Bruce Spence
Biography
Bruce Spence is a New Zealand-born Australian actor who has worked extensively in film, television and theater, amassing more than 100 screen credits. Born in Auckland, he gained prominence playing the gyrocopter pilot in Mad Max 2 (1981), then portrayed the pilot Jedediah in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and took the lead in Werner Herzog's Where the Green Ants Dream (1984). Later he played Baxter in Inspector Gadget 2 (2003), voiced Chum in Finding Nemo (2003), appeared as the Trainman in The Matrix Revolutions (2003), and portrayed Tion Medon in Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) and Lord Rhoop in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010). On television he was Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander in Legend of the Seeker, which ran for two seasons, and appeared in Rake. He won an AFI Award for Best Actor for Stork (1971) and received the Equity Lifetime Achievement award in 2024.
81years old
Turns 82 on September 17in 340 days
- Born Auckland
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 23
- Career span
- 47 years1974 to 2021
First and latest
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Beyond film
In the Australian run of BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience, Bruce Spence took the part of Huxley, a palaeontologist, and provided narration for life-sized mechanical dinosaurs run by teams of puppeteers and drivers.
Bruce Spence movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior1981 Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thrilleras The Gyro Captain
IMDb rating 7.6215K votes
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome1985 Action, Adventure, Sci-Fias Jedediah the Pilot
IMDb rating 6.2164K votes
Most often with
George Miller directed two of these films. Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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George MillerDirector, 2 films, 1981 to 1985
All films by George Miller
Also two films together11 more actors
- Chris HaywoodNewsfront (1978) and The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
- Bill HunterFinding Nemo (2003) and Newsfront (1978)
- Tony BarryMystery Road (2013) and Newsfront (1978)
- Tyler CoppinWinchester (2018) and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
- Julia BlakeThe Dry (2021) and Aquamarine (2006)
- Max PhippsMad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
- Nicholas BellI, Frankenstein (2014) and Dark City (1998)
- Tim RobertsonThe Year My Voice Broke (1987) and The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
- William ZappaThe Dry (2021) and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
- Dan EwingLove and Monsters (2020) and Occupation (2018)
- Laura BrentWinchester (2018) and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Bruce Spence's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$2.7 billion
14 of the 23 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 23 films: 14 worldwide figure; 3 us gross only; 6 figure not found.
- 14Worldwide figure
- 3US gross only
- 6Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 97% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$940M34.7% of the total
- 2$850M31.3% of the total
- 3$416M15.3% of the total
- 4$212M7.8% of the total
- 5$77M2.8% of the total
- 6$45M1.7% of the total
- 7$44M1.6% of the total
- 8$36M1.3% of the total
$91.5 millionfrom the other 6 films with a worldwide figure, 3% of the total
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