Vernon George Wells (born 31 December 1945) is an Australian film and television actor who has built his career around action-type films, most often cast as a villain. He began appearing on Australian television shows in the mid-1970s, such as Homicide and Matlock Police and All The Rivers Run. He is best known to international audiences for his role of "Wez", in the 1981 science fiction action film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. After Mad Max 2, Wells began appearing in Hollywood films, such as the military action film Commando (1985) (as Bennett), which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the science fiction comedy Innerspace (1987), which starred Martin Short, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. In the 2000s, Wells acted in the television series Power Rangers: Time Force portraying the series' main villain 'Ransik'. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vernon Wells(actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Censor Addiction — Wizard
• 2026Cursed Waters — Prosecutor
• 2026Days of Sodom: A Crow Fan Film — Mayor Minos
• 2026Mothman Vs Bigfoot — Detective Thomas
• 2026Valley of the Horntak — Gordon
• 2025A Reluctant Heart — Stuart Knapp
• 2025Clutch — Fuentes
• 2025Vanished — Greg McBride
• 2025We Meet Again — Stone
• 2024Apex Predators 2: The Spawning — Bartender Wells
• 2024Bring Me A Skin For Dancing In — Richard Daniels
• 2024Gladiators — Avitus
• 2024Harvest — Jim Mansfield
• 2024Professor Kimmer's Initiation — Cypress
• 2024Realm of Shadows — Cypress
• 2024Road Wars: Max Fury — Shane McIntosh
• 2024The Beast Inside — Father Geoffrey
• 2024The Blue-Eyed Boy and Mister Death — George
• 2024The Charisma Killers — The Old Man
• 2024The Dead Rose — Cypress
• 2023Blood and Snow — The Professor
• 2023End of Loyalty — Rooker
• 2023Ghost — Jeremiah
• 2023Heartland Harmony — Lemmy LaRoux
• 2023I Can — Doctor Wells
• 2023Murder Syndicate — Roddy
• 2023Root — Scott
• 2023The Price We Pay — The Doctor
• 2023Transmission — Frank Tadross Roth
• 2022Amber Road — Sheriff Taylor
• 2022American Bigfoot — Truman Shaw
• 2022Forbearance — Dr. George Ross
• 2022Frost — Grant
• 2022Jack Be Nimble — Jack
• 2022Memoirs of a Fighter — Pastor
• 2022No Name and Dynamite — Black Jack Bennett
• 2022Of the Devil — Father Bennet
• 2022Sally Floss: Digital Detective — Papa, Associate Producer
• 2022Shadows — Cliff, Co-Producer
• 2022Showdown in Yesteryear — Orson Kane
• 2022Soul Cage — The Persuader
• 2022Tales from the Other Side — William
• 2022The Christmas Tapes — Santa, Producer
• 2022The Electric Man — Doogie
• 2022Thor: God of Thunder — Odin
• 2022Werewolf Cabal — Henry Sullivan
• 2021Alien Danger 2! With Raven Van Slender — The Shadow Knight
• 2021Bearry — Detective Seahorn
• 2021Christmas Collision — Ronan
• 2021Kringle Time — Herb
• 2021Red Snow — Julius King
• 2021Under the Palm Tree — Det. Scott
• 20207th Revelation — Gil Oldman Jr.
• 2020Await the Dawn — Zed
• 2020Bird — Fred
• 2020Camp Twilight — Detective Bennett
• 2020Charlie's Christmas Wish — Hank Wentworth
• 2020Debt Collectors — Cyrus Skinner
• 2020Emerald Run — Dodson
• 2020Fear of the Woods — Father
• 2020Kill Giggles — Malcolm Fossor / Giggles
• 2020No Chance — Barrett Transformed
• 2020Social Distance — Gil Oldman Jr.
