Personal Info
Birth date
1931-05-05 (94 Years)
Day of death
2001-07-14
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
Also known as
Brian O'Shaughnassy
Brian O'Shaugnessy
Brian O'Shaunessy
Brian O'Shaunnessy
Brian O'Shaughnessy
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.
Filmography
Scene of the Crime
6.109
Overview:
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.Arende
NYR
Overview:
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.The Gods Must Be Crazy
7.273
Overview:
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.Wasted Spring
NYR
Overview:
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.The Power of One
7.474
Overview:
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.Zulu Dawn
6
Overview:
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.Morenga
NYR
Overview:
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.Satan's Harvest
5
Overview:
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.Warhead
3.111
Overview:
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.Creatures the World Forgot
5.038
Overview:
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.Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday
4.2
Overview:
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.Mutator
3.3
Overview:
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.Act of Piracy
3.3
Overview:
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...Mister Deathman
4
Overview:
Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.Brutal Glory
2.6
Overview:
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.Hearts & Minds
NYR
Overview:
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.Sandy the Seal
4.5
Overview:
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.Claws
5.5
Overview:
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.Falling Rocks
5.917
Overview:
6 Friends, 1 Killer, No Mercy! Slow moving thriller that builds up towards a nerve wrecking end.White Ghost
4.5
Overview:
July '72. Vietnam. Lt. Steve Shepard missing in action. Presumed dead...15 years later he's still there.Mr. Kingstreet's War
6
Overview:
A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the waterholes.The Emissary
1
Overview:
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.Die Ruiter in die Nag
NYR
Overview:
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.Rogue Lion
4
Overview:
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.Danie Bosman: The Story of the Greatest South African composer
NYR
Overview:
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.Merchants of War
3.6
Overview:
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.Shangani Patrol
5
Overview:
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.Acting
2000Falling Rocks as Pilot
2000Die Wüstenrose as Dr. Hermann Kummerow
1998Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday as Admiral Norman Henshaw
1997Orion's Key as Professor Morton
1996Warhead as Unknown
1995Hearts & Minds as Col. van Vuuren
1992The Power of One as Col. Bretyn
1990The Fourth Reich as Major Ellis
1989The Emissary as Unknown
1989Brutal Glory as Unknown
1989The Evil Below as Father Shannon
1989Mutator as Axelrod
1989Cape Rebel as Unknown
1989Arende (33 Episodes) as Unknown
1989Merchants of War as James Sullivan (as Brian O'Shaugnessy)
1988White Ghost as John Enrlich
1988Act of Piracy as 'Barracuda' Skipper
1987Operation Hit Squad as Richard
1985Morenga (3 Episodes) as Herr Lüdemann
1983Wasted Spring (1 Episode) as Jan Greyling
1982Claws as Louw's Father
1980Auf Achse (1 Episode) as Smidson
1980The Gods Must Be Crazy as Mr. Thompson
1979Zulu Dawn as Maj. Smith R.A.
1978Decision to Die as Dr. Leon Walters
1977Mister Deathman as Colonel Duncan
1974...und die Nacht kennt kein Erbarmen as Dr. Page
1974Fraud! as Unknown
1973Mr. Kingstreet's War as Morgan
1972Rogue Lion as Alec Dudley
1971Creatures the World Forgot as Mak
1971Pressure Burst as Unknown
1970Shangani Patrol as Maj. Allen Wilson
1970Scene of the Crime (1 Episode) as Piet Brügge
1970Satan's Harvest as Andrew Murdock
1969Strangers at Sunrise as Corporal Caine
1969Danie Bosman: The Story of the Greatest South African composer as Dr. Rodney Masters
1968Sandy the Seal as Mackenzie
1966Kavaliers as Capt. Ronald Rogers
1965African Gold as Unknown
1965Diamond Walkers as Barrett
1964Seven Against the Sun as Macarthy
1963Die Ruiter in die Nag as Captain Ricky
1962Stropers van die Laeveld as Unknown
Writing
1988Silent Hunter ... Writer