Bryan Brown Filmography

The Archive Project

Actors: Keith Gow, Sue Mathews, Rita Parkinson, Bob Mathews, Ken Coldicutt

Synopsis: In the late 1940's, as Australian politics became increasingly polarized in the wake of the growing Cold War, a group of leftist film enthusiasts who were increasingly troubled by the hesitance of most exhibitors to screen Russian or European films with radical themes founded a film society called Read More

Spring Break Shark Attack

Actors: Kathy Baker, Bryan Brown, Shannon Lucio, Riley Smith, Justin Baldoni

Synopsis: A school of ravenous tiger sharks turn a spring break celebration into a frenzied bloodbath, and the only way to survive is to stay away from the beach in a sun-soaked tale of iron-jawed terror starring Shannon Lucio, Kathy Baker, Riley Smith, and Bryan Brown. The hard-partying college coeds Read More

The Poseidon Adventure

Synopsis: A luxury liner has capsized in the middle of the ocean, and it's up to the few remaining survivors to navigate through the treacherous, upside-down maze of terror and make their way to safety in the made-for-television remake of the 1972 disaster film. A terrorist has boarded the luxury liner Read More

Along Came Polly

Actors: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Screenwriter John Hamburg directs his second film (since his 1998 debut Safe Men) with the romantic comedy Along Came Polly. Ben Stiller plays Reuben Feffer, a professional risk assessor who never takes chances in any aspect of his life. When his new bride Lisa (Debra Messing) leaves him for a Read More

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

Synopsis: After 25 years of marriage, our heroine Rose (Christine Lathi), the book editor for the "LA Chronicle", is in for a shock. Her husband Nathan (Brian Kerwin), who is also her boss at the "Chronicle", has fallen in love with his much-younger assistant Mindy (Abby Brammell). Humiliating as it is when Read More

Footsteps

Actors: Candice Bergen, Bryan Brown, Michael Murphy, Bug Hall

Synopsis: Adapted from an unproduced play by Ira Levin (Rosemary's Baby, et al.), the made-for-TV Footsteps stars Candice Bergen as Daisy Lowenthal, a best-selling suspense novelist who has recently "killed off" her most popular fictional character -- and who is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Read More

Martha's New Coat

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Matilda Brown, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Lisa Hensley, Daniel Wyllie, Amy Miller-Porter

Synopsis: Directed by Rachel Ward, this short feature centers around 15-year-old Martha (Matilda Brown), whose frustration with the trappings of small-town life reaches a breaking point after her would-be birthday excursion to the beach is canceled. Determined to distance herself from her mother's (Lisa Hensley Read More

Dirty Deeds

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, John Goodman, Sam Neill, Sam Worthington

Synopsis: Directed by David Caesar, Dirty Deeds is an Australian crime picture inspired by real-life Sydney mobsters, and is set in the Sydney crime underworld of 1969. Bryan Brown stars as Barry Ryan, a prominent gangster whose ruthlessness rivals some of the toughest in the trade. He lives with his Read More

Styx

Actors: Peter Weller, Bryan Brown, Angus MacFadyen

Synopsis: The stars of Robocop and F/X come together for this 2001 heist thriller from director Alex Wright (The First 9 1/2 Weeks). After establishing himself as one of the world's best safecrackers, Nelson (Peter Weller) decides to retire from his life of crime and walk the straight and narrow. However Read More

Risk

Actors: Bryan Brown, Tom Long, Claudia Karvan, Jason Clarke

Synopsis: Three people discover jealousy and larceny are a dangerous combination in this tense drama. John (Bryan Brown) is a veteran insurance investigator who succumbs to temptation and veers towards the wrong side of the law. With the help of novice con man Ben (Tom Long), John hatches a scheme to Read More

