Australian actor and producer

Bryan Brown

Bryan Neathway Brown AM is an Australian actor. He has performed in over eighty film and television projects since the late 1970s, both in his native Australia and abroad. Notable films include Breaker Morant (1980), Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), F/X (1986), Tai-Pan (1986), Cocktail (1988), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), F/X2 (1991), Along Came Polly (2004), Australia (2008), Kill Me Three Times (2014) and Gods of Egypt (2016). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his performance in the television miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).

Born

1947

June 23

Died

Living

Era

1940s

Country

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Key dates

1947 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

229 Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
1266 War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
1280 The Spanish Reconquista: In the Battle of Moclín the Emirate of Granada ambush a superior pursuing force, killing most of them in a military disaster for the Kingdom of Castile.
1305 A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.

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The world in 1947

When Bryan arrived

april 1 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
april 15 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
april 16 An explosion on board a freighter in port causes Texas City in the state of Texas, United States, to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.
april 16 Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Alfred Kinsey 1894–1956 American biologist and academic (born 1894) Cyclone Taylor 1884–1979 Canadian ice hockey player and politician (died 1979) Frederic Leclercq 1978– French heavy metal musician Giambattista Vico 1668–1744 Italian historian and philosopher (born 1668) Hal Laycoe 1922– Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1998) Jean Anouilh 1910–1987 French playwright and screenwriter (died 1987) LaDainian Tomlinson 1979– American football player Lisa Carrington 1989– New Zealand flatwater canoeist Stuart Sutcliffe 1940–1962 Scottish artist and musician (born 1940)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947– Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California Alain Bashung 1947– French singer-songwriter and actor (died 2009) Albert Brooks 1947– American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter Andrea Martin 1947– American-Canadian actress, singer, and screenwriter Ángel Nieto 1947– Spanish motorcycle racer (died 2017) Angry Anderson 1947– Australian singer and actor Anton Mosimann 1947– Swiss chef and author Assata Shakur 1947– American-Cuban criminal and activist (died 2025) Barry Melton 1947– American singer-songwriter and guitarist

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