Where Are They Now - January 31, 2014

Hello fans,

Australian actor Vernon Wells became known to international audiences with his role as psychotic gang leader "Wez" in 1981's Mad Max 2. He went on to have a long acting career that continues to this day. Let's find out more about Wells' early career and what he is doing these days.

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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--

See if you know if the following celebrities have had a
visit from the "Grim Reaper":

Lesley Ann Warren: She was Cinderella in the 1966 TV movie
"Cinderella", she's also appeared in many movies, including
"Victor/Victoria", "Clue" (where she played Ms. Scarlet),
"Baja Oklahoma", and "The Color of Night"

M. Emmet Walsh: He has appeared in many, many movies, most
notably "Blood Simple", others include "Blade Runner",
"Silkwood", "Narrow Margin" and "Ordinary People"

Richard Jaeckel: He appeared in "The Dirty Dozen", "The
Drowning Pool", "Starman", "Black Moon Rising" and other
movies

(Answer at the bottom)

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Vernon Wells
http://www.celebritynooz.com/vernon_wells.aspx

BIRTH DATE: December 31, 1945, Rushworth, Victoria, Australia

CLAIM TO FAME: He is well known for his role as "Wez"
in Mad Max 2

INFO: Wells got his start in the 1970s, when casting
agents selected him to appear in a theatre play. This
kicked off appearances in Australian television
commercials, print advertisements, local shows such as
Homicide and Matlock Police and historical TV mini-
series like Against The Wind, Sara Dane and All The
Rivers Run.

His first film role was in the erotic fantasy film
Felicity (1979), and later portrayed psychotic biker
"Wez" in Mad Max 2 (1981). Wells spoofed this role in
the 1985 teen comedy Weird Science, written and directed
by John Hughes and produced by Joel Silver. He was
chosen by Silver to play the role of Bennett in Commando
(1985).

In the 1990s, Wells appeared in the short-lived
television comedy series The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys,
as well as the films Fortress (1993), Circuitry Man
(1990), and Kick of Death (1997).

TRIVIA: Refers to "Captain Bennett," his Commando (1985)
character, as "Freddie Mercury on steroids."

Former SAS commando.

WHERE IS HE NOW: Wells still continues to act on a
regular basis. In 2013, he appeared in the sci-fi film
Rise of the Dinosaurs, the Australian thriller Nowhere
Else, and the movie short Black Asylum. He also appeared
on an episode of the TV series Kickin' It as Grandpa
McCrary. He voices many popular video games, such as
The Ultimate Spiderman, and Dungeon & Dragons.

WRITE TO VERNON WELLS: Visit his official website below
for contact info!

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.vernongwells.com/


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CREDITS:

2014 Cowboys vs Dinosaurs (post-production)...Marcus

2014 The Sector (post-production)...Shamrock

2014 Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper (post-production)...Walsh

