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Brian O'Shaughnessy

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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.

05-05-1931

Birthday

Taurus

Zodiac Sign

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39

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Brian O'Shaugnessy, Brian O'Shaunessy, Brian O'Shaunnessy

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Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK

Place of Birth

Popular works

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actor

39 Works

producer

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director

1 Works

writer

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Falling Rocks

Falling Rocks

6 Friends, 1 Killer, No Mercy! Slow moving thriller that builds up towards a nerve wrecking end.
6.1

Year:

2000

Die Wüstenrose

Die Wüstenrose

0.0

Year:

2000

Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday

Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday

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.
4.2

Year:

1998

Orion's Key

Orion's Key

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.
3.2

Year:

1997

Warhead

Warhead

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.
3.4

Year:

1996

Hearts & Minds

Hearts & Minds

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.
0.0

Year:

1995

The Power of One

The Power of One

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.
7.5

Year:

1992

The Fourth Reich

The Fourth Reich

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.
6.0

Year:

1990

The Emissary

The Emissary

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.
0.0

Year:

1989

Brutal Glory

Brutal Glory

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.
3.0

Year:

1989

The Evil Below

The Evil Below

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.
3.1

Year:

1989

Mutator

Mutator

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.
3.6

Year:

1989

Cape Rebel

Cape Rebel

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
6.5

Year:

1989

Merchants of War

Merchants of War

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.
3.6

Year:

1989

White Ghost

White Ghost

July '72. Vietnam. Lt. Steve Shepard missing in action. Presumed dead...15 years later he's still there.
4.5

Year:

1988

Act of Piracy

Act of Piracy

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...
3.9

Year:

1988

Operation Hit Squad

Operation Hit Squad

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.
0.0

Year:

1987

Claws

Claws

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.
5.5

Year:

1982

The Gods Must Be Crazy

The Gods Must Be Crazy

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.
7.3

Year:

1980

Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
6.1

Year:

1979

Decision to Die

Decision to Die

South African Film
0.0

Year:

1978

Mister Deathman

Mister Deathman

Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.
4.0

Year:

1977

Fraud!

Fraud!

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.
0.0

Year:

1974

Mr. Kingstreet's War

Mr. Kingstreet's War

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the waterholes.
6.0

Year:

1973

Rogue Lion

Rogue Lion

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.
4.0

Year:

1972

Creatures the World Forgot

Creatures the World Forgot

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.
5.1

Year:

1971

Pressure Burst

Pressure Burst

South African Movie
0.0

Year:

1971

Shangani Patrol

Shangani Patrol

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.
5.0

Year:

1970

Satan's Harvest

Satan's Harvest

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.
5.0

Year:

1970

Strangers at Sunrise

Strangers at Sunrise

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.
4.0

Year:

1969

Danie Bosman: The Story of the Greatest South African composer

Danie Bosman: The Story of the Greatest South African composer

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.
0.0

Year:

1969

Sandy the Seal

Sandy the Seal

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.
4.5

Year:

1968

Kavaliers

Kavaliers

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.
0.0

Year:

1966

African Gold

African Gold

The sky lights up and the desert comes alive on this desperate search for hidden millions.
0.0

Year:

1965

Diamond Walkers

Diamond Walkers

Drama among diamond smugglers and gold fever in South African bush.
0.0

Year:

1965

Seven Against the Sun

Seven Against the Sun

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...
5.0

Year:

1964

Die Ruiter in die Nag

Die Ruiter in die Nag

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.
0.0

Year:

1963

Stropers van die Laeveld

Stropers van die Laeveld

South African Western
0.0

Year:

1962