Bille Brown

Bille Brown

Nascimento : 1952-01-11, Biloela, Queensland, Australia

Morte : 2013-01-13

História

Bille Brown (11 January 1952 - 13 January 2013) was an Australian Shakespearean actor and acclaimed writer of plays. After Bille graduated his drama at the University of Queensland, he began with the Queensland Theatre Company and, later, was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Strathford and London. While with the RSC, he was one of its few commissioned writers. Bille Brown AM has been recognised twice in the Australian Honours System. On 1 January 2001 he was granted the Centenary Medal "for distinguished service to the arts" and on 26 January 2011, Bille was named as a Member of the Order of Australia "for service to the performing arts as an actor and playwright, and to education". The latter honour is denoted by the post-nominal "AM" after his name.

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Bille Brown
Bille Brown

Filmes

Celeste
Writer
Celeste is a renowned opera diva who retired early for the man she loved to live on a crumbling and beautiful estate in the heart of a rainforest in Far North Queensland. Ten years after the tragic death of her husband, Mateos, in a boating accident, Celeste is set to return to the stage for her final performance. Her husband’s son Jack, still haunted by the past, arrives amidst the preparations for the performance and finds Celeste is as he remembered – beautiful, intoxicating and dangerous. Celeste wants Jack to stay at the estate, but needs him to perform one last request.
Os Especialistas
Colonel Fitz
O agente especial Danny (Jason Statham), embora quisesse desistir de seu profissionalismo na arte de matar, foi forçado a fazer um último serviço para garantir a sobrevivência de seu antigo parceiro de missões secretas Hunter (Robet De Niro). Para isso, ele deverá vingar um poderoso xeque do petróleo que teve seu três filhos assassinados por três agentes das forças especiais britânicas SAS. Contudo, Spike (Clive Owen), um poderoso ex-membro do grupo, está disposto a defender seus antigos parceiros e não medirá esforços para eliminar seu novo oponente.
O Coração da Tempestade
Dudley
Elizabeth Hunter é uma mulher que sempre controlou a sua vida e que está determinada a continuar a controlar os destinos da sua família e dos seus filhos, mesmo encontrando-se às portas da morte...
As Crônicas de Nárnia: A Viagem do Peregrino da Alvorada
Coriakin
Lúcia, Edmundo e Eustáquio retornam para Nárnia, onde encontram com príncipe Caspian, agora rei, e outros amigos. Buscando os Sete Fidalgos Desaparecidos de Telmar, eles começam uma nova aventura a bordo do navio Peregrino da Alvorada e irão encarar guerreiros, dragões, anões e tritões.
At World's End
James Hall
An english tv-team discovers a special white flower in the indonesian rainforest, but they never get to investegate it further, before the danish recluse Severin has shot them down. A danish special enforcement with a psychiatrist in front is sent off, and they find out, that Severin claims, that he is 129 years old, and it's the flower, which keeps him young. Soon all hunts the white flower, which apparently gives eternal life.
3 Acts of Murder
George Ritchie
In 1928 Arthur Upfield, Australia’s premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. Meanwhile, one of his friends, stockman Snowy Rowles, put the scheme into deadly effect, even before the book was published. This true story resulted in one of Australia’s most sensational murder trials of the 1930’s and catapulted Upfield’s name onto the world stage.
Raça Selvagem
Harvey / Rowan
Nina e seus amigos partem para uma expedição pelos lugares mais remotos da Austrália, com o objetivo de provar a existência do Tigre da Tasmânia. Especialistas já deram essa espécie como extinta, mas a irmã de Nina descobre evidencias de que eles ainda existem. O que nenhum deles sabia é que, décadas atrás, o mais brutal assassino e canibal Alexander Pearce escapou da prisão e se escondeu nesta mesma região. Agora essa expedição descobrirá que enquanto uma espécie pode realmente ter desaparecido da face da terra, uma nova raça selvagem, pode ter surgido.
Unfinished Sky
Bob Potter
An Outback farmer takes in an Afghani woman who has fled from a brothel.
Curtin
Robert Menzies
1941. A country in crisis. A new man in power. Leadership demands and personal demons are set to collide. The story of John Curtin as he faces his first six months as Prime Minister, confronting in quick succession, the tragedy of Pearl Harbour, the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and a furious battle with Churchill over the deployment of Australian troops. This is a raw and intimate story of a driven and inspirational leader - a man who struggles to battle his own personal demons while serving and protecting a country at war.
BlackJack: In the Money
Tez Miller
Jack discovers that a man jailed for matricide could be innocent and the killer could still be close to home. Did Jack's own father-in-law have some part to play in the mystery?
Silent Storm
Hedley Marston
From 1957 to 1978, scientists secretly removed bone samples from over 21,000 dead Australians as they searched for evidence of the deadly poison, Strontium 90 - a by-product of nuclear testing. Silent Storm reveals the story behind this astonishing case of officially sanctioned "body-snatching". Set against a backdrop of the Cold War, the saga follows celebrated scientist, Hedley Marston, as he attempts to blow the whistle on radioactive contamination and challenge official claims that British atomic tests posed no threat to the Australian people. Marston's findings are not only disputed, he is targeted as "a scientist of counter-espionage interest". Now, questions are being raised about the health repercussions for generations of Australians.
Black and White
Thomas Playford
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.
The Man Who Sued God
Gerry Ryan
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.
Serenades
Pastor Hoffman
Set in the 1890s in the central desert region of Australia, 'Serenades' tells the tale of Jila who is conceived when her Afghan cameleer father wins her Aboriginal mother in a card game.
O Prato
Prime Minister
Em 1969 a NASA precisava de uma poderosa antena parabólica que estivesse, literalmente, do outro lado do mundo para manter contato ininterrupto com a nave Apolo. Acabaram fazendo um acordo com a equipe que cuidava da grande antena do Observatório de Parkes, Austrália. A parabólica, carinhosamente apelidada de "O Prato", fica no meio de um pasto de ovelhas e foi responsável pela captação e retransmissão das imagens da primeira caminhada do homem na lua. Baseado em uma história real, O Prato tem um olhar inteligente, espirituoso e cômico das atitudes culturais diferentes entre a Austrália e os EUA, enquanto revisita um dos maiores eventos na história. Relembra do orgulho da cidade, o fornecimento de energia elétrica instável, o funcionário da NASA exasperado, e até mesmo um romance, coisas que desempenharam um papel com muitas tensões no evento, com o mundo dependendo deles para as imagens da primeira caminhada da lua.
Passion
John Grainger
Passion concentrates on Grainger's unusual relationship with his mother and his sexual peculiarities (especially his obsessive self-flagellation, though homosexuality is also hinted at) which affect his relationship with a woman who comes to love him. It is set mainly in London in 1914, when Grainger's mother Rose was ill (she would later jump to her death in New York, upset by ill-founded rumours of incest with her son).
Oscar e Lucinda
Percy Smith
Depois de uma infância de abuso por parte de seu pai evangelista, o desajustado Oscar Hopkins se torna um ministro anglicano e desenvolve uma obsessão divina por jogos de azar. Lucinda Leplastrier é uma rica herdeira australiana que compra em Londres materiais para sua fábrica de vidro recém-adquirida em seu país. Decidido a viajar para a Austrália como um missionário, Oscar conhece Lucinda a bordo do navio e uma obsessão mútua floresce. Eles fazem uma aposta que vai alterar cada um de seus destinos.
Ferocidade Máxima
Neville Coltrane
Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most impressive and dangerous animals are allowed to remain in the zoo. However, the keepers are less enthusiastic about complying with these demands.