Peter O'Brian (actor)

Peter O'Brian (born July 27, 1956) is a New Zealand actor best known for playing Alex Tarambuan in the movie The Intruder. He is not to be confused with the Australian actor Peter O'Brien.

O'Brian has only featured in strictly Indonesian productions. Nearly all of his movies have involved Arizal or the Indonesian producers The Punjabi Brothers; he has also worked closely with Jopi Burnama. According to the Internet Movie Database, The Stabilizer was O'Brian's first movie.

Older news confirmed that Peter was working at a leading English language institute in Jakarta Indonesia, teaching English from 1998 to 2006. Peter was a Market Development Manager for the same leading English language institute called EEP from 2000 to 2006. From 2006 to 2009 Peter took a job as an English teacher at an International High School in Jakarta. In early 2010 Peter was a TOEFL lecturer at Binus International University Jarkarta. In August 2010 Peter returned to New Zealand with his two teenage children because they wanted to go to an English speaking College and experience New Zealand. In September Peter started lecturing at EDENZ Business College in Tauranga. For 3 years, he lectured Business Communications and Organisation and Management. After that he started working as a life coach for Impact Tauranga an alternative education provider and a mentoring agency, where he worked for a year and a half. Peter's next career path was with a Maori organisation called Te Tuinga Whanau where he worked as a mentor manager for 3 years. His current post is with a youth organisation called youthorizons as a caregiver looking after and male role modelling, and attending Faith Bible College at the same time. O'Brian is planning to make a comeback to the screen, and has been offered a role as the British soldier General Cameron, commander at the Battle of Gate Pa. Peter eagerly plans to do Feature Films here in New Zealand and abroad starting late 2016, onwards.

Filmography

• The Stabilizer (1986) [Segi Tiga Emas]
• The Intruder (1986) [Pembalasan Rambu]
• Forceful Impact 1987 [Arizal]
• Jungle Heat (1988) [Rimba Panas]
• Double Crosser (1989) [Membakar Lingkaran Api]
• Lethal Hunter aka American Hunter (1990) [Pemburu Berdarah Dingin]
• Triple Cross aka Angel of Fury (1990) [Pertempuran Segi Tiga]
• Time Game 1998 [Sanu Samtani (Rapi Film)

Trivia

• Peter O'Brian is known as P'OB to his fans
• O'Brian once had a huge falling out with Jopi Burnama, the producer of The Intruder (1986 film) over the opening scene in which an old lady, Bu Yadi was at fault for the car accident.
• O'Brian has played an evil character in two films; Triple Cross and Lethal Hunter.
• O'Brians most eloquent and interesting character is "Peter" in Jungle Heat. O'Brian expertly juxtaposes the character's tendency to use foul language with his "wow" expression in the scene where Peter is chosen as the suitor.
• Peter O'Brian has a big following amongst Milton Keynes Dons fans.
• When filming The Intruder, Peter O'Brian actually took a severe blow to the sternum during a fight scene. When asked if he was in pain he responded "pain is weakness leaving the body".
• The VHS version of Triple Cross released in the US under the alternative title of Angel Of Fury has been re-dubbed and is heavily cut. Cuts have been made to both scenes of violence and dialogue.
• His real name is Peter John Wilson
• He had taught Humanities in Mentari International School in Jakarta (MISJ)
• He had also taught Language A English in Mentari International School in Jakarta (MISJ)
• He starred in the pop video 'Weed Bus' by Liverpool group, The Stairs - he portrayed 'Tony Beep-Beep'

External links

• Peter O'Brian at IMDb