Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
June 18, 1957
Place of Birth:
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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Ralph Brown
Biography
Ralph William John Brown (born 18 June 1957) is an English actor and writer, known for playing Danny the drug dealer in Withnail and I, the security guard Aaron (a.k.a. "85") in Alien 3, DJ Bob Silver in The Boat That Rocked aka Pirate Radio, super-roadie Del Preston in Wayne's World 2, the pilot Ric Olié in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and Henry Clinton in Turn: Washington's Spies. He won The Samuel Beckett Award for his first play Sanctuary written for Joint Stock Theatre Company in 1987, and the Raindance and Sapporo Film Festival awards for his first screenplay for the British film New Year's Day in 2001.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Scala!!! | Self |
| 2024 | War Game | Lieutenant General Roger Simms |
| 2023 | Genie | Sorcerer |
| 2019 | An Accidental Studio | Self |
| 2019 | Gemini Man | Del Patterson |
| 2018 | Final Score | Steed |
| 2016 | Reg | Bob Clay |
| 2016 | Jackie | Dave Powers |
| 2015 | Hard Tide | Gaz |
| 2014 | The Seventeenth Kind | Herbert |
| 2013 | Jack the Giant Slayer | General Entin |
| 2013 | Stoker | Sheriff Howard |
| 2013 | All Things To All Men | McDeer |
| 2012 | Dark Tide | Brady |
| 2012 | Tower Block | Neville |
| 2012 | I, Anna | George Stone |
| 2011 | Killing Bono | Leo |
| 2010 | Mission London | Detective Collway |
| 2010 | SUS | Karn |
| 2010 | Huge | Neil |
| 2010 | The Kid | Gordon Peters |
| 2009 | The Boat That Rocked | Bob |
| 2008 | Schrader's Exorcism | Self |
| 2008 | Caught in the Act | Joep Schut |
| 2007 | The Contractor | Jeremy Collins |
| 2007 | Straightheads | Jamie |
| 2007 | Flood | Mel's Dad Neil |
| 2006 | Puritan | Mickey Conway |
| 2005 | Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist | Sergeant Major |
| 2005 | Stoned | Gysin |
| 2005 | Big Dippers | Dave |
| 2004 | Exorcist: The Beginning | Sergeant Major |
| 2003 | I'll Be There | Digger |
| 2003 | Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' | Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | The Final Curtain | Timothy |
| 2002 | Lenny Blue | Barry Hindes |
| 2001 | Mean Machine | Burton |
| 2001 | Alien Evolution | Self / 'Aaron' |
| 2001 | Last Run | |
| 2000 | New Year's Day | Mr. Diamond |
| 1999 | Withnail and Us | Self |
| 1999 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | Ric Olié |
| 1998 | Up 'n' Under | Phil |
| 1997 | Amistad | Lieutenant Gedney |
| 1997 | The Place of the Dead | Sgt Bob Mann |
| 1994 | Requiem Apache | Mick |
| 1993 | Wayne's World 2 | Del Preston |
| 1993 | Undercover Blues | Leamington |
| 1992 | The Crying Game | Dave |
| 1992 | Alien³ | Aaron |
| 1991 | Impromptu | Eugene Delacroix |
| 1991 | The Pope Must Die | Doctor |
| 1990 | Dark Obsession | Jack |
| 1990 | Scala | Self |
| 1990 | A Curious Suicide | |
| 1989 | Scandal | Paul Mann |
| 1988 | Buster | Ronny Biggs |
| 1988 | Coppers | |
| 1988 | The Black and Blue Lamp | |
| 1987 | Withnail & I | Danny |
| 1986 | London's Burning: The Movie | Policeman |
| 1985 | Black Arrow | Yardley |
| 1984 | The Hit | Second Man |
| 1982 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | John |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Sexy Beast | Roger Riley |
| 2024 | American Sports Story | Tremaine |
| 2021 | Leverage: Redemption | Ramsey |
| 2019 | Godfather of Harlem | President Lyndon Johnson |
| 2018 | New Amsterdam | Sid Chiltern |
| 2017 | Genius | Max Planck |
| 2015 | Marvel's Agent Carter | Dr. Ivchenko |
| 2014 | Legends | Terrence Graves |
| 2014 | The Assets | Wallace Austin |
| 2012 | Elementary | Tim Sherrington |
| 2012 | The Poison Tree | Max Capel |
| 2011 | Death in Paradise | Charlie Blake |
| 2010 | Him & Her | Niguel |
| 2007 | Meadowlands | |
| 2006 | Life on Mars | Frank Morgan |
| 2006 | Rich Hall's Cattle Drive | |
| 2006 | Modern Toss | |
| 2004 | Lawless | Phil Howell |
| 2002 | Spooks | Paul Seymour |
| 2001 | Waking the Dead | Mike Coleman |
| 2000 | Lock, Stock... | Miami Vice |
| 1999 | The Last Train | |
| 1999 | Cleopatra | Guevarius |
| 1999 | Extremely Dangerous | Joe Connor |
| 1998 | A Respectable Trade | Dr. Hadley |
| 1997 | Jonathan Creek | Roy Pilgrim |
| 1997 | Ivanhoe | Prince John |
| 1997 | Lexx | Duke |
| 1996 | Dalziel & Pascoe | Sam Connon |
| 1996 | Karaoke | Peter Beasley |
| 1993 | Peak Practice | Stephen Westwood |
| 1992 | A Touch of Frost | |
| 1989 | Rules of Engagement | Mick Rendall |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | John |
| 1972 | Van der Valk | Inspector Rep |