Bille Brown
Actor
Biography
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.
Filmography
Killer Elite
as Colonel Fitz 2011
Fierce Creatures
as Neville Coltrane 1997
The Dish
as Prime Minister 2000
Dying Breed
as Harvey / Rowan 2008
Oscar and Lucinda
as Percy Smith 1997
The Man Who Sued God
as Gerry Ryan 2001
Dirty Deeds
as Senator 2002
The Eye of the Storm
as Dudley 2011
At World's End
as James Hall 2009
Unfinished Sky
as Bob Potter 2007
Black and White
as Thomas Playford 2002
3 Acts of Murder
as George Ritchie 2009
Passion
as John Grainger 1999
Serenades
as Pastor Hoffman 2001
BlackJack: In the Money
as Tez Miller 2005
Curtin
as Robert Menzies 2007