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Spence won an AFI Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1971 comedy Stork. Spence's best known film role is as the gyrocopter pilot in Mad Max 2 (1981). He also played the lead role in Werner Herzog's Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) and portrayed Jedediah the pilot in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985).
Bruce has appeared in close to 100 films, including Mad Max 2 ("The Road Warrior") and 3 ("Beyond Thunderdome"), "Ace Ventura" Part II, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith", "Finding Nemo", "The Matrix Revolutions" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales".
- January 1, 1
- 1.99 m
- Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
Colleen Clifford and Bruce Spence in Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)- Michael Edols, Roy Marika, Wandjuk Marika, and Bruce Spence in Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
- Roy Marika, Wandjuk Marika, and Bruce Spence in Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
- Norman Kaye, Roy Marika, Wandjuk Marika, and Bruce Spence in Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
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Jedediah was a marauding pilot in the Outback who traded stolen goods at Bartertown. He flew The Flying Jalopy and had a son, Jedediah Jr.. He was portrayed by Bruce Spence in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
While crisscrossing the desert in his cart pulled by camels, Max is attacked by Jedediah who circulates aboard a mini-plane (model Transavia PL-12 Airtruk) with the complicity of his son who takes the handle of plane while Jedediah jumps from the plane onto the cart and grabs it. While pursuing his thieves, Max arrives in a town, Bartertown, which is literally "the town of barter", dedicated to commerce, which is governed by Entity. Jedediah later witnesses Max's fight with Blaster.
Later Max and the Lost Tribe later stumble upon Jedediah again as his son tries to flee them and the armed Bartertown convoy in pursuit of them and takes refuge in Jedediah's Safehouse. Jedediah then had no choice but to help them, in spite of himself, by piloting his mini-plane in order to help the children to escape, while Max nearly sacrifices himself by running head on into the pursuers, clearing the passage in the process so that the plane can take off.
•There is debate amongst fans regarding whether Jedediah from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome is also the Gyro Captain from Mad Max 2, as the actor Bruce Spence portrays the two characters, both of which having similar characteristics. George Miller has stated that they are in fact different characters altogether. The ending of The Road Warrior also st...
Jul 10, 1985 · Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: Directed by George Miller, George Ogilvie. With Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn, Tina Turner. After being exiled from the most advanced town in post-apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- George Miller, George Ogilvie
- 1985-07-10
May 21, 1982 · Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior: Directed by George Miller. With Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston, Max Phipps. In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community get rid of a horde of bandits.
- (195K)
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- George Miller
- 1982-05-21
Jan 4, 2021 · Bruce Spence plays a friendly weirdo who pilots a gyrocopter in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. He helps Max Rockatansky, a former cop who seeks revenge in a dystopian future.
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May 24, 2024 · Bruce Spence returns to play Jedediah in "Thunderdome," an airplane pilot who is explicitly not the same person as the Gyro Captain, who is a Gyrocopter pilot that Spence played in "Mad Max...
