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Trevor Laird
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Trevor Laird
Homepage
https://riversidestudios.co.uk/our-story/riverside-reflections/trevor-laird/
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1957-07-11,Islington, London, England
Gender
Male
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.

Filmography

5.9

Water
1985-01-11

Smack and Thistle

0

Smack and Thistle
1991-04-20

7

Patriarch
2012-12-31

8

Cruella
2021-05-26

7.037

Quadrophenia
1979-09-14

Burning an Illusion

5.2

Burning an Illusion
1981-11-13

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

5.923

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985-11-25

5.3

Flying Devils
1985-08-16

4.5

Slipstream
1989-06-22

7.6

Secrets & Lies
1996-05-24

The Long Good Friday

7.136

The Long Good Friday
1980-11-01

6.882

Babylon
1980-11-07

0

Hamlet
2016-10-27

Bernard and the Genie

7.268

Bernard and the Genie
1991-11-23

A Gangster's Kiss

0

A Gangster's Kiss
2024-06-24

National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors

6.6

National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors
2011-09-15

The Vanishing Army

0

The Vanishing Army
1978-11-29

Victims of Apartheid

0

Victims of Apartheid
1978-10-24

0

Easy Money
1982-05-28

National Theatre Live: Small Island

8

National Theatre Live: Small Island
2019-06-27

Doctor Who: Mindwarp

7

Doctor Who: Mindwarp
1986-10-25

3.773

To Be Someone
2021-07-09

Waterloo Sunset

0

Waterloo Sunset
1979-01-23

0

Play Things
1976-05-07

Pocketful of Dreams

0

Pocketful of Dreams
1982-03-12

0

Jake's End
1982-05-14

Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts

0

Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts
2004-03-05

Totally Doctor Who

6.5

Totally Doctor Who
2006-04-13

Doctor Who Confidential

8.1

Doctor Who Confidential
2005-03-26

6.7

The Bill
1984-10-16

7.865

Doctor Who
1963-11-23

The Last Detective

7.6

The Last Detective
2003-02-07

5

Call Me Mister
1986-09-05

8.392

Ted Lasso
2020-08-14

7.554

Doctor Who
2005-03-26

Waking the Dead

7.2

Waking the Dead
2001-06-18

5.833

Trinity
2009-09-20

Undercover Heart

10

Undercover Heart
1998-10-01

The New Statesman

7.5

The New Statesman
1987-09-13

8.039

Peep Show
2003-09-19

Death in Paradise

7.447

Death in Paradise
2011-10-25

Birds of a Feather

6.1

Birds of a Feather
1989-10-16

7.058

Small Axe
2020-11-15

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey

6.9

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
2004-10-10

7

Playhouse
1974-03-13

7

Playhouse
1974-03-13

7

Playhouse
1974-03-13

7

Playhouse
1974-03-13

BBC2 Play of the Week

7

BBC2 Play of the Week
1977-09-21