Shane Briant

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Shane Briant
Born (1946-08-17) 17 August 1946 (age 77)
London, England
NationalityEnglish
OccupationActor
SpouseWendy Lycett

Shane Briant (born 17 August 1946 in London, England) is an English actor and novelist. Briant studied Law at Trinity College Dublin but became a professional actor playing the lead in Hamlet at the Eblana Theatre, Dublin. Briant is best known for his roles in four Hammer Films productions: Demons of the Mind, Straight On Till Morning, Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. He currently resides in Sydney, Australia with his wife Wendy (née Lycett).

Stage and screen

A year later[when?] he played one of the leads in Children of the Wolf, with Sheelagh Cullen and Yvonne Mitchell at London's Apollo Theatre. Briant was subsequently nominated for the 'Best Newcomer' award by the London theatre critics that year for this role. Put under contract at Elstree Film Studios in late 1973, Briant starred in four films; Straight on Till Morning, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter and Demons of the Mind. He also appeared in television series such as Van der Valk, The Sweeney, and Jack Gold's The Naked Civil Servant with John Hurt. During this time Briant appeared in many BBC drama series and Plays of the Month, most notably Warris Hussein's Notorious Woman opposite Rosemary Harris, George Chakiris and Jeremy Irons. In 1973, in Hollywood, he played the title role in Glenn Jordan's The Picture of Dorian Gray a two part Movie of the Week for America's ABC network. Other later film and television credits include John Huston's The Mackintosh Man with Paul Newman; guest starring in Jeffrey Bloom's Veronica Clare; playing Jack Palance's son in the film Hawk the Slayer; starring in David Wolper's Murder is Easy with Olivia de Havilland; and Just Jaekin's Lady Chatterley's Lover. According to Filmink " he specialised in beautiful, androgynous, tormented young men."[1]

Since the early 1980s, much of Briant's acting work has been in Australian and New Zealand films and television. He has starred in 14 films in Australia and New Zealand, including Simon Wincer's The Lighthorsemen, Shaker Run, Chamelian 3, Grievous Bodily Harm, Run Chrissie Run! and Cassandra. His TV credits include: Anzacs, The Flying Doctors, Bodysurfer, Darlings of the Gods, The Man from Snowy River, Wildside, Mission: Impossible, Murder Call, the European co-production Mission Top Secret, All Saints, False Witness and the American sci-fi series Farscape and Time Trax. Briant portrayed the governor of Bombay in Roland Joffé's epic drama Singularity.[2][3]

Writing and art

Briant has had seven novels published in Australia and one in the United States. In Australia, The Webber Agenda (1994), The Chasen Catalyst (1995), Hitkids (1999), Bite of the Lotus (2001) and Graphic (2005) Worst Nightmares and The Dreamhealer, and in the United States Worst Nightmares. His American released novel, Worst Nightmares was published in hardback by Vanguard Press in 2009; a mass market edition was published in 2010. Shane finished the sequel on 3 March 2011, The Dreamhealer. His latest novel, Live Feed, an indictment of the electronic media couched within the framework of a thriller, was released on Amazon.com and Createspace.com in July 2015. He has written an autobiography titled Always the Bad Guy which is only available online at Amazon.

The first short film he wrote, A Message from Fallujah won the "Best of the Fest" award at the 2005 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and was in the final mix of ten shorts for consideration for an Academy Award that year.

He has an exhibitions of his art work at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1971 Von Richthofen and Brown German Pilot
1972 Straight on Till Morning Peter Clive
1972 Demons of the Mind Emil
1973 The Picture of Dorian Gray Dorian Gray TV movie
1973 The Mackintosh Man Cox
1974 Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter Paul Durward
1974 Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell Simon
1975 The Naked Civil Servant Norma TV movie
1980 Hawk the Slayer Drogo
1981 Lady Chatterley's Lover Sir Clifford Chatterley
1984 Run Chrissie Run! Terrier
1984 Constance Simon Malyon
1985 Shaker Run Paul Thoreau
1986 Comrades Lieutenant Mann
1987 Cassandra Stephen
1987 The Lighthorsemen Reichert
1987 Nancy Wake Gestapo Major
1988 Grievous Bodily Harm Stephen Enderby
1989 Out of the Body Paul Mitz
1989 Outback Allenby
1991 Till There Was You Rex
1995 Tunnel Vision Inspector Bosey
2003 Subterano Cunningham
2003 Liquid Bridge Carl Sinclair
2008 The Children of Huang Shi Roger Appsley
2013 Serangoon Road Major Lawrence Miller 7 episodes
2013 Singularity Governor Hornby
2015 Gallipoli Sir Frederick Stopford
2019 Sherlock Holmes vs. Frankenstein Simon Helder

References

  1. ^ Vagg, Stephen (28 June 2020). "Ten random Australian connections with Hammer Films". Filmink.
  2. ^ "Bram Stoker Horror Film Festival - Shane Briant discusses his upcoming movie project Singularity directed by Roland Joffé". The Black Box Club. 17 October 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2010. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ "Shane Briant - Watch for Singularity at Cannes". AM FM Magazine. Christine. 30 November 2011. Archived from the original on 22 January 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2011.

External links

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