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Adam Brown (born 29 May 1980) is an English actor and comedian. He is best known for playing the dwarf Ori in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy and Cremble in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Life and stage career He studied at the John O'Gaunt Community Technology College in his birthplace, Hungerford, Berkshire. Following his time at John O'Gaunt, he trained in Performing Arts at Middlesex University, London, where he met Clare Plested and helped co-found the British comedy theatre troupe Plested and Brown. He wrote and performed in all seven of their shows: Carol Smillie Trashed my Room, The Reconditioned Wife Show, Flamingo Flamingo Flamingo, Hot Pursuit, Minor Spectacular, Health & Stacey and The Perfect Wife Roadshow. A regular at the Edinburgh Festival he toured with his company across the UK as well as performances in Armenia, South Korea and New Zealand. With the rest of the Plested and Brown team (Amanda Wilsher and Clare Plested) he has worked with David Sant (Peepolykus), Phelim McDermott (Improbable), Cal McCrystal (The Mighty Boosh) and Toby Wilsher (ex-Trestle). Film and television career Brown plays the dwarf Ori in the film series based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. The films marked his first film appearance. Commenting on Brown's casting, director Peter Jackson was quoted as saying, "Adam is a wonderfully expressive actor and has a unique screen presence. I look forward to seeing him bring Ori to life." Personal life Brown is openly gay and lives in Brighton. Stage work Filmography Television Film Video games References External links Adam Brown at IMDb. Discover the Adam Brown popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Adam Brown books.

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  • Wycliffe and the Beales synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe and the Beales

    W.J. Burley

    A mysterious death ... an eccentric family living on the edge of Dartmoor ... And Chief Superintendent Wycliffe has one of his most complex cases to date.The Cornish Detective seri...

  • Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin

    W.J. Burley

    Wycliffe investigates the disappearance of a young girl and becomes involved in a major criminal investigation . . .Chief Superintendent Wycliffe doubted whether he would enjoy hi...

  • Right Kind of Wrong synopsis, comments

    Right Kind of Wrong

    Amy C. Edmondson

    Winner of the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering researcher o...

  • 34 Patients synopsis, comments

    34 Patients

    Tom Templeton

    Discover the profound and moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS'Wonderful insightful and compassionate' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Cau...

  • The Heathrow Doctor synopsis, comments

    The Heathrow Doctor

    Dr Stephanie Green

    An exhilarating insight into the life of a doctor at Heathrow Airport, where the truth is often stranger than fiction.For over a decade, Stephanie Green was a doctor oncall for one...

  • Leading Without Authority synopsis, comments

    Leading Without Authority

    Keith Ferrazzi & Noel Weyrich

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never Eat Alone redefines collaboration with a radical new workplace operating system in which leadership no longer demands an offi...

  • Wycliffe and the Dead Flautist synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe and the Dead Flautist

    W.J. Burley

    Classic crime featuring the everpopular Chief Superintendent Wycliffe 'Another must for collectors' Sunday Times.On the peaceful and secluded estate of Lord and Lady Bottrell, th...

  • Wycliffe And The Guild Of Nine synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe And The Guild Of Nine

    W.J. Burley

    A murder at an artists' colony but not everyone wants Chief Superintendent Wycliffe to investigate . . .The artists' colony is at the site of a disused mine working on the moor we...

  • Wycliffe and the Pea Green Boat synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe and the Pea Green Boat

    W.J. Burley

    Wycliffe tackles a case which reaches back down the generations ...When Cedric Tremain is charged with murdering his father by boobytrapping his fishing boat, all the locals are ag...

  • How to Live Your Best Life synopsis, comments

    How to Live Your Best Life

    Maria Hatzistefanis

    It's time to reset, adjust and take the power back.Having spent over 20 years building her hugely successful beauty empire, Maria Hatzistefanis managed to achieve all her childhood...

