 In the 1970s, he was selected by casting agents to appear in a theatre play, and he started to appear in Australian TV commercials, print advertisements, local Australian TV shows such as "Homicide" and "Matlock Police" and historical TV mini-series like "Against The Wind", "Sara Dane" and "All The Rivers Run".His first cinema appearance was a minor role in "Felicity" (1979), a low-budget, erotic fantasy film.Wells was cast as the homicidal biker Wez, in "Mad Max 2" (1981), filmed around Silverton near Broken Hill in outback New South Wales, Australia.