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Bruce Spence (left), George Miller & Mel Gibson on set MM2
Bruce Spence (born 17 September 1945) is an actor who portrays the Gyro Captain in George Miller's 1981 film Mad Max 2 and portrays Jedediah in Miller's 1985 film Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
Biography[]
To be added
Selected Filmography[]
Acting[]
- Stork (1971) (Won AFI award for Best actor)
- The Cars that Ate Paris (1974)
- Dimboola (1979)
- Dark City (1998)
- FarScape TV series (2002).
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- The Matrix: Revolutions (2003)
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
- Legend of the Seeker (TV series) (2008-2010).
Trivia[]
- Spence is one of three actors in the Mad Max series to play two separate and distinct characters, e.g. Gyro Captain / Jedediah. The others are Hugh Keays-Byrne (Toecutter in Mad Max / Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road) and Max Fairchild (Benno in Mad Max / Broken Victim in Mad Max 2)
- Spence has also played a supporting character in the third and final installment of four separate, high-profile film trilogies: Jedediah in Beyond Thunderdome, the Trainman in The Matrix Revolutions, The Mouth of Sauron in the extended cut of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and Tion Meddon in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
- Spence co-stars in the upcoming film Gods of Egypt with Fury Road performers Courtney Eaton and Abbey Lee Kershaw.