  • Wycliffe and Death in Stanley Street synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe and Death in Stanley Street

    W.J. Burley

    A young girl is found dead in a house on Stanley Street... but it's just the start of a complex puzzle which Wycliffe must unravel.A dubious culdesac just off the busy main road in...

  • Wycliffe and the Three Toed Pussy synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe and the Three Toed Pussy

    W.J. Burley

    A case involving a dead woman with a deformed foot and a mysterious past requires all Superintendent Wycliffe's investigative skills.The peace of the village of Kergwyns in Cornwal...

  • The Prosecutor synopsis, comments

    The Prosecutor

    Nazir Afzal

    The outsider who transformed our justice systemNazir Afzal knows a thing or two about justice. As a Chief Prosecutor, it was his job to make sure the most complex, violent and harr...

  • Fearless synopsis, comments

    Fearless

    Eric Blehm

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  ECPA BESTSELLER, GOLD AWARDOver 500,000 copies sold! Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of its most legen...

  • The Choice synopsis, comments

    The Choice

    Edith Eva Eger

    A New York Times Bestseller“I’ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger’s story…The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability t...

  • A History of Scotland synopsis, comments

    A History of Scotland

    Bruce Lenman & J.L. Mackie

    A history that is equally entertaining and enlightening, illustrating all of the changes of power and intricacies that are necessary to understand the interrelation between England...

  • Money and Love synopsis, comments

    Money and Love

    Myra Strober & Abby Davisson

    MONEY & LOVE: An Intelligent Roadmap for Life’s Biggest Decisions is a guide for navigating life’s most consequential and daunting decisions using researchbased insig...

  • Wycliffe And The Redhead synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe And The Redhead

    W.J. Burley

    The Cornish Detective seriesThe discovery of a body in a quarry creates a baffling case for Detective Superintendent Wycliffe'Firstclass, oldtime, hyperingenious whodunit' OBSERVER...

  • The Sixth Day synopsis, comments

    The Sixth Day

    Catherine Coulter

    Special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine take on a criminal mastermind in the next captivating thriller in the New York Times bestselling A Brit in the FBI series. “Coul...

  • Wycliffe and the Four Jacks synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe and the Four Jacks

    W.J. Burley

    A murder committed in the night of dead. It's all a game for Detective Wycliffe to solve in a puzzling case.Writer David Cleeve lived exactly the way a bestselling novelist should ...

  • Seek synopsis, comments

    Seek

    Scott Shigeoka

    Maximize your potential for connection, healing, and personal growth with this “timely bridge for our divided world.” (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of ...

  • Human Happiness synopsis, comments

    Human Happiness

    Blaise Pascal

    Created by the seventeenthcentury philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find sati...

  • The Joslin Guide to Diabetes synopsis, comments

    The Joslin Guide to Diabetes

    Richard S. Beaser

    An indispensable, uptodate resource for managing your diabetes from the global leader in diabetes research, care, and education. Finding out that you have diabetes immediately rais...

  • Wycliffe and the School Bullies synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe and the School Bullies

    W.J. Burley

    Bullying and persecution among a group of schoolgirls leads to violent retribution and a race against time for Wycliffe.Two very different young women have been murdered within the...

  • The Girls Inside synopsis, comments

    The Girls Inside

    NJ Mackay

    A gripping, compelling psychological thriller about a cult, a fire, and the dark secrets that four young girls have carried with them but can no longer keep buried...Blue grew up i...

  • Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue

    W.J. Burley

    A mysterious death in the Cornish art world and a murder investigation for Chief Superintendent Wycliffe...When Edwin Garland dies of a heart attack, no one outside the expectant ...

  • Adam S. Mills and Others, Plaintiffs in Error v. William G. Brown and Others synopsis, comments

    Adam S. Mills and Others, Plaintiffs in Error v. William G. Brown and Others

    United States Supreme Court

    ERROR to the Supreme Court of the state of Illinois. The plaintiffs in error instituted a suit in the circuit court of the state of Illinois, claiming, by a bill filed in that cour...

