Vernon Wells
Australian character actor Vernon Wells built a lasting career playing tough-guy parts, including memorable villains in such films as "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" and "Commando." As a teenager, he was the lead singer for a band while he studied telecommunications. Upon graduation, he abandoned technical pursuits to become a model before moving into acting, first for commercials and then on Australian television shows. A starring role in a successful run of the play "Hosanna" led to an interview with director George Miller and Wells' most popular role, as the nefarious biker Wez who pursues Mel Gibson in "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior." Due to the popularity of his character, he earned the chance to parody the part a few years later in the science-fiction comedy "Weird Science," directed by John Hughes. For "Commando," he played another villain, this time opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, cementing his status in the '80s action-movie pantheon. Wells invaded the body of Martin Short in "Innerspace" before moving on to less memorable fare, such as "Circuitry Man" and its sequel. He has worked on several films with director Stuart Gordon of "Re-Animator" fame, and held a recurring role on the popular science-fiction series "Power Rangers Time Force."
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Vernon Wells
Filmography
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Apex Predators 2: The Spawning | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Realm of Shadows | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harvest | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Charisma Killers | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Road Wars: Max Fury | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Suicide by Cop | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gladiators | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bring Me a Skin for Dancing In | Richard Daniels (Character) | - | 2024 |
83% | No Score Yet | Young, Sexy, and Dead | Eric (Character) | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ghost | Jeremiah (Character) | - | 2023 |
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Murder Syndicate | Roddy (Character) | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | End of Loyalty | Rooker (Character) | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Transmission |
Unknown (Character), Producer |
- | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Green Oak Guardian |
Unknown (Character), Producer |
- | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blood and Snow | The Professor (Character) | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beast Inside | Unknown (Character) | - | 2022 |
53% |
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The Price We Pay | The Doctor (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Christmas Tapes | Unknown (Character) | - | 2022 |
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Frost | Grant (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Forbearance | Dr. George Ross (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Showdown in Yesteryear | Orsone Kane (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sally Floss: Digital Detective | Papa (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Electric Man | Doogie (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jack Be Nimble |
Jack (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Bachelor's Valentine | Stuart Knapp (Character) | - | 2022 |
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Thor: God of Thunder | Odin (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Name and Dynamite | Black Jack Bennett (Character) | - | 2022 |
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Shadows | Cliff (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales From the Other Side | William (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Soul Cage | The Persuader (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Of the Devil | Father Bennet (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Werewolf Cabal | Captain Henry Sullivan (Character) | - | 2022 |
80% |
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Red Snow | Julius King (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Christmas Collision | Ronan (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kringle Time | Herb (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bearry | Detective Seahorn (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hide and Go Seek | Bill (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Starspawn: Overture | Randolph Sutton (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bird | Fred (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Social Distance | Unknown (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Christmas Wish | Hank Wentworth (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Camp Twilight | Detective Bennett (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Impact Event | Ed (Character) | - | 2020 |
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Emerald Run | Dodson (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kill Giggles | Malcolm Fossor (Giggles) (Character) | - | 2020 |
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In Search of the Last Action Heroes | Self | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Silent Natural | Sarah's Father (Character) | - | 2019 |
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Crossbreed | Murphy (Character) | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Await the Dawn | Zed (Character) | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lilith | Phillip (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | City of Gold |
The Inquisitor (Character), Producer |
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Glass Jaw | Happy (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Landfall |
Wexler (Character), Co-Producer |
- | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Mr. Enfield (Character) | - | 2017 |
100% |
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Trouble Is My Business | Detective Barry Tate (Character) | - | 2017 |
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Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper | Walsh (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rum Runners | Louie (Character) | - | 2016 |
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The Horde | Earl (Character) | - | 2016 |
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The Perfect Weapon | The interrogator (Character) | - | 2016 |
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The Sector | Shamrock (Character) | - | 2016 |
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Caesar & Otto's Paranormal Halloween | Guy Hunsinger (Character) | - | 2015 |
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Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs | Marcus (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Relentless Justice | Jason Macendale (Character) | - | 2014 |
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Throwback | Detective McNab (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Savior of None | Pauli (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Like a Bat Outta Hell | Simson (Character) | - | 2013 |
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Jurassic Attack | Agent Grimaldi (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lackey | Mr. Dechlan (Character) | - | 2012 |
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Shadows in Paradise | General Ruth (Character) | - | 2010 |
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Westbrick Murders | Max (Character) | - | 2010 |
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The Dead Undead | Raleigh (Character) | - | 2010 |
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Drop Dead Gorgeous | Unknown (Character) | - | 2010 |
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The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! | Network Head (Voice) | - | 2010 |
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Someone's Knocking at the Door | Dr. Tolstoy (Character) | - | 2009 |
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Silent Night, Zombie Night | Paul Irwin (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | It's a Wonderful Death | Big Tony (Character) | - | 2008 |
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Unknown (Character) | $19.1K | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Saurian | Alester Carvel (Character) | - | 2006 |
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Curse of the Forty-Niner | Jeremiah Stone (Character) | - | 2003 |
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King of the Ants | Beckett (Character) | - | 2003 |
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Beneath Loch Ness | Constable (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Starforce | Squad Leader (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Billy Frankenstein | Otto (Character) | - | 1998 |
17% |
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Space Truckers | Mister Cutt (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vulcan | Greg Mitchum (Character) | - | 1997 |
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Hard Justice | Galaxy 500 (Character) | - | 1995 |
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T-Force | Samuel Washington (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stranglehold | Gerald Richter (Character) | - | 1994 |
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Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II | Plughead (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ultimatum | Gerard Richter (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bounty Hunter 2002 | Mercenary Soldier (Character) | - | 1994 |
38% |
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Fortress | Maddox (Character) | $6.5M | 1992 |
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Sexual Response | Philip (Character) | - | 1992 |
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Circuitry Man | Plughead (Character) | - | 1990 |
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The Shrimp on the Barbie | Bruce (Character) | $402.1K | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Undeclared War | Hannibal (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | American Eagle | Johnny Burke (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Circle of Fear | Allan Bainbridge (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Crossing the Line | Steve Sinclair (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Enemy Unseen | Steiger (Character) | - | 1989 |
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'Nam Angels | Chard (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gamble | Unknown (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Man Standing | Roo Marcus (Character) | - | 1987 |
82% |
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Innerspace | Mr. Igoe (Character) | $25.9M | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | P.I. Private Investigations | Detective North (Character) | $21.3K | 1987 |
68% |
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Commando | Bennett (Character) | $34.9M | 1985 |
93% |
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | Wez (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Amber Road | Sherriff Taylor (Character) | - |
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No Score Yet | 79% | Power Rangers | Ransik (Character) | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Exposure | Unknown (Character) | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | JAG | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
81% | 67% | Conan | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 70% | MacGyver | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 1988 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Knight Rider | Wilson (Guest Star) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunter | Sonny Zajak (Guest Star) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fall Guy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cash and Company | Trooper 6 (Character) | 1975 |