2014 Jurassic Block (post-production)...Agent LaFranco

2014 Don't Wait Til Dawn (post-production)...Sheriff Carter

2014 Relentless Justice...Jason Macendale

2014 The Darling Clementines (pre-production)...James Smith

2014 3 Solitude (announced)...Joseph O'Sullivan

2014 Alien Hunger (post-production)...Sheriff Thom Baker

2014 Shades of Vengeance (pre-production)...Chief (rumored)

2013 Savior of none (post-production)...Pauli

2013 Throwback (completed)...Detective McNab

2013 Black Asylum (Short)...Sheriff

2013 Kickin' It (TV Series)...Grandpa McCrary
Meet the McKrupnicks (2013)

2013 Nowhere Else...Simson

2013 Rise of the Dinosaurs...Agent Grimaldi

2012 100,000 Zombie Heads...Lubashk

2012 The Lackey...Mr. Dechlan

2012 Darksiders II (Video Game)...Samael (voice)

2011 The Death & Life of Eddy Betsco...McCready

2010 Western X...The General

2010 Changing Hands...Charlie

2010 Vanguard...Mr. Shane

2010 The Dead Undead...Raleigh

2010 Drop Dead Gorgeous (Video)

2010 Westbrick Murders...Max

2010 The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!...Network Head (voice)

2010 World's End...Corvin

2010 Shadows in Paradise...General Ruth

2010 Darksiders (Video Game)...Samael (voice)

2009 Silent Night, Zombie Night...Paul Irwin

2009 The Butcher...1970's IRA Commander (as Vernon Maxwell)

2009 The Dream of Alvareen (Video)...Octagon

2009 Someone's Knocking at the Door...Dr. Tolstoy

2009 Green Street Hooligans 2 (Video)...Tankersley Governor

2009 The Hitmen Diaries: Charlie Valentine...Broad

2008 Hollywood Confidential...Lt. Stone

2008 Tru Loved...Coach Wesley

2008 It's a Wonderful Death (Short)...Big Tony

2008 Have Sword Will Travel (TV Movie)...Ruby Slayer

2007 Golden Axe: Beast Rider (Video Game) (voice)

2007 Revamped (Video)...Wes

2006 Vagabond...Ivan

2006 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...Dr. Dennis Lanyon

2006 Blood Ranch (Video)...Shotgun

2006 Saurian (TV Movie)...Alester Carvel

2005 Ty 3: Night of the Quinkan (Video Game)...Ridge (voice)

2005 Meet Me in Miami...Mr. Abbott

2005 Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard (Video Game) (voice)

2005 Ultimate Spider-Man (Video Game) (voice)

2005 Chastity...Trucker

2003 Devil's Knight...Frank

2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action...Acme VP, Child Labor (as Vernon G. Wells)

2003/I King of the Ants...Beckett

2002 Power Rangers Time Force: The End of Time (Video)...Ransik

2002 Power Rangers Time Force: Dawn of Destiny (Video)...Ransik

2002 Jumper...Pauly Juliano

2002 Curse of the Forty-Niner...Jeremiah Stone

2002 Power Rangers Wild Force (TV Series)...Ransik
Reinforcements from the Future: Part 2 (2002)
Reinforcements from the Future: Part 1 (2002)

