Ralph William John Brown (born 18 June 1957) is an English actor and writer, known for playing Danny the drug dealer in Withnail and I, the security guard Aaron (a.k.a. "85") in Alien 3, DJ Bob Silver in The Boat That Rocked aka Pirate Radio, super-roadie Del Preston in Wayne's World 2, the pilot Ric Olié in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and Henry Clinton in Turn: Washington's Spies. He won The Samuel Beckett Award for his first play Sanctuary written for Joint Stock Theatre Company in 1987, and the Raindance and Sapporo Film Festival awards for his first screenplay for the British film New Year's Day in 2001.

Filmography

• American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez — Tremaine
• Sexy Beast — Roger Riley
• 2024War Game — Lieutenant General Roger Simms
• 2023Genie — Sorcerer
• Leverage: Redemption — Ramsey
• 2019Gemini Man — Del Patterson
• Godfather of Harlem — President Lyndon Johnson
• 2018Final Score — Steed
• New Amsterdam — Sid Chiltern
• Genius — Max Planck
• 2016Jackie — Dave Powers
• 2016Reg — Bob Clay
• 2015Hard Tide — Gaz
• Marvel's Agent Carter — Dr. Ivchenko
• Babylon — Deputy Mayor Grant Delgado
• Legends — Terrence Graves
• TURN: Washington's Spies — General Henry Clinton
• The Assets — Wallace Austin
• 2014The Seventeenth Kind — Herbert
• 2014Walking with the Enemy — Grudez
• 2013All Things To All Men — McDeer
• 2013Jack the Giant Slayer — General Entin
• 2013Stoker — Sheriff Howard
• The Blacklist — Roger Hobbs
• The Mimic — Denholm, Neil's Dad
• Dallas — Justice of the Peace
• 2012Dark Tide — Brady
• Elementary — Tim Sherrington
• 2012I, Anna — George Stone
• Pramface — Terry
• The Poison Tree — Max Capel
• 2012Tower Block — Neville
• Death in Paradise — Charlie Blake
• 2011Killing Bono — Leo
• Him & Her — Nigel
• 2010Huge — Neil
• Jack Taylor — Sutton
• 2010Mission London — Detective Collway
• 2010SUS — D.S. Karn
• 2010The Kid — Gordon Peters
• Law & Order: UK — DS Darren Grady
• 2009The Boat That Rocked — Bob
• 2008Caught in the Act — Joep Schut
• Inspector George Gently — Melvyn Rattigan
• 2007Flood — Neil
• Meadowlands — Wintersgill
• Nearly Famous — Dominic Soloman
• 2007Straightheads — Jamie
• 2007The Contractor — Jeremy Collins
• Life on Mars — Frank Morgan
• Modern Toss — Various
• 2006Puritan — Mickey Conway
• Rich Hall's Cattle Drive — Truesdale
• 2005Big Dippers — Dave
• Cold Blood — Bob Massum
• 2005Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist — Sergeant Major
• 2005Stoned — Gysin
• 2004Exorcist: The Beginning — Sergeant Major
• Lawless — Phil Howell
• New Tricks — Edward Monroe
• Nighty Night — Jacques
• 2003I'll Be There — Digger
• A Tribute to the Likely Lads — Gary
• Julius Caesar — Xanthus
• Lenny Blue — Barry Hindes
• NCS: Manhunt — Ray du Barriatte
• Spooks — Paul Seymour
• 2002The Final Curtain — Timothy
• 2001Last Run — Simon
• 2001Mean Machine — Burton
• 2001New Year's Day — Mr. Diamond, Writer
• The Agency — Andrei Kachan
• Waking the Dead — Mike Coleman
• Lock, Stock... — Miami Vice
• Cleopatra — Guevarius
• Extremely Dangerous — Joe Connor
• 1999Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace — Ric Olié
• The Grimleys — Frankie Fate
• The Last Train — Jonathan Geddes
• A Respectable Trade — Dr. Hadley
• 1998Up 'n' Under — Phil
• 1997Amistad — Lieutenant Gedney
• Ivanhoe — Prince John
• Jonathan Creek — Roy Pilgrim
• Lexx — Duke
• 1997The Place of the Dead — Sgt Bob Mann
• Cold Lazarus — Peter Beasley
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Sam Connon
• Karaoke — Peter Beasley
• 1994Don't Get Me Started — Larry Swift
• 1994Requiem Apache — Mick
• Peak Practice — Stephen Westwood
• 1993Undercover Blues — Leamington
• 1993Wayne's World 2 — Del Preston
• A Touch of Frost — Capt. Carlisle
• 1992Alien³ — Aaron
• Between the Lines — D.A.C. John Convey
• 1992The Crying Game — Dave
• 1991Impromptu — Eugene Delacroix
• 1991The Pope Must Die — Doctor
• 1990A Curious Suicide — Detective Inspector Rollason
• Chillers — DI Rollason
• 1990Diamond Skulls — Jack
• 4 Play — Archie Heckle
• Rules of Engagement — Mick Rendall
• 1989Scandal — Paul Mann
• 1988Buster — Ronny Biggs
• Christabel — Lange
• 1988Coppers — Keating
• 1988The Black and Blue Lamp — Insp. Drury
• 1987Withnail & I — Danny
• 1986London's Burning: The Movie — Policeman
• ScreenPlay — Insp. Drury
• 1985Black Arrow — Yardley
• The Bill — P.C. Muswell
• 1984The Hit — Second Man
• 1982The Merry Wives of Windsor — John
• Van der Valk — Inspector Rep
• Coronation Street — Barney
• Bjorn of the Dead — Eddie

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2024Scala!!! — Self
• 2024Stand or Fall: The Remarkable Rise of Brighton and Hove Albion — Self
• 2019An Accidental Studio — Self
• 2008Schrader's Exorcism — Self
• 2003Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' — Self (archive footage)
• 2001Alien Evolution — Self / 'Aaron'
• 1999Withnail and Us — Self
• 1990Scala — Self