  • How to Make it Happen synopsis, comments

    How to Make it Happen

    Maria Hatzistefanis

    Success is not final and failure is not fatal.Maria Hatzistefanis should know. Having spent 20 years building her own company (described by the press as 'an overnight success'), sh...

  • Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death

    W.J. Burley

    A respectable bookseller is found bludgeoned and strangled and it's up to Chief Superintendent Wycliffe to find out why . . .When Matthew Glynn is murdered, Wycliffe is mystified. ...

  • Insidious synopsis, comments

    Insidious

    Catherine Coulter

    In this thrilling entry in #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter’s FBI series, FBI agents Savich and Sherlock must discover who is trying to murder Venus Rasmussen...

  • Film Lighting synopsis, comments

    Film Lighting

    Kris Malkiewicz

    Newly revised and updated, Film Lighting is an indispensible sourcebook for the aspiring and practicing cinematographer, based on extensive interviews with leading cinematographers...

  • Wycliffe and How to Kill A Cat synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe and How to Kill A Cat

    W.J. Burley

    Another classic crime novel featuring Cornwall's Superintendent Wycliffe.The girl was young, with auburn hair arranged on the pillow. Wycliffe could almost believe she was asleep ...

  • Wycliffe and the House of Fear synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe and the House of Fear

    W.J. Burley

    A troubling disappearance. A puzzling mystery. A new investigation for Detective Wycliffe.Detective Superintendent Wycliffe is holidaying in Cornwall when he meets the intriguing K...

  • The Prison Teacher synopsis, comments

    The Prison Teacher

    Mim Skinner

    "The best book I've read this year" Rachael, Goodreads reviewer ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ "Fantastic" Rachel, Goodreads reviewer ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ "Funny, insightful, heartbreaking" NetGalley reviewer ⭐ ⭐...

  • The Creativity Project synopsis, comments

    The Creativity Project

    Colby Sharp

    Book advocate Colby Sharp presents more than forty beloved, awardwinning, diverse and bestselling authors and illustrators in a creative challenge! Colby Sharp invited more than f...

  • Wycliffe And The Last Rites synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe And The Last Rites

    W.J. Burley

    The Cornish Detective seriesA puzzling murder mystery. A tough new case for Detective Wycliffe to investigate.'You can always count on Wycliffe' FINANCIAL TIMES'GRIPPING' THE TIME...

  • Cobble Hill synopsis, comments

    Cobble Hill

    Cecily von Ziegesar

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gossip Girl series brings her sharpeyed and irresistible wit to this “quirky novel of lovable misfits” (Publishers Weekly) chronicli...

  • Wycliffe and the Scapegoat synopsis, comments

    Wycliffe and the Scapegoat

    W.J. Burley

    An ancient legend, an alltoo modern murder, and Chief Superintendent Wycliffe must find the link between them ...Every year, at Halloween, high on the Cornish cliffs, a lifesized e...

  • How to Be an Overnight Success synopsis, comments

    How to Be an Overnight Success

    Maria Hatzistefanis

    Hard won advice practical business advice from the hugely successful entrepreneur and founder of the Rodial skincare, Maria Hatzistefanis with plenty of advice, tips and practica...

  • Cinematography synopsis, comments

    Cinematography

    Kris Malkiewicz

    The Essential Guide to the Cameraman's Craft Since its initial publication in 1973, Cinematography has become the guidebook for filmmakers. Based on their combined fifty years in ...

  • The Last Second synopsis, comments

    The Last Second

    Catherine Coulter

    The New York Times bestselling Brit in the FBI series continues with this thrilling “popcorn movie in print form” (Associated Press) pitting special agents Nicholas Drummond and Mi...

  • Postcards to Europe synopsis, comments

    Postcards to Europe

    Various Authors

    This is not a book about politics. It is a book about what makes us British, and what makes us European.Spend time with some of your favourite writers and artists in this truly uni...