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Trevor Laird

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Trevor Laird
Born (1957-07-11) 11 July 1957 (age 67)
London, England
OccupationActor

Trevor Laird (born 11 July 1957, London, England) is a British actor.

Biography

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Born in Islington, London in 1957, Laird trained at the Anna Scher Theatre. [citation needed] Early roles included a 1976 role in a TV adaptation of the Peter Prince novel Playthings, directed by Stephen Frears,[1] and several Play For Todays: Victims of Apartheid by Tom Clarke (1978),[2] Barrie Keeffe's Waterloo Sunset (1979)[3] and The Vanishing Army by Robert Holles (1980).[4]

Laird was a founder member of the Black Theatre Co-operative (now NitroBeat) in 1978 and performed in its inaugural play Welcome Home Jacko by Mustapha Matura the following year.[5] He then had breakthrough roles in the 1979 film Quadrophenia - as Ferdy, a drug supplier for the main character Jimmy - and in Franco Rosso's 1980 cult classic Babylon as Beefy.[6] He played the boy under the car in The Long Good Friday (1980) and appeared in Menelik Shabazz's black British film Burning an Illusion.[7]

Later appearances include the 1986 Doctor Who serial Mindwarp as the guard commander Frax. He later returned to Doctor Who in the role of Clive Jones, father of the Tenth Doctor's companion Martha Jones.

In 1996 Laird played Hortense's brother in the Mike Leigh film Secrets & Lies. He played Wesley Carter in the TV series Undercover Heart, and Trevor in the British gangster film Love, Honour and Obey (2000).[7] He played DI Mike Vedder “End of the Night”, S8:E4 of Waking the Dead (2009).

In 2015, Laird appeared as Vince Thuram in the BBC TV series Death in Paradise. In March 2021, he appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Samuel Asante.[8]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1979 Quadrophenia Ferdy
1980 Babylon Beefy
The Long Good Friday Jim
1981 Burning an Illusion Pest
1982 Walter Errol Television film
1983 The Bride DJ Television film
1985 Water Pepito
De flyvende djævle Sepp
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire Floyd
1989 Slipstream Committee Member
1991 Smack and Thistle Baron Greenback Television film
Bernard and the Genie PC Parker Television film
1996 Secrets & Lies Hortense's Brother
2000 Love, Honour and Obey Trevor
2011 National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors Lloyd Boateng Television film
2013 Patriarch Short film
2014 Family Reunion Dad 'Grandad' Short film
2019 National Theatre Live: Small Island Mr Philip / GI / Kenneth
2020 Education Augustin Wood Part of "Small Axe"
To Be Someone Rudy
2021 Cruella Asthma Man
TBA † Miss the Kiss Gilbert Post-production
Key
† Denotes works that have not yet been released

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1976 BBC2 Playhouse Harmon Episode: "Play Things"
1978 Play for Today Bus Conductor Episode: "Victims of Apartheid"
BBC2 Play of the Week Sheldon Episode: "The Vanishing Army"
1979 Play for Today Lester Episode: "Waterloo Sunset"
1980 Play for Today Sheldon Episode: "The Vanishing Army"
1981 Maybury Winston Recurring role; 2 episodes
1982 BBC2 Playhouse Albert Episode: "A Pocketful of Dreams"
BBC2 Playhouse Heister Episode: "Jake's End"
BBC2 Playhouse Frederick Episode: "Easy Money"
1983 Crown Court Patrick Shadwell Episode: "A Black and White Case: Part 1"
Give Us a Break Ossie Episode: "Streetwise and Nancy Free"
1983–1984 Struggle Charlie Recurring role; 4 episodes
1985 Big Deal Monty Riley Episode: "Getting Knotted"
1986 Call Me Mister Harvey Episode: "Frozen Assets"
Doctor Who Frax Recurring role; 4 episodes
1987 The New Statesman Lance Okum-Martin Episode: "Friends of St. James"
1988 Tickets for the Titanic Miles Episode: "Incident on the Line"
The Lenny Henry Show Trevor Recurring role; 4 episodes
1989 Birds of a Feather Andrew Episode: "Shift"
1992 Love Hurts Wesley Thompson Episode: "Walk Right Back"
1993 Us Girls Give Episode: "Series 2, Episode 5"
1996 Jack and Jeremy's Real Lives First Bodyguard Episode: "Restauranteurs"
1997 Grange Hill Sammy Episode: "Series 20, Episode 7"
1998 Undercover Heart Wesley Carter Miniseries; 6 episodes
1999 Casualty Roy Turner Episode: "Love Over Gold"
The Bill Jimmy Perry Episode: "Hot Money"
2002 Holby City Gavin Clarke Episode: "Judas Kiss: Part 1"
NCS: Manhunt Don Deck Episode: "Out of Time"
2003 Doctors Phil Burton Episode: "Nature's Way"
William and Mary Benjamin Manning Episode: "Series 1, Episode 4"
2004 The Last Detective Paddy Jones Episode: "Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts"
Peep Show Laurie Episode: "Local Zero"
2005 The Murder Room Phil Carter Miniseries; 1 episode
The Eagle Le Mabé Recurring role; 3 episodes
2007 Doctor Who Clive Jones Recurring role; 3 episodes
2009 Waking the Dead DI Mike Vedder Episode: "End of the Night"
Trinity Barrington MacKenzie Recurring role; 2 episodes
2014 Holby City Tito Mullins Episode: "Mummy Dearest"
Toast of London Nick Swivney Recurring role; 2 episodes
2015 Death in Paradise Vince Thuram Episode: "Swimming in Murder"
The Job Lot Delmar Episode: "Series 3, Episode 1"
2017 No Offence Upjohn Henderson Episode: "Series 2, Episode 1"
2021 Doctors Samuel Asante Episode: "Food for Thought"
2021–2023 Ted Lasso Denbo Recurring role; 3 episodes

References

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  1. ^ "Play Things" at IMDb.
  2. ^ "Victims of Apartheid" at IMDb.
  3. ^ "Waterloo Sunset" at IMDb.
  4. ^ "The Vanishing Army" at IMDb.
  5. ^ "Black Theatre Co-operative", Unfinished Histories.
  6. ^ Miguel Cullen, "30 years on: Franco Rosso on why Babylon's burning", The Independent, 11 November 2010.
  7. ^ a b Alison Donnell (2002). "Laird, Trevor". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 173. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
  8. ^ Timblick, Simon. "Doctors spoilers: Can Daniel Granger end the hunger strike?". What's on TV. Future plc. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
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