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Yep, good ol' Bruce Spense... one of Australia's most recognisible faces...
The man is an icon of Aussie cinema!!! He was "Stork!"

What an absolute load of crap! Don't be ridiculous, that's a completely unrealistic statement. Everyone who's not Australian, ignore this nonsense. We don't have a film industry strong enough to have "icons", and if we did, this guy is certainly not one of them. You must either work in that tiny elitist group that is the Australian film and television industry where he's semi well-respected and only people over 50 would shake his hand at the Logies but nobody else cares about, or you're a suburban couch potato that actually likes watching painfully boring Aussie film and TV. Most ordinary Australians wouldn't know who the F he is if he was sipping a mochaccino in the same cafe.

"One of Australia's most recognizable faces" hahaha what universe are you in? First off, our most recognizable faces are sporting icons, not actors. After sporting icons it's people in the music industry, then people in reality TV programs and radio, followed by anyone but actors, unless they're good-looking and marketable as a sex symbol, in which case you can be assured they're no longer working as actors in Australia unless they've fallen on hard times and need the money. "One of Australia's most unrecognizable faces" would be more accurate.

I'd say 1% of all Australians would recognize Bruce Spencer or whatever his name is, and 90% of that 1% recognition would be from his two roles in American productions filmed here. I only recognized him in The Matrix Revolutions because I recognized him from Dark City, and he was only cast in those films because they were filmed here. Incidentally, the blonde bimbo in Umney's Last Case is "The Woman in Red" from The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded. As I've just pointed out, there's not a big list of actors to choose from here so reoccurring Australian faces in American productions filmed in Oz is inevitable. Most of our recognizable actors work in the US full time, and this is the very reason they're recognizable. And who the F is Stork??

Sorry to break it to you, but the vast majority of Australians take no interest in 99% of Australian cinema, unless they need a sleeping aid. You're in the extremely microscopic minority of Australians that can actually stay awake long enough to sit through another depressing, morbidly bleak Australian film with cliche bogan accents and poor production values.






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