Brian James (actor)
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Brian James (born 1918 in Victoria, Australia) is an actor, best remembered for his roles on television.
He began his TV career in the late 1950s as Dr. Geoffrey Thompson in the early medical drama Emergency. He then played Ian Bennett in Bellbird, followed by the role of George Tippett in the soap opera Skyways - a character he reprised for the ill-fated series Holiday Island in 1981.
He is probably best known to international audiences for his part in the cult soap opera Prisoner as officer and later prison handyman Stan Dobson. He also appeared as John Worthington in Neighbours in the late 1980s.
On film, he played screen father to Meryl Streep in A Cry in the Dark, the 1988 movie about the Lindy Chamberlain court case.