2002 Beneath Loch Ness...Constable

2002 The Killing Point (Video)...Benton

2001 Power Rangers Time Force: Photo Finish (Video)...Ransik

2001 The Education of a Vampire...Captain Andrew Collins

2001 Power Rangers Time Force - Quantum Ranger: Clash for Control (Video)...Ransik

2001 Power Rangers Time Force (TV Series)...Ransik

2001 Power Rangers Time Force (Video Game)...Ransik (voice)

2001 The Man with No Eyes (Short)...Sab'han

2000 Never Look Back

2000 Starforce...Squad Leader

2000 JAG (TV Series)...Toohey
Boomerang: Part 2 (2000)
Boomerang: Part 1 (2000)

1999 Wasteland Justice...Tarnak

1999 This Is Harry Lehman (Short)...Brady

1998 Misfit Patrol...Captain Cook

1998 Billy Frankenstein...Otto

1997 Kick of Death...Paulie

1997 Vulcan

1997 The Bad Pack...Biker

1997 Conan (TV Series)...Morga

1996 Hell's Paradox (Short)...Ghost Rider

1996 Space Truckers...Mister Cutt

1995 Hard Justice (Video)...Galaxy 500

1994 Manosaurus...Professor Sorenson

1994 Dickwad (Short)...Biker from Hell

1994 Ultimatum...Gerard Richter

1994 2002: The Rape of Eden...Mercenary Soldier

1994 T-Force...Samuel Washington

1994 Stranglehold...Gerald Richter

1994 Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II...Plughead

1992 Fortress...Maddox

1992 Sexual Response (TV Movie)...Philip

1992 The Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys (TV Series)...The Shark Guy
Top Secret (1992)

1990 Sheng zhan feng yun...Hannibal (as Vernon G. Wells)

1990 The Shrimp on the Barbie...Bruce

1990 Crossing the Line...Steve Sinclair

1990 Circuitry Man...Plughead

1989 Circle of Fear...Allan Bainbridge

1989 Enemy Unseen...Steiger (as Vernon G. Wells)

1989 American Eagle...Johnny Burke

1989 Nam Angels...Chard

1985-1989 MacGyver (TV Series)...Paul Donnay / Catlin

1988 What's Happening Now! (TV Series)...Kincaide
Adventures of Kangaroo Kincaide (1988)

1988 The Gamble

1988 T and T (TV Series)...Nigel
Private Eyes (1988)

1988 Sunset...Australian Houseman

1987 Last Man Standing...Roo Marcus

1987 Innerspace...Mr. Igoe

1987 P.I. Private Investigations...Detective North

1986 Coming of Age...Chuck Proby (Donald)

1986 Knight Rider (TV Series)...Wilson
Hills of Fire (1986)

1986 Hunter (TV Series)...Sonny Zajak
War Zone (1986)

1985 The Fall Guy (TV Series)...Croyden
October the 32nd (1985)

1985 Fortress (TV Movie)...Dabby Duck

1985 Commando...Bennett

1985 Weird Science...Lord General

1984 Special Squad (TV Series)
Suzie's War (1984)

1981 Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior...Wez

1979 Prisoner: Cell Block H (TV Series)...Policeman
Episode #1.38 (1979)

1974-1976 Matlock Police (TV Series)...Tommy Neale / Brian Murphy / Chilla Armstrong

1975 Homicide (TV Series)...Const. Fred Mason / Mitchell
The Gladstone Home for Wayward Girls (1975) ... Const. Fred Mason
The Long Weekend (1975) ... Mitchell

1975 Cash and Company (TV Series)...Trooper 9 / Trooper 6
Joe Sent Me (1975) ... Trooper 9
Golden Girl (1975) ... Trooper 6

To see Then & Now pictures of Vernon Wells, visit:
http://www.celebritynooz.com/vernon_wells.aspx


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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--

Lesley Ann Warren - ALIVE
Born: 08/16/1946

M. Emmet Walsh - ALIVE
Born: 03/22/1935

Richard Jaeckel - DEAD (Cancer)
Born: 10/10/1926 Died: 06/14/1997

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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...

1/29

Lars Andreas Larssen, 78, Norwegian actor, Alzheimer's
disease.
Jim Mansfield, 74, Irish businessman.
Ildefonso P. Santos, Jr., Filipino landscape architect.
Tarit Kumar Sett, 84, Indian Olympic cyclist (1952).

1/28
Harry Gamble, 82, American football executive
(Philadelphia Eagles) and head coach (Penn Quakers).
Gennady Grushevoy, 63, ?Belarusian philosopher and
politician.
Dwight Gustafson, 83, American composer and conductor.
Nigel Jenkins, 64, Welsh poet, pancreatic cancer.
Herb Kirsh, 84, American politician, member of the
South Carolina House of Representatives (1978-2010).
Fernand Leduc, 97, Canadian abstract painter, cancer.
Ted Nealon, 84, Irish journalist and politician, TD
for Sligo-Leitrim (1981-1997).
Jorge Obeid, 66, Argentine politician, Governor of
Santa Fe (1995-1999, 2003-2007), pulmonary embolism.
Blas Pinar, 95, Spanish politician, founder of New
Force.
Tom Sherak, 68, American film producer and studio
executive, President of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences (2009-2012), prostate
cancer.
Sue Wallis, 56, American politician, member of the
Wyoming House of Representatives (since 2007).

1/27
Masako Bando, 55, Japanese novelist, winner of the Naoki
Prize (1996).
Edmond Classen, 75, Dutch actor (Flodder 3, Lijmen/Het
Been).
Leen Jansen, 83, Dutch Olympic middleweight boxer
(1952).
Ichiro Nagai, 82, Japanese voice actor (Sazae-san, Space
Battleship Yamato), heart attack.
R. A. Padmanabhan, 97, Indian journalist and historian.
Pete Seeger, 94, American folk singer and songwriter
("Turn! Turn! Turn!", "If I Had a Hammer", "Where Have
All the Flowers Gone?").
Masaaki Tsukada, 74, Japanese voice actor (Bleach, One
Piece).
Epimaco Velasco, 79, Filipino politician, Director of the
NBI (1992-1995).

