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.
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- Heartbeat (1992) as Sergeant Flaherty
- All Saints (1998) as Steve Coulter
- White Collar Blue (2002) as Tony Heron
- Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012) as Bart Tarrant
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) as Coriakin
- Killer Elite (2011) as Colonel Fitz
- Big Sky (1997) as Lightfoot
- Fierce Creatures (1997) as Neville Coltrane
- A Difficult Woman (1998) as Howard
- The Dish (2000) as Prime Minister
- Bad Cop, Bad Cop (2002) as Det Norman 'Blue' Wales
- Oscar and Lucinda (1997) as Percy Smith
- Dying Breed (2008) as Harvey / Rowan
- Dirty Deeds (2002) as Senator
- The Eye of the Storm (2011) as Dudley
- Unfinished Sky (2007) as Bob Potter
- The Man Who Sued God (2001) as Gerry Ryan
- Black and White (2002) as Thomas Playford
- Passion (1999) as John Grainger
- At World's End (2009) as James Hall
- Serenades (2001) as Pastor Hoffman
- BlackJack: In the Money (2005) as Tez Miller
- Curtin (2007) as Robert Menzies
- 3 Acts of Murder (2009) as George Ritchie