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Aliases: Trevor H. Laird , Trevor H Laird

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Islington, London, England

Homepage: https://riversidestudios.co.uk/our-story/riverside-reflections/trevor-laird/

Movie Involvements: 15

TV Involvements: 7


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Doctor Who
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8

Doctor Who

(2005) Clive Jones
Doctor Who
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8

Doctor Who

(1963) Frax
Waking the Dead
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7

Waking the Dead

(2001) DI Mike Vedder
The Long Good Friday
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7

The Long Good Friday

(1980) Boy Under Car
Secrets & Lies
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8

Secrets & Lies

(1996) Hortense's Brother
Quadrophenia
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7

Quadrophenia

(1979) Ferdy
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
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7

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey

(2004) Le Mabé
Small Axe
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7

Small Axe

(2020) Augustin

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Gilbert
2021 Rudy
Asthma Man
2020 Augustin
Denbo
2019 N/A
2016 Polonius / Grave Digger 1
2012 N/A
2011 Vince Thuram
Lloyd Boateng
2009 Barrington MacKenzie
2006 N/A
2005 N/A
Clive Jones
2004 Le Mabé
2003 Laurie
N/A
2001 DI Mike Vedder
1998 Wesley Carter
1996 Hortense's Brother
1991 PC Parker
Baron Greenback
1989 Andrew
Committee Member
1987 Lance Okum-Martin
1986 Frax
N/A
1985 Floyd
Sepp
Pepito
1984 N/A
1982 Frederick
1981 Pest
1980 Beefy
Boy Under Car
1979 Ferdy
Lester
1978 Sheldon
Bus conductor
1976 Harmon
1963 Frax
Year Character Movie/Tv

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