On the Beach

Actors: Armand Assante, Bryan Brown, Rachel Ward

Grizzly Falls

Actors: Daniel Clark, Bryan Brown, Tom Jackson, Oliver Tobias, Richard Harris

Synopsis: In this family-oriented outdoor adventure story, Bryan Brown plays Tyrone, a hunter who captures a handful of grizzly bear cubs. However, Tyrone didn't count on the tenacity of the cubs' mother, who retaliates by kidnapping Tyrone's son. When Tyrone sets out to find his son, fearing the worst, the Read More

Two Hands

Actors: Heath Ledger, Rose Byrne, Bryan Brown, David Field, Tom Long

Synopsis: Action and comedy are served in equal portions in this Australian crime thriller. Jimmy (Heath Ledger) is a 19-year-old living in Sydney who is somehow asked to run an errand for local underworld kingpin Pando (Bryan Brown). Before Jimmy knows what's happened, he owes Pando $10,000, and finds the Read More

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Actors: Treat Williams, Tushka Bergen, Jeremy London, Bryan Brown, Hugh Keays-Byrne

Synopsis: Like the 1959 theatrical feature of the same name, the two-part cable movie Journey to the Center of the Earth was loosely adapted from the Jules Verne novel (also of the same name). The first part of the TV version faithfully follows the chronology of the earlier film, with famed Read More

On the Border

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Bryan Brown, Casper Van Dien

Synopsis: A corrupt security guard finds his already shaky loyalties stretched to the breaking point in this action drama. Jake Barnes (Casper Van Dien) is hired to guard a bank in a small town near the Texas/Mexico border. Jake's boss wants him to keep an eye on his wife, whom he believes is being Read More

Dear Claudia

Actors: Bryan Brown, Aleksandra Vujcic, Rel Hunt, Deborah Mailman, Kim Hillas

Synopsis: Beautiful location filming highlights this romantic comedy/adventure from Australia. Walter (Bryan Brown) is a shy mailman who delivers a route in the small town of Talok Spring near Australia's Whitsunday Islands. Walter has long had a crush on Claudia (Aleksandra Vujcic), who works at a barmaid Read More

Still Twisted

Actors: Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Bryan Brown stars in these four tales from his Australian television series of the unexpected, "Twisted." A former dancing champion is hiding a secret from his past, a woman in a railway station has a bizarre confrontation with a counter clerk, a hitman finds a "routine" assignment is anything Read More

Dogboys

Actors: Dean Cain, Bryan Brown, Tia Carrere, Sean McCann, Ken James

Synopsis: Ken Russell's Dogboys is set at a southern prison. The title of the film comes from the prisoners who are used to train the attack dogs employed to stop escapes. DA Jennifer Dern (Tia Carrere) is investigating the prison's warden (Bryan Brown). She puts one of her men inside the prison, but he Read More

Twisted Tales [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Actors: Michael Caine, Patrick Dempsey, Mia Sara, Bryan Brown, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Synopsis: The second of two network-TV adaptations of Jules Verne's speculative 1868 novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, this two-part ABC version originally aired on May 11 and 12, 1997, some two months after CBS's shorter -- and infinitely more faithful -- version. The year is 1886, and an unknown Read More

Dead Heart

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bryan Brown, Ernie Dingo, Angie Milliken

Synopsis: Though not quite a western, this gripping Australian drama contains similar themes as it chronicles the unending struggle between native aborigines and ever-encroaching Europeans. Set in the arid red-rock desert west of Alice Springs, a region called Dead Heart by the whites and hailed as a sacred Read More

Twisted Tales: The Confident Man

Full Body Massage

Actors: Mimi Rogers, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: In this erotic drama, Nina (Mimi Rogers) is a successful gallery owner who lives alone in a luxurious house filled with exquisite works of art. Her career is demanding, and once a week she gets a massage at home to ease her tenseness. One week she is surprised when Fitch (Bryan Brown) arrives to Read More

The Last Hit

Actors: Brooke Adams, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Bryan Brown stars as CIA hit man Michael Grant, who plans to retire after one more assignment. He buys a house in New Mexico from a widow (Brooke Adams), and they fall in love; only later does Michael realize his final target is the woman's father. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Age of Treason

