Birthday:
05-05-1931
Deathday:
07-14-2001 (70 years)
Birthplace:
Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
Biography
Brian O'Shaughnessy was born on May 5, 1931 in Aldershot, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), Shangani Patrol (1970) and Fraud! (1974). He died on July 14, 2001 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Read morearrow_drop_down
Their works
- Release swap_vert
- Title swap_vert
- Ratings swap_vert
close
Diamond Walkers
Act like Barrett
event1965
top_panel_open
Drama among diamond smugglers and gold fever in South African bush.
Mr. Kingstreet's War
Act like Morgan
event1973 star_border 6
top_panel_open
A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the waterholes.
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Act like Mr. Thompson
event1980 star_border 7.3
top_panel_open
A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.
Mutator
Act like Axelrod
event1989 star_border 3.6
top_panel_open
A beast gets loose in a laboratory, killing all in it's way. A former scientist, now working as a custodian tries to stop it.
Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday
Act like Admiral Norman Henshaw
event1998 star_border 4.2
top_panel_open
A ship captained by the father of the leader of Delta Force is taken hostage by terrorists. As might be expected the force is sent in to stop them.
Strangers at Sunrise
Act like Corporal Caine
event1969 star_border 4
top_panel_open
In the Transvaal, in 1900, the British army condemns to death an American mining engineer for aiding and abetting the Boer enemy. The engineer escapes from custody and takes refuge at an isolated Boer farm. When three deserters from the British army arrive on the scene, the engineer takes steps to protect himself and the Boer family.
Pressure Burst
event1971
top_panel_open
South African Movie
Creatures the World Forgot
Act like Mak
event1971 star_border 5.1
top_panel_open
As the first nomadic tribes wander across the vast wilderness of the infant planet they confront hostilities created by the harsh environment and each other. After a massive volcanic eruption a tribal chief is killed and his two sons fight for supremacy, not only for the leadership of the tribe but also for the love of a beautiful young woman. The age-old battlegrounds of rivalry, envy and passion are explored in this tale of prehistoric adventure.
The Emissary
event1989
top_panel_open
Jack Cavanaugh, handpicked by the US president, is a hard-nosed diplomat constantly on the move between hot-spots around the world. When Russia's KGB use his wife to get access to a top secret computer system, the world's future is at stake. Time is running short and Cavanaugh see no other way out than to take on the foreign agents himself.
Cape Rebel
event1989 star_border 6.5
top_panel_open
Movie version cut from the TV series (Arende) Epic drama of honor, passion and freedom set during the Anglo-Boer War and follows the bound fates of rebellious Boer farmer Sloet Steenkamp and Captain of the British Army James Kerwin. A period drama of a time when Britain colonised by might in Southern Africa. Sloet was a Cape Colonist who refused to surrender to the new rule, and was one of the Cape rebels. After being captured he and many others were taken captive and sent to British concentration camps in Saint Helena where Sloet was doomed to stay forever
Stropers van die Laeveld
event1962
top_panel_open
South African Western
Die Ruiter in die Nag
Act like Captain Ricky
event1963
top_panel_open
It’s 1901, and at Stilhoek the British are planning to cut off a Boer garrison based in the Free State. An officer ordered to find sympathetic local farmers befriends quiet-spoken Sarel Gereke.
Kavaliers
Act like Capt. Ronald Rogers
event1966
top_panel_open
General de Wet asks Boer soldier and Kavalier leader Chris Botha to select 100 of his best men for a “suicide mission” behind enemy lines. First the Kavaliers steal ammunition from right under the noses of the British, and then they leave behind a note taunting the enemy about it.
Danie Bosman: The Story of the Greatest South African composer
Act like Dr. Rodney Masters
event1969
top_panel_open
Danie Bosman is a civil servant dreaming of being a composer. But this is Depression-era South Africa and no one is interested in buying his music. Then, one day, someone hears a song he composed for his son.
Claws
Act like Louw's Father
event1982 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
Set on a lonely South African farm, in the 1920’s. The film revolves around a young boy who is forced into manhood when his father is injured in a riding accident and he is left to fend for himself. The boy is terrorized by an unseen animal.
The Fourth Reich
Act like Major Ellis
event1990 star_border 6
top_panel_open
Robey Leibbrandt was a South African boxer who became fascinated with Nazi ideology during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In1939 he led an operation to overthrow the pro-Allied government of General Jan Smuts.
Decision to Die
Act like Dr. Leon Walters
event1978
top_panel_open
South African Film
Merchants of War
Act like James Sullivan (as Brian O'Shaugnessy)
event1989 star_border 3.6
top_panel_open
The heroes are best friends and commandos sent on a covert mission by the CIA. The mission is a success, but the two incur the wrath of the world's most feared terrorist, a fanatical Islamic, when they set out to do one last mission.
Warhead
event1996 star_border 3.4
top_panel_open
Terrorists seize an American nuclear missile site and threaten to launch the missiles at Washington unless the President resigns immediately and $1 billion is placed in a Swiss account in 8 hours.
Brutal Glory
event1989 star_border 3
top_panel_open
The highly fictionalized making and breaking of Norman Selby, more recognizable as Kid McCoy, the real life American middleweight world boxing champion from the turn of the 20th century.
Shangani Patrol
Act like Maj. Allen Wilson
event1970 star_border 5
top_panel_open
Set in the First Matabele War in what was then Rhodesia; a scouting group from the British South African Company are chasing the Ndebele king Lobengula when they are ambushed by a massive Ndebele forced and must take a desperate last stand.