• 2019Crossbreed — Murphy
• 2019The Silent Natural — Sarah's Father
• 2018Death House — Nela
• 2018Glass Jaw — Happy
• 2018Hide and Go Seek — Bill
• 2018Impact Event — Ed
• 2018Lilith — Phillip
• 2018Loss Prevention — CEO Reginald Bachman, Executive Producer
• 2018The City of Gold — The Inquisitor, Producer
• 2018Trouble Is My Business — Detective Barry Tate
• 2017Alien Hunger — Sheriff Tom Baker
• 2017Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Mr. Enfield
• 2017Landfall — Wexler
• 2016? (Question-mark) — Willkins
• 2016Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper — Walsh
• 2016Rum Runners — Louie
• 2016The Horde — Earl
• 2016The Perfect Weapon — The Interrogator
• 2016The Sector — Shamrock
• 2016Timber the Treasure Dog — Wolf (voice)
• 2016Transmutation: Deep Water Horizon — Robert
• 2016Western X — The General
• 2015Caesar and Otto's Paranormal Halloween — Guy Hunsinger
• 2015Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs — Marcus
• 2015Jurassic City — Agent LaFranco
• 2015No Solicitors — Sam
• 2014Relentless Justice — Jason Macendale
• 2014Throwback — Detective McNab
• 2013Black Asylum — Sheriff
• 2013Jurassic Attack — Angent Grimaldi
• 2013Like a Bat Outta Hell — Simson
• 2012100,000 Zombie Heads — Lubhoc
• 2012The Lackey — Mr. Dechlan
• 2010Shadows in Paradise — General Ruth
• 2010The Dead Undead — Raleigh
• 2010The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! — Network Head (voice)
• 2010Westbrick Murders — Max
• 2010World's End — Corvin
• 2009Charlie Valentine — Broad
• 2009Green Street Hooligans 2 — Tankersley Governor
• 2009Silent Night, Zombie Night — Paul Irwin
• 2009Someone's Knocking at the Door — Dr. Tolstoy
• 2009The Butcher — 1970's IRA Commander
• 2008Hollywood Confidential — Lt. Stone
• 2008Tru Loved — Coach Wesley
• 2007ReVamped — Wes
• 2006Blood Ranch — Shotgun
• 2006Curse of Pirate Death — Vernon, Associate Producer
• 2006Saurian — Alester Carvel
• 2006The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Dr. Dennis Lanyon
• 2006Vagabond — Ivan
• 2005Meet Me in Miami — Mr. Abbott
• 2004King of the Ants — Beckett
• 2003Devil's Knight — Frank
• 2003Looney Tunes: Back in Action — Acme VP, Child Labor
• 2002Curse of the Forty-Niner — Jeremiah Stone
• 2002Power Rangers Time Force: Dawn of Destiny — Ransik
• 2002Power Rangers Time Force: The End of Time — Ransik
• 2001Beneath Loch Ness — Constable
• 2001Power Rangers Time Force: Force from the Future — Ransik
• 2001Power Rangers Time Force: Quantum Ranger - Clash for Control — Ransik
• 2001The Education of a Vampire — Captain Andrew Collins
• 2000Never Look Back — Nick
• 2000Starforce — Squad Leader
• 1999Wasteland Justice — Tarnak
• 1998Billy Frankenstein — Otto
• 1997Conan — Morga
• 1997Kick of Death — Paulie
• 1997The Bad Pack — Biker
• 1997Vulcan — Greg Mitchum
• 1996Misfit Patrol — Captain Cook
• 1996Space Truckers — Mister Cutt
• 1995Hard Justice — Galaxy 500
• JAG — Toohey
• 19942002: The Rape of Eden — Mercenary Soldier
• 1994Manosaurus — Professor Sorenson
• 1994Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II — Plughead
• 1994Stranglehold — Gerald Richter
• 1994T-Force — Samuel Washington
• 1994Ultimatum — Gerard
• Power Rangers — Ransik
• 1992Fortress — Maddox
• 1992Sexual Response — Philip
• 1990Circuitry Man — Plughead
• 1990Crossing the Line — Steve Sinclair
• 1990The Shrimp on the Barbie — Bruce
• 1990Undeclared War — Hannibal
• 1989American Eagle — Johnny Burke
• 1989Circle of Fear — Allan Bainbridge
• 1989Enemy Unseen — Steiger
• 1989Nam Angels — Chard
• 1988Sunset — Australian Houseman
• 1988The Gamble — First Brother Podestà
• 1987Innerspace — Mr. Igoe
• 1987Last Man Standing — Roo Marcus
• 1987P.I. Private Investigations — Detective North
• 1985Commando — Bennett
• 1985Fortress — Dabby Duck
• MacGyver — Catlin, Paul Donnay
• 1985Weird Science — Lord General
• Hunter — Sonny Zajak
• Knight Rider — Wilson
• 1981Mad Max 2 — Wez
• Alien Horde — Senator Latta
• Area 5150 — Rocco
• Cheer Bloody Murder — Yanny
• Escape from Paradise — Gus
• Heavy Weapon — Cypress
• Island in the Stars — Argentum, Producer
• LeapFrog — General Irving
• Survive the End — The President
• The Damnation — The Major (voice)
• Wine Thief — Winston T Graham

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2022In Search of Tomorrow — Self - Interviewee
• 2019Bigfoot Down Under — Self
• 2019In Search of the Last Action Heroes — Self
• 2016Road War: The Making of 'The Road Warrior' — Self
• 2015Horror Icon: Inside Michael's Mask with Tony Moran — Self
• Cinema Insomnia — Self