Trevor Laird is an English actor.

Biography

Born in

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. Laird trained at the Anna Scher Theatre. Early roles included a 1976 role in a TV adaptation of the

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, and several ''

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''s: ''Victims of Apartheid'' by Tom Clarke (1978),

Barrie Keeffe __NOTOC__ Barrie Colin Keeffe (31 October 1945 – 10 December 2019) was an English dramatist and screenwriter. Best known for his screenplay for the gangster classic, ''The Long Good Friday'' (1980), starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, Keeff ...

's ''Waterloo Sunset'' (1979) and ''The Vanishing Army'' by Robert Holles (1980). Laird was a founder member of the Black Theatre Co-operative (now

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) in 1978 and performed in its inaugural play ''Welcome Home Jacko'' by

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the following year. He then had breakthrough roles in the 1979 film ''

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'' - as Ferdy, a drug supplier for the main character Jimmy - and in Franco Rosso's 1980 cult classic '' Babylon'' as Beefy.Miguel Cullen
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'', 11 November 2010. He played the boy under the car in ''

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'' (1980) and appeared in Menelik Shabazz's black British film '' Burning an Illusion''. Later appearances include the 1986 '' Doctor Who'' serial ''

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'' as the guard commander Frax. He later returned to ''Doctor Who'' in the role of Clive Jones, father of the

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's companion

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. In 1996 Laird played Hortense's brother in the

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film '' Secrets and Lies''. He played Wesley Carter in the TV series ''

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'', 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

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Filmography

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* English male television actors Living people People from Islington (district) Black British male actors Male actors from London 20th-century English male actors Alumni of the Anna Scher Theatre School English people of Ghanaian descent Year of birth missing (living people) {{England-tv-actor-stub