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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 1, 1951
Died
November 20, 2016
Place of Birth
Tully, Queensland, Australia
Russell Kiefel
0.5 Popularity
Biography
Russell John Kiefel (1951 – 20 November 2016) was an Australian stage, film and television actor. After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Kiefel started his screen acting career with a role in the 1977 feature film The Singer and the Dancer. He followed this with roles in Breaker Morant (1980), Twelfth Night (1986), Call Me Mr. Brown (1990) and television film The Leaving of Liverpool (1992). Kiefel appeared in several television dramas, including Home and Away, Fireflies and Stingers. He starred in an episode of Twisted Tales in 1998. Among his various guest appearances were episodes of Wildside, Blue Heelers and Something in the Air. In 2008, Kiefel played Lloyd Ross in Infamous Victory: Ben Chifley's Battle for Coal. He joined the cast of Neighbours in the recurring role of Russell Brennan in 2015.
Known For
7.0
Sheriff De Bont
Childhood's End
2015
6.4
Mick
Son of a Gun
2014
3.4
Malcolm McCauley
Schapelle
2014
7.5
Hugh Goodman
Tricky Business
2012
4.9
John Abernethy
A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne
2011
6.3
Mel Mal
Underbelly
2008
0.0
Chandon Pictures
2007
6.0
Kesby
Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback
2007
7.8
Lionel Travers
headLand
2005
0.0
Sharpie
Fireflies
2004
Credits
Childhood's End
as Sheriff De Bont
2015
7.0
Son of a Gun
as Mick
2014
6.4
Schapelle
as Malcolm McCauley
2014
3.4
Tricky Business
as Hugh Goodman
2012
7.5
A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne
as John Abernethy
2011
4.9
Underbelly
as Mel Mal
2008
6.3
Chandon Pictures
2007
0.0
Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback
as Kesby
2007
6.0
headLand
as Lionel Travers
2005
7.8
Fireflies
as Sharpie
2004
0.0
Queen of the Damned
as Fire Marshall
2002
6.1
McLeod's Daughters
as Eric Weatherdon
2001
7.2
Dogwatch
as Palmer
1999
0.0
A Difficult Woman
as Prime Minister
1998
4.2
Radiance
as Father Doyle
1998
5.6
Big Sky
as Roberts
1997
8.0
Big Sky
as Detective 1
1997
8.0
Children of the Revolution
as Barry Rogers
1996
5.5
Water Rats
as Lewis West
1996
6.0
No Escape
as Iceman
1994
6.3
Escape from Jupiter
as Gilbert
1994
4.2
Heartbreak High
as Norm Rivers
1994
6.9
Blue Heelers
1993
6.2
Police Rescue
as Pellegrini
1991
6.4
Call Me Mr. Brown
as Ray Poynting
1985
5.0
Breaker Morant
as Christiaan Botha
1980
7.1
The Singer and the Dancer
as Pete
1977
8.5