Vernon Wells
Biography
Vernon George Wells (born 31 December 1945) is an Australian film and television actor who has built his career around action-type films, most often cast as a villain. He began appearing on Australian television shows in the mid-1970s, such as Homicide and Matlock Police and All The Rivers Run. He is best known to international audiences for his role of "Wez", in the 1981 science fiction action film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. After Mad Max 2, Wells began appearing in Hollywood films, such as the military action film Commando (1985) (as Bennett), which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the science fiction comedy Innerspace (1987), which starred Martin Short, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. In the 2000s, Wells acted in the television series Power Rangers: Time Force portraying the series' main villain 'Ransik'. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vernon Wells(actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Billy Frankenstein
as Otto
1998
Innerspace
as Mr. Igoe
1987
Commando
as Bennett
1985
Charlie Valentine
as Broad
2009
Circuitry Man
as Plughead
1990
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
as Plughead
1994
ReVamped
as Wes
2007
King of the Ants
as Beckett
2004
Christmas Collision
as Ronan
2021
Fortress
as Maddox
1992
Mad Max 2
as Wez
1981
Amber Road
as Sheriff Taylor
2022
End of Loyalty
as Rooker
2023
Area 5150
as Rocco
TBA
Starforce
as Squad Leader
2000
The Shrimp on the Barbie
as Bruce
1990
Silent Night, Zombie Night
as Paul Irwin
2009
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Dr. Dennis Lanyon
2006
Shadows in Paradise
as General Ruth
2010
Ghost
as Jeremiah
2023