Actors: Bryan Brown, Matthias Hues, Amanda Pays, Art Malik, Patricia Kerrigan

Synopsis: In this mystery, an ancient Roman detective looks into the disappearance of a powerful senator's son. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Blame It on the Bellboy

Actors: Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Richard Griffiths, Andreas Katsulas, Patsy Kensit

Synopsis: Brevity may be the soul of wit, but that doesn't make the 79-minute Blame It on the Bellboy any funnier. Orton (Dudley Moore) is an ambitious real estate agent. Horton (Richard Griffiths) is a middle-aged married man looking for extracurricular activity via a dating service. And Lawton (Bryan Brown Read More

Devlin

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable-TV crime drama, New York detective Devlin must prove that he is innocent of killing his brother-in-law, a mayoral candidate. It is not easy for the unhappily married, alcoholic gumshoe because he suspects that the man trying to frame him is his arch nemesis, his corrupt Read More

Prisoners of the Sun

Actors: Bryan Brown, George Takei, Terry O'Quinn, Toshi Shioya, John Bach

Synopsis: In 1945, a tribunal was held to investigate atrocities committed by the Japanese upon Australian soldiers during World War II. At an internment camp, 1100 Australian soldiers were tortured and killed by the Japanese, with only 300 survivors. This horrible event was not known until a terrible Read More

F/X 2

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Rachel Ticotin, Joanna Gleason, Philip Bosco

Synopsis: In F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion, Bryan Brown returns as movie special effects designer Rollie Tyler. Having barely escaped with his life after being duped and exploited by the villains in the first F/X, he isn't too eager to channel his talents into police work again. He'd much rather design Read More

Sweet Talker

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bryan Brown, Karen Allen, Justin Rosniak, Chris Haywood, Bill Kerr

Synopsis: In Sweet Talker, an amiable, charming ex-convict (Bryan Brown) arrives in a small Australian costal city with the intent of duping the populace into investing money in a phony excavation of a sunken ship, which is allegedly filled with gold. Unexpectedly, he falls in love with a young widow (Karen Allen Read More

Dead in the Water

Actors: Bryan Brown, Teri Hatcher, Veronica Cartwright

Synopsis: Made for cable TV, this thriller finds a lawyer (Bryan Brown) plotting the murder of his wealthy wife so he can make off with his secretary. The wrong person ends up dead, however, and he finds himself accused of the crime. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Brumby: Horse Run Wild - Horses Down Under

Synopsis: Aussies call the wild horse a "brumby." Bryan Brown narrates a look at these animals that may be born free, but are today considered a pest on the Australian Outback. These beautiful creatures represent an important connection to Australia's past and at the same time reflect a robust and spirited Read More

Gorillas in the Mist

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi, Iain Cuthbertson

Synopsis: Gorillas in the Mist is based on the autobiographical 1983 book by naturalist Dian Fossey. Before the book could be brought before the cameras, Fossey had been mysteriously killed; her death provides a logical, if somewhat ghoulish climax to the film. A Kentucky girl, Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) is Read More

Cocktail

Actors: Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Banes, Laurence Luckinbill

Synopsis: Tom Cruise juggles Martini shakers and ice cubes as the materialistic Brian Flanagan, a bartender who drops out of school to search for the perfect "rich chick" who will bankroll him into luxury. Brian meets up with bar veteran Doug Couglin (Bryan Brown) and they put together a dance-duo Read More

MacAuley's Daughter

The Shiralee

Synopsis: The 1988 Australian miniseries Shiralee was, like the 1957 film of the same name, based on a bestselling novel by D'Arcy Niland. A shiralee is Australian slang for the bundle carried about by a swagman (a tramp or thief). In this instance, the "bundle" is the 10-year-old daughter of an Australian Read More

The Good Wife

Actors: Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Steven Vidler, Jennifer Claire

