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Vernon Wells
Full filmography, with links to many pictures and additional information
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Biography
Date of birth: 30.12.1945
Place of birth: Rushworth, Victoria, Australia
Vernon Wells has been in a band that preceeded the forming of the rock band Rose Tattoo. Its name was "Le Primitive". Angry Anderson, the actor that played Ironbar in Mad Max 3, was a musician in both bands.
Before his career as an actor, Vernon Wells was a quarry worker and a salesman. After that he started his modelling and acting career in TV ads and magazine ads. His television debut was in a Razzamatazz commercial as a model.
He has also worked as a DJ during and after the making of the Mad Max film. He also had Wez' mohawk - at that time it was his own hair dressing!
Ever since his career start, Vernon Wells has played alongside numerous actors, such as Mel Gibson (in Mad Max 2, 1981) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (in Commando, 1985), and in a total of about sixty movies. He mainly plays supporting roles, mostly villains. To the younger audience he is probably best known for his role as Ransik in the Power Rangers Time Force series. He is sometimes credited as Vernon G. Wells.
INTERVIEWS:
An interview from warp-online.de (in German)
An interview from Critical Eye, with Stuart Gordon and Vernon Wells on he movie "King of Ants".
PICTURES
Pictures from films
Pictures sent in by fans etc.
Further information not (yet) available
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