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Bruce Spence is a Actor Néo-Zélandais born on 17 september 1945 at Auckland (Nouvelle zelande)
Bruce Spence (born 17 September 1945) is a New Zealand actor, having spent most of his career performing in Australia.
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Bruce Spence
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Il est surtout connu pour son rôle du capitaine de l'autogire dans Mad Max 2. Il revient pourtant sous les traits d'un autre personnage, le pilote Jedediah, dans Mad Max : Au-delà du dôme du tonnerre. Ces dernières années, on a pu le remarquer également dans Matrix Revolutions, Le Retour du Roi ou encore dans La Revanche des Sith.Best films
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Barnaby and Me (1977)
, 1h30Directed by Malcolm Goodwin, Norman Panama
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Sid Caesar, Katrina Bowden, Jon Gries, Juliet Mills, Malcolm Goodwin, Hugh Keays-Byrne
Roles Tall Baddie
Rating54%
, 2h10Directed by Tim Burstall
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Susannah York, Trevor Howard, John Castle, John Waters, Abigail, Gerard Kennedy
Roles Bruce McIver
Rating58%
In 1836, Captain James Fraser, and his young wife, Eliza Fraser, sail from Sydney on the Stirling Castle. Captain Rory McBryde, the most notorious rake in New South Wales, manages to get on board and tries to seduce Eliza. Captain Fraser stops off at the penal colony of Moreton Bay which is run by Captain Fyans, who tries to seduce convict Bracefell. Bracefell escapes and hides in Eliza's room; Eliza sleeps with him, thinking he is McBryde, but is not unhappy when she sees who it is. She helps Bracefell escape.
Mad Dog Morgan (1976)
, 1h30Directed by Philippe Mora
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, Frank Thring, Michael Pate, Bill Hunter
Roles Heriot
Rating60%
Dan Morgan witnesses the bloody massacre of Chinese on the goldfields and turns into a robber. He is arrested and sent to prison for six years where he is tormented and raped. He is let out on parole and becomes a bushranger, befriending an aboriginal, Billy. Morgan fights against the vicious Superintendent Cobham and is eventually killed.
Twentieth Century Oz (1976)
, 1h43Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Joy Dunstan, Bruce Spence, Michael Carman
Roles Bass Player / Surfie
Rating57%
Dorothy (Joy Dunstan) is a sixteen-year-old groupie riding with a rock band, Wally (Graham Matters) and the Falcons. Suddenly, the van is in a road accident, and she hits her head. She wakes up in a fantasy world as gritty and realistic as the one she came from and learns she killed a young thug in the process. A gay clothier, Glin the Good Fairy (Robin Ramsay), gives her a pair of red shoes as a reward to help her see the last concert of the Wizard (Matters), an androgynous glam rock singer. She is pursued by the thug's brother (Ned Kelly) who attempts to rape her on several occasions. She also meets a dumb surfer Blondie (Bruce Spence), a heartless mechanic Greaseball (Michael Carman), and a cowardly biker Killer (Garry Waddell).
Let the Balloon Go (1976)
, 1h32Actors John Ewart, Bruce Spence, Ray Barrett
Roles Chief Gifford
Rating69%
In 1917 rural New South Wales, a young boy with polio struggles to break free of his overprotective mother.
The Firm Man (1975)
, 1h40Directed by John Duigan
Genres Drama
Actors Bethany Lee, Bruce Spence, John Duigan
Roles Messenger
Rating57%
Gerald Baxter, a middle aged businessman, starts a new job at a company called the Firm where his only jobs are collecting occasional messages. Gerald becomes bored and alienated from his life and wife. He befriends a girl who offers him another life but in the end conforms.
The Great MacArthy (1975)
, 1h30Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors John Jarratt, Judy Morris, Kate Fitzpatrick, Barry Humphries, Chris Haywood, Bruce Spence
Roles Bill Dean
Rating53%
MacArthy is a county football player who is kidnapped by the South Melbourne Football Club and made a star player in the city. The Club Chairman, Colonel Ball-Miller, give MacArthy a job in one of his companies and makes him attend night school. He is seduced by his English teacher, Miss Russell, and has an affair with Ball-Miller's daughter, Andrea.
The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
, 1h31Directed by Peter Weir
Origin Australie
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror comedy, Action, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Comedy horror films, Chase films
Actors John Meillon, Terry Camilleri, Chris Haywood, Bruce Spence, Danny Adcock, Edward "Teddy" Howell
Roles Charlie
Rating56%
The film begins with an urban couple driving through the countryside in what looks like a cinema advertisement. The scene comes to a halt with a fatal accident. The rural Australian town of Paris arranges fatal accidents to visitors driving through. Townspeople collect items from the luggage of the deceased passengers whilst survivors are taken to the local hospital where they are given lobotomies with power tools and kept as "veggies" for medical experiments by the earnest town surgeon. The young men of the town salvage and modify the wrecked vehicles into a variety of strange-looking cars designed for destruction.
Moving On (1974)
, 57minutesGenres Documentary
Actors Ewen Solon, Lyndel Rowe, Jonathan Hardy, Bruce Spence, Roger Ward
Roles road worker
Dimboola: The Stage Play (1973)
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Bruce Spence, Jack Charles, Charles Kemper
Roles The Groom
Stork (1971)
, 1h25Directed by Tim Burstall
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Bruce Spence, Jacki Weaver, Graeme Blundell, Helmut Bakaitis, Madeleine Orr, Dennis Miller
Roles Graham 'Stork' Wallace
Rating57%
Stork is a 6-foot 7 hypochondriac who dreams of revolution and works at General Motors Holden. He is sacked from his job after doing a strip tease at work and goes to live in a share house in Carlton with his friend Westy and two trendy young men, Tony and Clyde, who share the same girlfriend, Anna. Stork loses his virginity to Anna and falls in love with her.