1/26
Tom Gola, 81, American basketball player (Philadelphia
Warriors) and politician.
Paula Gruden, 92, Australian poet and translator.
Oleg Imrekov, 51, Russian football player and manager.
John Farquhar Munro, 79, Scottish politician, MSP for
Ross, Skye and Inverness West (1999-2011).
Lajos Nemeth, 69, Hungarian football referee.
Tom Nyuma, Sierra Leonean politician and military
officer.
Jose Emilio Pacheco, 74, Mexican poet, essayist and
novelist, winner of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize
(2009), heart attack.
Gino Polidori, 72, American politician, member of the
Michigan House of Representatives (2005-2010),
prostate cancer.
Miguel Romero, 68-69, Spanish politician and activist.
Patrick D. Smith, 87, American author (A Land
Remembered).
Suthin Tharathin, Thai anti-government protest
leader, shot.
Ralph T. Troy, 79, American politician and mortgage
banker, Mayor of Monroe, Louisiana (1972-1976),
cancer.
Raymond Weil, 87, Swiss watchmaker and businessman.

1/25
Bruce Barmes, 84, American baseball player (Washington
Senators).
Arthur Doyle, 69, American jazz musician.
Michael Filerman, 76, American Broadway and television
producer (Knots Landing), cancer.
Heini Halberstam, 88, Czech-born British mathematician.
Kurt Krenn, 77, Austrian Roman Catholic prelate,
Bishop of Sankt Pölten (1991-2004).
Nasser Minachi, 82, Iranian politician.
John Robertson, 79, Canadian journalist.
Milan Ruzic, 58, Croatian footballer.
Emanuel Saldano, 28, Argentine cyclist, national road
race champion (2011), traffic collision.
Karl Slym, 51, British business executive, Managing
Director of Tata Motors (since 2012), self-defenestration.
Dave Strack, 90, American basketball player and coach
(Michigan Wolverines), pneumonia.
Gyula Sax, 62, Hungarian chess player, heart attack.
Pius Tirkey, 85, Indian politician, MLA for Alipurduars
(1977-1996).
Morrie Turner, 90, American cartoonist (Wee Pals).
Dennis Wirgowski, 66, American football player (New
England Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles).

1/24
Shulamit Aloni, 85, Israeli politician, leader of the
Meretz party.
Igor Badamshin, 47, Russian cross-country skier, heart
attack.
Abdelkader El Brazi, 49, Moroccan footballer.
Joseph Kalite, Central African Islamic leader, machete
attack.
Sahal Mahfudz, 76, Indonesian cleric, spiritual leader
of the Nahdlatul Ulama.
Boyd Oxlade, 70, Australian author and screenwriter
(Death in Brunswick), cancer.
Rafael Pineda Ponce, 83, Honduran educator and
politician, kidney failure.

1/23
Ted Bottiger, 81, American politician, Washington State
Senator (1973-1987), State Representative (1965-1972).
Giangiacomo Calligaris, 57, Italian military officer,
Commander of Army Aviation, helicopter crash.
Justin Carmical, 42, American video game critic, actor
and Internet personality (Channel Awesome, That Guy
with the Glasses), suicide by gunshot.
Violetta Ferrari, 83, Hungarian actress.
Yuri Izrael, 83, Russian meteorologist.
Katsuyo Kobayashi, 76, Japanese food critic (Iron Chef),
multiple organ failure.
Ryan Loskarn, American political aide, suicide by
hanging.
Mille Markovic, 52, Yugoslav-born Swedish sex club
owner and boxer, shot.
Lew Massey, 57, American basketball player (Charlotte
49ers).
Riz Ortolani, 87, Italian film composer.
Charlie Osgood, 87, American baseball player (Brooklyn
Dodgers).
Jan Pesman, 82, Dutch Olympic bronze-medalist speed
skater (1960).
Umon Sanyutei, 65, Japanese rakugo comedian, stomach
cancer.
S. Sriskandarajah, 60, Sri Lankan judge and lawyer.
Bela Varady, 60, Hungarian footballer.