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Trevor Laird
Islington, London, England
Trevor Laird (born 11 July 1957, London, England) is a British actor. Born in Islington, London in 1957, Laird trained at the Anna Scher Theatre. Early roles included a 1976 role…
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Trevor Laird (born 11 July 1957, London, England) is a British actor. Born in Islington, London in 1957, Laird trained at the Anna Scher Theatre. Early roles included a 1976 role in a TV adaptation of the Peter Prince novel Playthings, directed by Stephen Frears, and several Play For Todays: Victims of Apartheid by Tom Clarke (1978),Barrie Keeffe's Waterloo Sunset (1979) and The Vanishing Army by Robert Holles (1980). 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. 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. 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. 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). 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.
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2024
A Gangster's Kiss
Movie Gilbert
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2021
To Be Someone
Movie Rudy
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2021
Classic Albums: The Who Sell Out
Movie Self
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2021
Cruella
Movie Asthma Man
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2020
Small Axe
TV show Augustin
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2020
Ted Lasso
TV show Denbo
- 2019
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2016
Hamlet
Movie Polonius / Grave Digger 1
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2015
No Offence
TV show Upjohn Henderson
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2013
The Job Lot
TV show Delmar
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2012
Patriarch
Movie
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2011
Death in Paradise
TV show Vince Thuram
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2011
National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors
Movie Lloyd Boateng
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2010
Thorne
TV show Assistant Commissioner
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2009
Trinity
TV show Barrington MacKenzie
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2006
Totally Doctor Who
TV show Self
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2005
Doctor Who
TV show Clive Jones
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2005
Doctor Who Confidential
TV show
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2004
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
TV show Le Mabé
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2004
Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts
Movie Paddy Jones
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2003
Peep Show
TV show Laurie
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2003
The Last Detective
TV show
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2001
Waking the Dead
TV show DI Mike Vedder
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1998
Undercover Heart
TV show Wesley Carter
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1996
Secrets & Lies
Movie Hortense's Brother
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1991
Bernard and the Genie
Movie PC Parker
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1991
Smack and Thistle
Movie Baron Greenback
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1989
Birds of a Feather
TV show Andrew
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1989
Slipstream
Movie Committee Member
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1987
The New Statesman
TV show Lance Okum-Martin
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1986
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
Movie Frax
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1986
Call Me Mister
TV show
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1985
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Movie Floyd
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1985
Flying Devils
Movie Sepp
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1985
Water
Movie Pepito
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1984
The Bill
TV show
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1984
Big Deal
TV show Monty Riley
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1983
Struggle
TV show Charlie
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1982
Easy Money
Movie Frederick
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1982
Jake's End
Movie Heister