Synopsis: Originally titled The Umbrella Woman, The Good Wife is set in an Australian lumber town in 1939. Marge Hills (Rachel Ward), the bored wife of kindly-but-dull Sonny Hills (Bryan Brown) begins dreaming of outside romances. She unexpectedly gets her wish in the form of Sonny's much-younger brother Read More

Tai-Pan

Actors: Bryan Brown, Joan Chen, John Stanton, Tim Guinee, Bill Leadbitter

Synopsis: Daryl Duke directed this epic adventure, based on James Clavell's best-selling novel, concerning the battle for control of the China trade in early 19th-century Hong Kong. The film takes place in 1842 on the China Coast, where the Chinese object to the British imperialist policy of buying opium Read More

Rebel

Actors: Matt Dillon, Debbie Byrne, Bryan Brown, Bill Hunter, Ray Barrett

Synopsis: This WW II musical is set in Australia and chronicles the exploits of a nightclub singer and the young Marine who loves her. She works in a Quonset hut turned into a saloon and helps stage shows for battle-weary troops returning from the South Seas. After one performance she holds a small party in Read More

F/X

Actors: Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff De Young, Mason Adams

Synopsis: A man who simulates death for a living finds himself unwittingly tied into the real thing in this suspense drama. Special effects man Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) makes his living simulating gory mayhem and photogenic violence for movies such as "I Dismember Mama." Tyler is given a chance to expand Read More

The Empty Beach

Actors: Bryan Brown, Anna Maria Monticelli, Ray Barrett, John Wood, Nick Tate

Synopsis: Empty Beach brings Australian novelist Peter Corris' detective hero Cliff Hardy to the big screen. F/X star Bryan Brown plays Hardy, who this time around is hired to confirm or disprove the reported death of a millionaire. Hardy confers with journalist Brian Henneberry (Clifford Tate), who has Read More

Give My Regards to Broad Street

Actors: Paul McCartney, Bryan Brown, Ringo Starr, Barbara Bach, Linda McCartney

Synopsis: Having written the music and screenplay for this film, Paul McCartney also plays himself in the leading role. When the sole copy of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording company to the lowlife Mr. Rath (John Bennett Read More

Kim

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Unlike the more succinct 1950 MGM version, the 1984 TV movie adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Kim (filmed on location in India) takes its own sweet time establishing characters and exposition. You'll have to stay with the film for its first half hour to determine who is who and what is what, but Read More

Parker

Actors: Bryan Brown, Cherie Lunghi, Kurt Raab, Bob Peck

Synopsis: In this suspenseful thriller, David Parker (Bryan Brown) is a married businessman with three children, a mistress in Germany, and a brother dealing drugs -- a combination of relationships that will eventually prove fatal to several people. After David leaves his London home and family behind for a Read More

Eureka Stockade

The Thorn Birds, Part 4

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds was set in Australia and covered the life of Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain), a Roman Catholic priest engaged in a constant struggle between his calling and his carnal desires. The miniseries Read More

The Thorn Birds, Part 1

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds was set in Australia and covered the life of Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain), a Roman Catholic priest engaged in a constant struggle between his calling and his carnal desires. In the three-hour Read More

The Thorn Birds, Part 3

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds was set in Australia and covered the life of Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain), a Roman Catholic priest engaged in a constant struggle between his calling and his carnal desires. Part three, which Read More

The Thorn Birds, Part 2

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds was set in Australia and covered the life of Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain), a Roman Catholic priest engaged in a constant struggle between his calling and his carnal desires. In part two, which Read More

The Thorn Birds

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: This mammoth TV miniseries, based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, proved to be a ratings bonanza; indeed, its viewership was surpassed only by the 1978 blockbuster Roots. Set in Australia, the story covers 42 years in the life of Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain), a Roman Read More

Far East

Actors: Bryan Brown, Helen Morse, John Bell, Henry Duval

Synopsis: When a political reporter disappears in Southeast Asia, it is up to his wife to find him. She enlists the help of a former boyfriend, who is still coping with his unresolved feelings for her. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Winter of Our Dreams

