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name: "Angry Anderson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/angry-anderson"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "5 August 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T12:51:02.508386+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Angry Anderson

Actor. Born 5 August 1947 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 August 1947, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_Anderson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q543548, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0026353/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/220829

## Biography

Angry Anderson is an Australian actor and rock singer. He played the character Ironbar in the 1985 film *Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome*.

Born Gary Stephen Anderson on 5 August 1947 in Melbourne, Victoria, he has been the lead vocalist of the hard rock band Rose Tattoo since 1976. In 1993 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his work as a youth advocate. Rose Tattoo were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2006. He has appeared in other screen roles including in the television series *Fat Pizza*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, madmax.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome* (1985), Fi1m 65, as Ironbar — [page](https://film.one/film/mad-max-beyond-thunderdome.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Dumb Criminals: The Movie* (2015), as Angry
- *Dumb Criminals Motorcycle Club* (2015), as Angry
- *Fat Pizza vs Housos* (2014), as Angry
- *Housos vs. Authority* (2012), as Angry the Bikie
- *Housos* (2011), series, as Angry
- *Swift and Shift Couriers* (2008), series, as Aaron "Agro" Smith
- *Spicks and Specks* (2005), series, Actor
- *Finding Joy* (2003), as Kris Quaid
- *Jesus Christ Superstar* (1992), as Herod
- *Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome* (1985), as Ironbar — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/mad-max-beyond-thunderdome.md)
- *At Last... Bullamakanka: The Motion Picture* (1983), Actor
- *Benefit*, as Jon-Jon Gibson

## Gallery

- ![Angry Anderson](https://film.one/media/person/1077864/gallery-0b28906269e4.jpg) Angry Anderson — Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Rose_Tattoo_-_2022216180546_2022-08-04_Wacken_-_Sven_-_1D_X_MK_II_-_1483_-_B70I3374.jpg/1280px-Rose_Tattoo_-_2022216180546_2022-08-04_Wacken_-_Sven_-_1D_X_MK_II_-_1483_-_B70I3374.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- !["Rose Tattoo live @ Enmore Theatre (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/1077864/gallery-d648242a9c9c.jpg) "Rose Tattoo live @ Enmore Theatre (2011) — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/%22Rose_Tattoo_live_%40_Enmore_Theatre_%285660874531%29.jpg/1280px-%22Rose_Tattoo_live_%40_Enmore_Theatre_%285660874531%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rose Tattoo during Wacken Open Air at The Holy Wacken Land, Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany on 2019-07-31, Photo: Sven Mandel](https://film.one/media/person/1077864/gallery-72f0c15b757a.jpg) Rose Tattoo during Wacken Open Air at The Holy Wacken Land, Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany on 2019-07-31, Photo: Sven Mandel — Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Rose_Tattoo_-_2019212223958_2019-07-31_Wacken_-_0522_-_AK8I6296.jpg/1280px-Rose_Tattoo_-_2019212223958_2019-07-31_Wacken_-_0522_-_AK8I6296.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rose Tattoo during Wacken Open Air at The Holy Wacken Land, Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany on 2019-07-31, Photo: Sven Mandel](https://film.one/media/person/1077864/gallery-5802d6e04336.jpg) Rose Tattoo during Wacken Open Air at The Holy Wacken Land, Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany on 2019-07-31, Photo: Sven Mandel — Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Rose_Tattoo_-_2019212224011_2019-07-31_Wacken_-_0542_-_AK8I6316.jpg/1280px-Rose_Tattoo_-_2019212224011_2019-07-31_Wacken_-_0542_-_AK8I6316.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rose Tattoo during Wacken Open Air at The Holy Wacken Land, Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany on 2019-07-31, Photo: Sven Mandel](https://film.one/media/person/1077864/gallery-bd81c59f8ecc.jpg) Rose Tattoo during Wacken Open Air at The Holy Wacken Land, Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany on 2019-07-31, Photo: Sven Mandel — Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Rose_Tattoo_-_2019212224026_2019-07-31_Wacken_-_0564_-_AK8I6338.jpg/1280px-Rose_Tattoo_-_2019212224026_2019-07-31_Wacken_-_0564_-_AK8I6338.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rose Tattoo during Wacken Open Air at The Holy Wacken Land, Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany on 2019-07-31, Photo: Sven Mandel](https://film.one/media/person/1077864/gallery-3b2d2abc9752.jpg) Rose Tattoo during Wacken Open Air at The Holy Wacken Land, Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany on 2019-07-31, Photo: Sven Mandel — Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Rose_Tattoo_-_2019212224124_2019-07-31_Wacken_-_0577_-_AK8I6351.jpg/1280px-Rose_Tattoo_-_2019212224124_2019-07-31_Wacken_-_0577_-_AK8I6351.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Member of the Order of Australia 1993: Member of the Order of Australia (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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