Shane Briant is best known for his roles in four Hammer Films productions; Demons of the Mind, Straight on Till Morning, Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter, and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell.
11 Facts About Shane Briant
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Shane Briant resided in Sydney, Australia with his wife Wendy.
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Shane Briant was nominated for the 'Best Newcomer' award by the London theatre critics when he played one of the leads in Children of the Wolf, with Sheelagh Cullen and Yvonne Mitchell at London's Apollo Theatre.
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Shane Briant appeared in television series such as Van der Valk, The Sweeney, and Jack Gold's The Naked Civil Servant with John Hurt.
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Since the early 1980s, much of Shane Briant's acting work was in Australian and New Zealand films and television.
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Shane Briant portrayed the governor of Bombay in Roland Joffe's epic drama Singularity.
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Shane Briant had seven novels published in Australia and one in the United States.
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Shane Briant's American released novel, Worst Nightmares was published in hardback by Vanguard Press in 2009; a mass market edition was published in 2010.
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Shane Briant finished the sequel on 3 March 2011, The Dreamhealer.
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Shane Briant had written an autobiography titled Always the Bad Guy which is only available online at Amazon.
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Shane Briant had an exhibition of his art work at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney.