Vernon Wells
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vernon George Wells (born 31 December 1945) is an Australian film and television actor who has built his career around action-type films, most often cast as a villain. He began appearing on Australian television shows in the mid-1970s, such as Homicide and Matlock Police and All The Rivers Run. He is best known to international audiences for his role of "Wez", in the 1981 science fiction action film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. After Mad Max 2, Wells began appearing in Hollywood films, such as the military action film Commando (1985) (as Bennett), which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the science fiction comedy Innerspace (1987), which starred Martin Short, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. In the 2000s, Wells acted in the television series Power Rangers: Time Force portraying the series' main villain 'Ransik'. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vernon Wells(actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Dec 31, 1945 In Rushworth, Victoria, Australia
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 151
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Island in the Stars
- Latest Project:
- Movie Apex Predators 2: The Spawning 2024-11-12
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Beast Inside | Father Geoffrey | 2025 |
| Movie | Cursed Waters | Prosecutor | 2025 |
| Movie | Escape from Paradise | Gus | 2025 |
| Movie | Area 5150 | Rocco | 2025 |
| Movie | Censor Addiction | Wizard | 2025 |
| Movie | Mothman Vs Bigfoot | Detective Thomas | 2025 |
| Movie | Cheer Bloody Murder | Yanny | 2025 |
| Movie | Island in the Stars | Argentum | 2025 |
| Movie | Bring Me A Skin For Dancing In | Richard Daniels | 2024-07-06 |
| Movie | The Charisma Killers | The Old Man | 2024-11-01 |
| Movie | Road Wars: Max Fury | Shane McIntosh | 2024-05-17 |
| Movie | Apex Predators 2: The Spawning | Bartender Wells | 2024-11-12 |
| Movie | The Blue-Eyed Boy and Mister Death | George | 2024-02-16 |
| Movie | Realm of Shadows | Cypress | 2024-04-29 |
| Movie | Root | Scott | 2023-02-21 |
| Movie | The Price We Pay | The Doctor | 2023-01-13 |
| Movie | Heartland Harmony | Lemmy LaRoux | 2023-10-01 |
| Movie | Blood and Snow | The Professor | 2023-10-06 |
| Movie | Ghost | Jeremiah | 2023-07-09 |
| Movie | Transmission | Frank Tadross Roth | 2023-08-26 |
| Movie | Murder Syndicate | Roddy | 2023-06-13 |
| Movie | End of Loyalty | Rooker | 2023-03-07 |
| Movie | In Search of Tomorrow | Self - Interviewee | 2022-02-19 |
| Movie | The Electric Man | Doogie | 2022-02-11 |
| Movie | No Name and Dynamite | Black Jack Bennett | 2022-02-21 |
| Movie | Jack Be Nimble | Jack | 2022-01-15 |
| Movie | Memoirs of a Fighter | Pastor | 2022-07-14 |
| Movie | Shadows | Cliff | 2022-05-13 |
| Movie | American Bigfoot | Truman Shaw | 2022-10-01 |
| Movie | Forbearance | Dr. George Ross | 2022-08-30 |
| Movie | Soul Cage | The Persuader | 2022-07-30 |
| Movie | Of the Devil | Father Bennet | 2022-08-09 |
| Movie | Frost | Grant | 2022-10-11 |
| Movie | Werewolf Cabal | Henry Sullivan | 2022-12-04 |
| Movie | Tales from the Other Side | William | 2022-06-07 |
| Movie | Sally Floss: Digital Detective | Papa | 2022-06-28 |