Act of Piracy
Act like 'Barracuda' Skipper
event1988 star_border 3.9
top_panel_open
A large motor yacht becomes the focal point in this action tale when a group of mercenaries decide to capture the vessel. The original owner, who was delivering it to Sydney, Australia, is believed dead but is in fact very much alive, and determined to recover the yacht...
Zulu Dawn
Act like Maj. Smith R.A.
event1979 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
The Evil Below
Act like Father Shannon
event1989 star_border 3.1
top_panel_open
A down-on-his-luck sea captain goes treasure hunting for a wrecked Spanish galleon that is rumored to be cursed by God and protected by supernatural forces.
Orion's Key
Act like Professor Morton
event1997 star_border 3.2
top_panel_open
After two archaeologists discover an ancient alien artifact in Africa, they must run for their lives from both the unstoppable guardian and protector that awakens as a result, and their greedy, madman employer, both of whom want the artifact.
White Ghost
Act like John Enrlich
event1988 star_border 4.5
top_panel_open
July '72. Vietnam. Lt. Steve Shepard missing in action. Presumed dead...15 years later he's still there.
Mister Deathman
Act like Colonel Duncan
event1977 star_border 4
top_panel_open
Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.
Falling Rocks
Act like Pilot
event2000 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
6 Friends, 1 Killer, No Mercy! Slow moving thriller that builds up towards a nerve wrecking end.
Sandy the Seal
Act like Mackenzie
event1968 star_border 4.5
top_panel_open
When a lighthouse keeper takes in a seal in need and gives to his children to look after, the whole family is drawn into the shadowy world of illegal seal poaching. The family then finds themselves leading the fight to rid their coastal town of the criminals and save the seals.
Hearts & Minds
Act like Col. van Vuuren
event1995
top_panel_open
In the final days of the pro-apartheid government, bigoted policeman and assassin Andries Fourie is assigned an undercover job. His task is to pose as a political progressive to infiltrate the African National Congress and assassinate one of the party’s leaders.
Satan's Harvest
Act like Andrew Murdock
event1970 star_border 5
top_panel_open
Cutter Murdock inherits an estate in Africa on which "Satan's Harvest" (heroin and marijuana) is grown. The thugs growing the drugs want him out of the way, so things get messy.
Operation Hit Squad
Act like Richard
event1987
top_panel_open
A couple of rich women get captured by a group of terrorists, a crack team of mercenaries called Operation Hit Squad are called in to rescue them.
The Power of One
Act like Col. Bretyn
event1992 star_border 7.5
top_panel_open
PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with the motto “fight with your fists and lead with your heart”. As he grows to manhood, PK uses these words to take on the system and the injustices he sees around him - and finds that one person really can make a difference.
African Gold
event1965
top_panel_open
The sky lights up and the desert comes alive on this desperate search for hidden millions.
Seven Against the Sun
Act like Macarthy
event1964 star_border 5
top_panel_open
In February of 1941, South African troops are in action against the Italian forces on the northern frontier of Kenya. An Italian invasion, aimed at pushing the Allied Forces out of Central and East Africa, is imminent. The South African Command realizes it has no forces at its disposal capable of stopping the Italian objective, so they resort to a grand bluff...
Rogue Lion
Act like Alec Dudley
event1972 star_border 4
top_panel_open
In South Africa a new young ranger is transferred to a troubled game reserve. He struggles to be accepted by, and help, his boss, fending off poachers and intruding natives, and gets involved with a poacher's daughter he knew from university.
Fraud!
event1974
top_panel_open
The manager of a leading stockbroking firm is found dead in his car. On inspection, an audit team find that one-and-a-half million pounds worth of shares are missing.
Auf Achse
Act like Smidson (1 ep.)
event1980 star_border 6.3
top_panel_open
The adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world.
Wasted Spring
Act like Jan Greyling (1 ep.)
event1983
top_panel_open
Pop le Roux is a beautiful, but relatively uneducated, boer girl from a poor family. The young men of the county all compete with each other to win her favor. The man she loves is Manie Cronjé, He is just as poor and Pop sees no chance of suffering further. She eventually marries Jan Greyling, the rich widower. Gradually she adapts to her new life and becomes a good wife for Jan.
Scene of the Crime
Act like Piet Brügge (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 6.2
top_panel_open
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Morenga
Act like Herr Lüdemann (3 ep.)
event1985
top_panel_open
Gottschalk and Wenstrup are two German veterinarians who have settled in German Southwest Africa to tend to the needs of cattle ranchers. When a rebellion by a local dissident named Morenga is brutally crushed by the Germans, the two vets get involved, at great risk to themselves, and offer help to the native revolutionaries.
Arende
(33 ep.)
event1989
top_panel_open
Epic drama follows a group of Boers during significant events in South African history. The first series is primarily set on St. Helena and follows the lives of Boer prisoners-of-war at Deadwood Camp. Among them is Sloet Steenkamp, a Cape Rebel whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on the island. The second series shifts to post-war mainland South Africa, where the Boers, though returned, still struggle for freedom. New characters are introduced, including Meisie, who is mute due to trauma, and her mother Cornelia, who seeks revenge.
In the third series, Sloet and his friends, yearning to escape British rule, embark on the Dorsland Trek, a perilous journey across the Kalahari Desert in search of freedom beyond South Africa's borders.
Show more expand_more
keyboard_double_arrow_down