

as Graham

9.0
Acting

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

An Accidental Soldier

2013

as Captain Foster

5.9
Acting

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

Love Birds

2011

as Dr. Buster

5.9
Acting

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

Limbo

2010

as Daniel

5.4
Acting

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

Beautiful Kate

2009

as Bruce Kendall

5.7
Acting

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

Beautiful Kate

2009

Producer

5.7
Producing

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

Dean Spanley

2008

as Wrather

7.4
Acting

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

Australia

2008

as King Carney

6.6
Acting

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

Cactus

2008

as Rosco

5.2
Acting

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

Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback

2007

as Rex Wild

6.0
Acting

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

The Poseidon Adventure

2005

as Jeffrey Eric Anderson

5.2
Acting

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

Spring Break Shark Attack

2005

as Joel Gately

4.8
Acting

A young teenager travels to Florida, unknowing that a group of dangerous tiger sharks are ravaging the beach.

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

2004

as Hal Thorne

5.0
Acting

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

Along Came Polly

2004

as Leland Van Lew

6.0
Acting

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

Footsteps

2003

as Eddie Bruno

5.6
Acting

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

6.0
Producing

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

Dirty Deeds

2002

as Barry Ryan

5.6
Acting

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

The Big House

2001

Executive Producer

3.0
Producing

Within the concrete confines of a life sentence, one man rediscovers his capacity for love.

Styx

Styx

2001

as Art

3.7
Acting

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

Mullet

2001

as Publican (voice)

5.2
Acting

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

Risk

2001

as John Kriesky

4.9
Acting

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

On the Beach

2000

as Dr. Julian Osborne

6.2
Acting

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

Grizzly Falls

1999

as Tyrone Bankston

5.9
Acting

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

Two Hands

1999

as Pando

6.6
Acting

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

Full Body Massage

1999

as Fitch

5.4
Acting

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

Dear Claudia

1999

as Walter Burton

5.6
Acting
Voyage au centre de la terre

Voyage au centre de la terre

1999

as Casper hastings

Acting
On the Border

On the Border

1998

as Barry Montana

4.7
Acting

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

Dogboys

1998

as Captain Robert Brown

5.4
Acting

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

Still Twisted

1997

Executive Producer, Producer

Producing

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

Twisted

1997

as Jack Jackson (segment 'The Confident Man')

Acting

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

Twisted

1997

Executive Producer, Producer

Producing

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

Dead Heart

1996

as Ray Lorkin

6.0
Acting

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

Age of Treason

1993

as Marcus Didius Falco

5.8
Acting

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

The Last Hit

1993

as Michael Grant

5.0
Acting

A retired asassin tries to make himself at home in New Mexico.

Devlin

Devlin

1992

as Frank Devlin

5.0
Acting

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

Blame It on the Bellboy

Blame It on the Bellboy

1992

as Mike Lawton / Charlton Black

5.4
Acting

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

Dead in the Water

1991

as Charlie Deegan

5.2
Acting

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

Sweet Talker

1991

as Harry Reynolds

4.8
Acting

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

Sweet Talker

1991

Story

4.8
Writing

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

F/X2

1991

as Roland 'Rollie' Tyler

6.3
Acting

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

F/X2

1991

Executive Producer

6.3
Producing

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

Blood Oath

1990

as Captain Cooper

5.4
Acting

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

Gorillas in the Mist

1988

as Bob Campbell

7.0
Acting

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Cocktail

Cocktail

1988

as Douglas "Doug" Coughlin

6.1
Acting

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

The Good Wife

1987

as Sonny Hills

4.8
Acting

In pre-WWII Australia, a love triangle develops between a man, his wife and the man's brother.

Tai-Pan

Tai-Pan

1986

as Dirk Struan

5.2
Acting

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

F/X

1986

as Roland 'Rollie' Tyler

6.6
Acting

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

Rebel

1985

as Tiger

5.0
Acting

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

The Empty Beach

1985

as Cliff Hardy

3.2
Acting

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

Parker

1985

as David Parker

5.3
Acting

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

Give My Regards to Broad Street

1984

as Steve

4.7
Acting

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

Kim

1984

as Mahbub Ali

6.0
Acting

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

Far East

1982

as Morgan Keefe

6.0
Acting

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

Winter of Our Dreams

1981

as Rob

5.5
Acting

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

Blood Money

1980

as Brian Shields

4.0
Acting

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

Breaker Morant

1980

as Lt. Peter Handcock

7.1
Acting

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

Stir

1980

as China Jackson

6.6
Acting

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

Palm Beach

1980

as Paul Kite

1.0
Acting

The stories involving surfing and drugs are followed in Sydney over two days.

Cathy's Child

Cathy's Child

1979

as Paul Nicholson

5.0
Acting

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

The Odd Angry Shot

1979

as Rogers

6.1
Acting

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

Money Movers

1978

as Brian Jackson

6.2
Acting

A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.

Newsfront

Newsfront

1978

as Geoff

5.6
Acting

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

Weekend of Shadows

1978

as Bennett

Acting

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

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

1978

as Shearer

6.8
Acting

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

Third Person Plural

1978

as Mark

Acting

Four young people get to know each other by spending weekends on a yacht stationed in Sydney's Pittwater area.

The Irishman

The Irishman

1978

as Eric Haywood

Acting

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

The Love Letters from Teralba Road

1977

as Len

6.0
Acting

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

Scobie Malone

1975

as Policeman (as Brian Bronn)

4.8
Acting

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

The Christmas Tree

1975

as axeman

Acting

Three lucky pine trees, with human faces, are cut down in order to enjoy the holidays with human families.