| Movie | Thor: God of Thunder | Odin | 2022-07-08 |
| Movie | Amber Road | Sheriff Taylor | 2022-12-25 |
| Movie | Showdown in Yesteryear | Orson Kane | 2022-08-20 |
| Movie | Red Snow | Julius King | 2021-04-14 |
| Movie | Alien Danger 2! With Raven Van Slender | The Shadow Knight | 2021-10-11 |
| Movie | Christmas Collision | Ronan | 2021-10-07 |
| Movie | Kringle Time | Herb | 2021-07-27 |
| Movie | Bearry | Detective Seahorn | 2021-07-17 |
| Movie | No Chance | Barrett Transformed | 2020-02-18 |
| Movie | Camp Twilight | Detective Bennett | 2020-11-01 |
| Movie | Fear of the Woods | Father | 2020-10-07 |
| Movie | Social Distance | Gil Oldman Jr. | 2020-10-07 |
| Movie | Charlie's Christmas Wish | Hank Wentworth | 2020-11-02 |
| Movie | 7th Revelation | Gil Oldman Jr. | 2020-11-21 |
| Movie | Emerald Run | Dodson | 2020-02-21 |
| Movie | Await the Dawn | Zed | 2020-09-18 |
| Movie | Kill Giggles | Malcolm Fossor / Giggles | 2020-09-05 |
| Movie | Bird | Fred | 2020-12-19 |
| Movie | Debt Collectors | Cyrus Skinner | 2020-05-29 |
| Movie | In Search of the Last Action Heroes | Himself | 2019-09-01 |
| Movie | Crossbreed | Murphy | 2019-02-05 |
| Movie | The Silent Natural | Sarah's Father | 2019-06-02 |
| Movie | Death House | Nela | 2018-02-28 |
| Movie | Hide and Go Seek | Bill | 2018-10-21 |
| Movie | Glass Jaw | Happy | 2018-10-26 |
| Movie | Loss Prevention | CEO Reginald Bachman | 2018-11-06 |
| Movie | The City of Gold | The Inquisitor | 2018-12-04 |
| Movie | Lilith | Phillip | 2018-07-18 |
| Movie | Impact Event | Ed | 2018-04-07 |
| Movie | Trouble Is My Business | Detective Barry Tate | 2018-04-03 |
| Movie | Landfall | Wexler | 2017-11-26 |
| Movie | Alien Hunger | Sheriff Tom Baker | 2017-07-19 |
| Movie | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Mr. Enfield | 2017-01-31 |
| Movie | Rum Runners | Louie | 2016-01-02 |
| Movie | Road War: The Making of 'The Road Warrior' | Self | 2016-12-06 |
| Movie | The Perfect Weapon | The Interrogator | 2016-09-09 |
| Movie | ? (Question-mark) | Willkins | 2016-10-01 |
| Movie | Transmutation: Deep Water Horizon | Robert | 2016-12-07 |
| Movie | The Sector | Shamrock | 2016-07-05 |
| Movie | Western X | The General | 2016-06-01 |
| Movie | Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper | Walsh | 2016-03-16 |
| Movie | The Horde | Earl | 2016-05-06 |
| Movie | Timber the Treasure Dog | Wolf (voice) | 2016-02-05 |
| Movie | Jurassic City | Agent LaFranco | 2015-01-09 |
| Movie | No Solicitors | Sam | 2015-04-11 |
| Movie | Throwback | Detective McNab | 2015-10-16 |
| Movie | Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs | Marcus | 2015-05-19 |
| Movie | Caesar and Otto's Paranormal Halloween | Guy Hunsinger | 2015-06-01 |
| Movie | Relentless Justice | Jason Macendale | 2014-01-01 |
| Movie | Jurassic Attack | Angent Grimaldi | 2013-02-22 |
| Movie | Black Asylum | Sheriff | 2013-05-06 |
| Movie | Like a Bat Outta Hell | Simson | 2013-04-28 |
| Movie | The Dead Undead | Raleigh | 2010-05-13 |
| Movie | Westbrick Murders | Max | 2010-05-11 |
| Movie | World's End | Corvin | 2010-02-24 |
| Movie | Shadows in Paradise | General Ruth | 2010-02-09 |
| Movie | The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! | Network Head (voice) | 2010-03-18 |
| Movie | Charlie Valentine | Broad | 2009-03-01 |