Actors: Judy Davis, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: In this Australian film, the married, financially secure Rob (Bryan Brown) meets up with drug-addicted prostitute Lou (Judy Davis) and tries to help her crawl out of the dead-end life she's created for herself. However, when Rob's wife discovers who he's been spending his time with, his marriage Read More

Stir

Actors: Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller, Michael Gow, Phil Motherwell

Synopsis: Yes, Stir is a prison picture, but don't be put off by the seeming flippancy of its slangy title. Ben Jewson based his screenplay on his own experiences while incarcerated. Jewson spares us nothing: the gleeful brutality of the guards, the sexual outrages in the cells, the grim future in store for Read More

A Town Like Alice

Synopsis: A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute's novel of the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II, was first filmed as a theatrical feature in 1956. The six-part British TV adaptation of 1980, first shown in the US on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre beginning October 4, 1981, is more inclusive and sweeping Read More

Blood Money

Synopsis: In this drama, a terminally ill ex-crook returns to his home in Melbourne, Australia to make amends and die with peace and dignity. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Breaker Morant

Actors: Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Jack Thompson, John Waters

Synopsis: Breaker Morant is one of the most acclaimed Australian films, telling a powerful tale of wartime betrayal and injustice. Henry "Breaker" Morant (Edward Woodward) is an Englishman living in Australia at the end of the 19th century. When war breaks out in 1899 between Britain and the Boers Read More

Palm Beach

Actors: Nat Young, Kenneth Brown, Amanda Berry, Bryan Brown, Julie McGregor

Synopsis: In this thriller, set in Sydney Australia's Palm Beach (which is to Sydney what Malibu is to Los Angeles), the lives of four hard-pressed individuals briefly become interwoven. Paul Kite (Bryan Brown) has been out of work for some time. While at a sociable party, he quietly pockets a handgun he Read More

Cathy's Child

Actors: Michelle Fawdon, Alan Cassell, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this drama stars Michelle Fawdon as Cathy Baikas, a woman of Greek heritage who lives in Sydney, Australia with her three-year-old daughter. When the girl's father kidnaps the child and takes her back to Greece with him, Cathy discovers the authorities can do little to help Read More

The Odd Angry Shot

Actors: Graham Kennedy, John Hargreaves, John Jarratt, Bryan Brown, Graeme Blundell

Synopsis: In The Odd Angry Shot director Tom Jeffrey provides a cathartic Australian answer to Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter. Australia's participation in the Vietnam War was as much of an alienating and soul-searching experience for Australians as for Americans, and Jeffrey's frank portrayal of a group Read More

Money Movers

Actors: Terence Donovan, Ed Devereaux, Tony Bonner, Lucky Grills, Alan Cassell

Synopsis: In order to raise the money for his "breakthrough" film Breaker Morant, Australian director Bruce Beresford dashed off the guaranteed audience pleaser Money Movers. Terence Donovan masterminds a bank-vault heist that will potentially net his gang 20 million Australian dollars. The scheme Read More

Third Person Plural

Actors: George Shevtsov, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: As they gather over a series of weekends on a sailing boat owned by Terry (George Shevtsov), a group of four people learn about themselves and their motivations, eventually coming to some realizations -- while carrying on the small business of tying down lines and discussing who brought which item Read More

The Irishman

Actors: Michael Craig, Simon Burke, Robyn Nevin, Lou Brown, Vincent Ball, Tui Bow

Synopsis: In Queensland, Australia in the 1920s, a rugged Irishman bucks the encroaching modern age to the detriment of himself and his family in The Irishman. Michael Craig plays Paddy Doolan, an individualistic force-of-nature who runs a team of imposing and impressive Clydesdale draught horses. With the Read More

Newsfront

Actors: Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Gerard Kennedy, Chris Haywood, John Ewart, Angela Punch, Don Crosby, Bryan Brown, John Clayton, Lorna Lesley,