Bruce Payne
Date of birth: 1958-11-22
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Bruce Martyn Payne
Biography
Bruce Martyn Payne (born 22 November 1958) is an English actor and producer. Though better known for his villainous roles, Bruce Payne has played characters across the spectrum. His notable villainous roles include Charles Rane in Passenger 57, Jacob Kell in Highlander: Endgame and Damodar in Dungeons & Dragons and Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God. His notable heroic roles include Frankie in Kounterfeit, Dr. Burton in Silence Like Glass and Major Baker in Britannic. His notable comic roles include Yellow in Keen Eddie, Dogger in Solarbabies, and the Devil in Switch. Payne has received many plaudits for his acting. A reviewer in Cosmopolitan once asserted that "saying that Payne is a good actor is like saying Fred Astaire is a good dancer." Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce Payne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Passenger 57
1992-11-06
Airline security specialist John Cutter, finally returning to the job after his wife's death, finds
Never Say Never Mind
2003-08-26
NEVER SAY...NEVER MIND, the SWEDISH BIKINI TEAM find themselves in London at BUCKINGHAM PALACE recei
Dungeons & Dragons
2000-12-08
The Empire of Izmer is a divided land: elite magicians called “mages” rule while lowly commoners are
Highlander: Endgame
2000-09-01
Immortals Connor and Duncan Macleod join forces against a man from Connor's distant past in the high
Steal
2002-05-08
An entrepreneurial criminal, Slim (Dorff) is as smart as they come. Cocky and confident, he assemble
Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God
2005-09-01
Due to a curse from his former master Profion, Damodar survived his death by Ridley Freeborn as an u
Warlock III: The End of Innocence
1999-10-12
A college student unexpectedly finds that she has inherited a derelict house. Accompanied by a group
Operation Julie
1985-01-02
A TV movie directed by Bob Mahoney. Based on the book by Dick Lee & Colin Pratt it tells the true st
Necronomicon
1993-11-01
H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segmen
Ripper: Letter from Hell
2001-08-08
A massacre survivor studies serial killers under a famous expert, but her classmates soon start dyin
Solarbabies
1986-11-26
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly
Absolute Beginners
1986-04-04
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old pho
Prowl
2010-09-04
Amber dreams of escaping her small town existence and persuades her friends to accompany her to find
Sweepers
1998-12-02
Dolph Lundgren is Christian Erickson, a leading demolition expert trained to disarm mine fields in a
One Point O
2004-03-16
Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts
Hellborn
2003-09-26
James Bishop is a young psychology resident, excited about his new job at St. Andrews Mental Hospita
Privates on Parade
1983-03-18
It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And D
No Contest II
1996-11-22
Sharon Bell is back, this time she must stop a terrorist plot to smuggle Nazi nerve gas.
The Apocalypse
2004-12-03
While Emperor Domitian persecutes the Christians, the aged apostle John has prophetic visions.
Full Eclipse
1993-11-27
The LA police department have a special team of officers with a talent for reducing big-time crime.
Messages
2007-06-14
In England, the American pathologist Dr. Richard Murray still grieves the death of his wife Carol ei
Britannic
2000-01-10
It was the sister ship of the infamous Titanic... and its final destiny was the same. Experience the
One Tough Bastard
1996-07-26
When a man's wife and family are murdered, he plots revenge only to find out that the killer is unde
Aurora: Operation Intercept
1995-01-01
There have been two mysterious plane crashes in only 48 hours. The aircraft suddenly lose control an
Kounterfeit
1996-11-15
Flush with $3 million in counterfeit bills, a pair of small-time criminals hope to make the big time
Getaway
2013-08-29
Former race car driver Brent Magna is pitted against the clock. Desperately trying to save the life
Asylum
2013-09-30
A veteran hostage negotiator's next call leads him to an overrun insane asylum. He soon finds that d
Carmen's Kiss
2010-01-01
The tragic story of Joe, a Police Sargeant in London who falls for Carmen a feisty gypsy girl who is
The Cisco Kid
1994-02-06
This update of the 1950 western TV series changes Cisco and Pancho from wandering heroes of the old
Vendetta
2013-11-08
Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents while
Victor Young Perez
2013-11-20
Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transp
For Queen & Country
1988-05-17
A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.
The Fruit Machine
1988-11-04
Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his cam
Silence Like Glass
1989-07-06
True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.
Pyrates
1991-12-18
As soon as they meet Ari and Sam get into a pretty passionate - and combustible - relationship. Inde
Tales of the Supernatural
2014-10-17
This film consists of six supernatural tales linked together by a demon that is intent on collecting
Age Of Kill
2015-06-15
A black ops sniper is blackmailed by a psychotic international terrorist into killing 6 unrelated pe
Ravager
1997-09-06
A small passenger spaceship is forced to make a crash landing somewhere on a desolate territory on E
Oxford Blues
1984-08-24
A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England,
Birth of a Nation
1983-06-19
A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just b
Breakdown
2016-01-15
A professional contract killer, haunted by visions of his violent past, spirals out of control. His
Re-Kill
2015-10-16
Five years after a zombie outbreak, the men and women of R-Division hunt down and destroy the undead
Disorientated
A man struggling with his identity travels to Spain as a tutor and falls in love with one of his stu
The Antwerp Dolls
2015-03-21
A ruthless businessman's payoff to the Belgian mafia is intercepted by his revenge-seeking former pr
Shopping
2016-06-19
A young man meets the worn voice of a fading city under the dim lights of a London sex shop.
The Rizen
2017-05-06
The year is 1955. NATO and the Allied Forces have been conducting secret, occult experiments in a bi
Ripper
2016-01-13
London , 1888 and the Ripper murders are gripping the country. The people of Whitechapel are afraid
Smart Money
1986-10-26
Leon, a hacker convicted for a crime he did not commit, escapes from detention centre following the
London Unplugged
2018-10-05
A portmanteau exploration of disparate characters scattered across London, many of whose lives inter
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985-11-25
Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall
Howling VI: The Freaks
1991-04-18
A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman ex
Caprice
1986-06-15
A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film
Creators: The Past
2020-10-08
Where do we come from and where do we go ? The eternal question of humanity which religions have tri
The Keep
1983-12-16
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Rom
Rendel: Cycle of Revenge
2024-06-21
When ‘Smiley’ takes over the Vala Drug Corporation, a masked vigilante, Rendel, will avenge the murd
Pit Stop
2020-07-14
A rave in a deserted warehouse, the perfect place to introduce a NEW designer drug - right? Two youn
Switch
1991-05-10
Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he mak
Greystone Park
2012-09-06
In October 2009, the filmmakers went into an abandoned psychiatric hospital to explore the 'haunted'
Nemesis
2021-03-29
An underworld kingpin's past catches up with him when he returns to London, igniting an explosive ch
Brothel
2008-02-27
In a once thriving Arizona mining town, a woman starts renovating an abandoned brothel and meets the
Give Them Wings
2021-11-20
'Give Them Wings' is based on the true story of severely disabled football fan Paul Hodgson.
The Stoic
2024-10-18
A group of mercenary leaders convene in a country retreat after pulling off a drug raid. Things take
The Bell-Run
1988-10-02
Deep-sea diving is well paid and glamorous. But the strain is huge, living in a tiny compression cha