| Movie | Someone's Knocking at the Door | Dr. Tolstoy | 2009-08-21 |
| Movie | Silent Night, Zombie Night | Paul Irwin | 2009-10-31 |
| Movie | The Butcher | 1970's IRA Commander | 2009-07-10 |
| Movie | Green Street Hooligans 2 | Tankersley Governor | 2009-03-23 |
| Movie | Tru Loved | Coach Wesley | 2008-02-27 |
| Movie | ReVamped | Wes | 2007-09-15 |
| Movie | Curse of Pirate Death | Vernon | 2006-11-04 |
| Movie | Blood Ranch | Shotgun | 2006-06-06 |
| Movie | Vagabond | Ivan | 2006-12-12 |
| Movie | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Dr. Dennis Lanyon | 2006-02-01 |
| Movie | Saurian | Alester Carvel | 2006-01-01 |
| Movie | King of the Ants | Beckett | 2004-07-28 |
| Movie | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | Acme VP, Child Labor | 2003-11-14 |
| Movie | Curse of the Forty-Niner | Jeremiah Stone | 2002-10-01 |
| Movie | Power Rangers Time Force: Quantum Ranger - Clash for Control | Ransik | 2001-08-28 |
| Movie | Beneath Loch Ness | Constable | 2001-07-06 |
| Movie | The Education of a Vampire | Captain Andrew Collins | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | Never Look Back | Nick | 2000-03-31 |
| Movie | Starforce | Squad Leader | 2000-07-10 |
| Movie | Wasteland Justice | Tarnak | 1999-01-01 |
| Movie | Billy Frankenstein | Otto | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | The Bad Pack | Biker | 1997-11-11 |
| Movie | Kick of Death | Paulie | 1997-07-17 |
| Movie | Vulcan | Greg Mitchum | 1997-09-24 |
| Movie | Misfit Patrol | Captain Cook | 1996-12-17 |
| Movie | Space Truckers | Mister Cutt | 1996-10-04 |
| Movie | Hard Justice | Galaxy 500 | 1995-07-15 |
| Series | JAG | Unknown | 1995-09-23 |
| Movie | Manosaurus | Professor Sorenson | 1994-11-01 |
| Movie | Ultimatum | Gerard | 1994-02-23 |
| Movie | Stranglehold | Gerald Richter | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | 2002: The Rape of Eden | Mercenary Soldier | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II | Plughead | 1994-04-16 |
| Movie | T-Force | Samuel Washington | 1994-12-08 |
| Series | Power Rangers | Ransik | 1993-08-28 |
| Movie | Fortress | Maddox | 1992-12-18 |
| Movie | Sexual Response | Philip | 1992-12-05 |
| Movie | The Shrimp on the Barbie | Bruce | 1990-08-31 |
| Movie | Crossing the Line | Steve Sinclair | 1990-08-08 |
| Movie | Undeclared War | Hannibal | 1990-09-01 |
| Movie | Circuitry Man | Plughead | 1990-05-01 |
| Movie | Circle of Fear | Allan Bainbridge | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | American Eagle | Johnny Burke | 1989-08-24 |
| Movie | Nam Angels | Chard | 1989-07-07 |
| Movie | Enemy Unseen | Steiger | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | The Gamble | First Brother Podestà | 1988-10-28 |
| Movie | Sunset | Australian Houseman | 1988-04-29 |
| Movie | Last Man Standing | Roo Marcus | 1987-07-14 |
| Movie | Innerspace | Mr. Igoe | 1987-07-01 |
| Movie | P.I. Private Investigations | Detective North | 1987-06-05 |
| Movie | Fortress | Dabby Duck | 1985-11-24 |
| Series | MacGyver | Unknown | 1985-09-29 |
| Movie | Commando | Bennett | 1985-10-03 |
| Movie | Weird Science | Lord General | 1985-08-01 |
| Series | Hunter | Unknown | 1984-09-18 |
| Series | Knight Rider | Wilson | 1982-09-26 |
| Movie | Mad Max 2 | Wez | 1981-12-24 |