Bille Brown
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
The Lovers
2015
as Egerton
Killer Elite
2011
as Colonel Fitz
The Eye of the Storm
2011
as Dudley
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010
as Coriakin
At World's End
2009
as James Hall
3 Acts of Murder
2009
as George Ritchie
Dying Breed
2008
as Harvey / Rowan
Unfinished Sky
2007
as Bob Potter
Curtin
2007
as Robert Menzies
BlackJack: In the Money
2005
as Tez Miller
Silent Storm
2004
as Hedley Marston
Black and White
2002
as Thomas Playford
Dirty Deeds
2002
as Senator
The Man Who Sued God
2001
as Gerry Ryan
Serenades
2001
as Pastor Hoffman
The Dish
2000
as Prime Minister
Passion
1999
as John Grainger
Oscar and Lucinda
1997
as Percy Smith
Fierce Creatures
1997
as Neville Coltrane