Bruce Spence

Bruce Spence
Date of Birth: 17 Sep 1945
Country: New Zealand
Total Credits at Criticker: 33 (Actor)
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Dark City
Alex Proyas directs this futuristic thriller about a man (Sewell) waking up to find he is wanted for brutal murders he doesn't remember. Haunted by mysterious beings who stop time and alter reality, he seeks to unravel the riddle of his identity. [New Line]
Queen of the Damned
After many years of sleeping in his coffin, the vampire Lestat awakens only to find that the world has changed and he wants to be a part of it. He gathers a following and becomes a rock star only to find that his music awakens the ancient Queen Akasha and she wants him to become her king... (imdb)
Aquamarine
Following a violent storm, a beautiful and sassy mermaid named Aquamarine washes ashore and into the lives of two best friends about to be parted at summer's end. When Aquamarine falls for a local, hunky lifeguard, she enlists the girls' help to win his heart and in exchange offers to grant the girls one wish. (20th Century Fox)
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Pet detective Ace Ventura comes out of retirement to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat, the symbol of an African tribe (imdb)
The Road Warrior
In the post-apocolyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits (imdb)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children (imdb)
The Cars That Ate Paris
The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy. (imdb)
Where the Green Ants Dream
The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert... (imdb)
Hercules Returns
This is Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili (1964) with the old dialogue removed and new comic dialogue inserted, along with some new footage. (mayo)
Moby Dick
Moby Dick (1998) - TV Mini-Series
Herman Melville's classic 1851 sea tale about the vengeful sea Captain Ahab (Stewart) who seeks to kill the great white whale who took his leg and is willing to forego the safety and endurance of his crew to do it. The tale is told from the vantage of the only surviving member, Ishmael (Henry Thomas), a young man who joins the crew of the Pequod for his first seafaring with the aid of his harpoonist friend, Queequeeg (Piripi Waretin). (imdb)
Rikky and Pete
Follow the lives of Rikky, a talanted geologist, and her brother Pete, an off-the-wall mechanical genius. To find peace of mind they travel to the outbacks of Australia and meet up with a desert mining town full of zany individualists. (imdb)
Stork
A satirical comedy staring Bruce Spence as Stork, a communist, a dreamer and a virgin who spends his time worrying about catching every type of illness imaginable.
Eliza Fraser
An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia (imdb)
Midnight Spares
After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's untimely death, Steve pursues the criminals and attempts to capture them as well as prove his prowess as a racecar driver.
The Shrimp on the Barbie
Carlos failed in the show-biz and currently works as waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex and dumb footballer Bruce, who celebrate their engagement with her parents. Alex' father is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée. But her father sees through the game... (imdb)
The Year My Voice Broke
During the year 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Austrailia watches painfully as his best friend and first love, an older girl, blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, setting off a chain of events that irreversibly changes the lives of everyone involved. (imdb)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
With their dour, bookish cousin Eustace (Will Poulter) in tow, the youngest Pevensie offspring -- Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes) -- take an unexpected trip back to Narnia and join noble King Caspian (Ben Barnes) for an epic high-seas adventure. Setting sail aboard the Dawn Treader, the young heroes head for the end of the world, determined to rescue seven once-powerful lords banished by Caspian's evil uncle.
The Munsters\
The movie begins with a group of carolers going to carol at the Munster home. Herman answers the door and starts to dance and sing with them, but he scares them away. Eddie, is very homesick and dislikes the fact of not being able to spend Christmas in Transylvania. So Herman comes up with the idea to help make Eddie's Christmas unforgettable. Herman asks for a raise and is denied. Herman takes on other jobs, such as modeling nude for an art seminar, donating blood, and wrapping presents. (wikipedia.org)
Oz: A Rock \
Dorothy is a sixteen-year-old groupie riding with a rock band when, suddenly, the van is in a road accident, and she hits her head. She wakes up in a fantasy world as gritty and realistic as the one she came from and learns she killed a young thug in the process. A gay clothier called the Good Fairy gives her a pair of red shoes as a reward to help her see the last concert of the Wizard, an androgynous rock singer. (imdb)
Mystery Road
Returning to his small outback hometown, an Aboriginal police detective undertakes an investigation into the brutal murder of a teenage Aboriginal girl that brings the town's long-simmering tensions to the surface. (tiff.net)
Backtrack
Psychologist Peter Bower's life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that the patients he has been seeing are ghosts. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret which only he can put right. (imdb)
Crooked Mick of the Speewah
Strong-Arm Sam and his promoter Gus are down on their luck. Tired of hearing about how much stronger Crooked Mick of the Speewah is, they decide to find the mythical Speewah and challenge legendary Crooked Mick. A film based on traditional Australian myths, told in a heightened way using the latest technology. (imdb)
Let the Balloon Go
While his brother is fighting in WWI, a small independent Australian boy who lives in the countryside with his overbearing mother and pet dog and who must wear a leg brace decides to overcome his handicap no matter what. (imdb)
Dimboola
A London newsman spends a wild weekend in Australia at a bride's tea party and a groom's stag party.
Winchester
Eccentric firearm heiress believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle. (imdb)
Buddies
Young miners Mike and Johnny work in the gem fields of central Queensland around Emerald. Conflict arises when their pick-and-shovel operation is threatened by a large scale bulldozer operator. (imdb)
The Great Macarthy
Macarthy is a country football player who is kidnapped by the South Melbourne Football Club and made a star player in the city. (imdb)
Legend of the Seeker
Richard Cypher is supposed to be the seeker, the one that according to the prophecy is the only capable of defeating Darken Rahl. The first season starts when he discovers this circumstance.
Love and Monsters
After a Monsterpocalypse forces humans into underground colonies, a young man decides to brave the surface and face the monsters standing between him and his lost love. (imdb)
The Dry
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Children of the Corn
Possessed by a spirit in a dying cornfield, a 12-year-old girl in Nebraska recruits other children in her small town to go on a bloody rampage and kill all the adults and anyone else who opposes her. Soon, a bright high school student who won’t go along with the plan becomes the town’s only hope for survival.
Cloudstreet
Cloudstreet (2011) - TV Mini-Series
Set in and around Perth during the 1940 sand 1950s, the story of two rural families who suffer separate catastrophes and flee to the city to pick up the pieces of their lives and start again. Brought together in the same house at No.1 Cloud Street, the Lambs and the Pickles share numerous tragedies and triumphs that draw them closer together, until the roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts. (imdb)