Brian Downey

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Brian Downey born 31 October 1944 in Newfoundland Canada is a Canadian actor perhaps bestknown for his portrayal of Stanley Tweedle in the sciencefiction television series Lexx Downey is a character actor who has appeared in various films and guest starring roles on TV including a recurring role on Millennium His first film role was in a 1986 Andy Jones film called The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood which features the entire cast of CODCO Downey has enjoyed a long professional relationship with Lexx creator Paul Donovan dating back at least to 1988 when Donovan cast Downey in the time travel adventure film Normans Awesome Experience Downey appeared as Cardinal Juan de Mella in Donovans upcoming medieval TV thriller The Conclave Downey has also worked with Jessica Lange JoBeth Williams Sam Rockwell and directors such as Joe Sargent He won the 2010 only acting award at the 2010 Atlantic Film Festival for his role in Whirligig directed by Chaz Thorne with whom he has worked on 2 previous features He played the evil gang leader The Drake who runs the town in the feature film Hobo with a Shotgun starring Rutger Hauer and directed by Jason Eisener Downey is also a musician and writer Before being recruited as an actor he spent many years as a musician as a bass player guitarist and blues harmonica player He has been a writer for many stage plays and has led many script writing workshops His first full length stage play Peters Other War was produced during the summer of 2009 Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Downey licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia