Trevor Laird
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 11, 1957 (age 69)
- Birthplace
- Islington, London, England
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.
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Filmography
A Gangster's Kiss
Movie · as Gilbert
Cruella
Movie · as Asthma Man
To Be Someone
Movie · as Rudy
Classic Albums: The Who Sell Out
Movie · as Self
Ted Lasso
TV · as Denbo · 3 eps
Small Axe
TV · as Augustin · 1 ep
National Theatre Live: Small Island
Movie
Hamlet
Movie · as Polonius / Grave Digger 1
No Offence
TV · as Upjohn Henderson · 1 ep
The Job Lot
TV · as Delmar · 1 ep
Patriarch
Movie
National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors
Movie · as Lloyd Boateng
Death in Paradise
TV · as Vince Thuram · 1 ep
Thorne
TV · as Assistant Commissioner · 1 ep
Trinity
TV · as Barrington MacKenzie · 1 ep
Doctor Who: Time of the Timelords
Movie · as Clive Jones
Totally Doctor Who
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Doctor Who Confidential
TV · 2 eps
Doctor Who
TV · as Clive Jones · 3 eps
Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts
Movie · as Paddy Jones
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
TV · as Le Mabé · 3 eps
The Last Detective
TV · 1 ep
Peep Show
TV · as Laurie · 1 ep
Waking the Dead
TV · as DI Mike Vedder · 2 eps
Undercover Heart
TV · as Wesley Carter · 6 eps
Secrets & Lies
Movie · as Hortense's Brother
Smack and Thistle
Movie · as Baron Greenback
Bernard and the Genie
Movie · as PC Parker
Slipstream
Movie · as Committee Member
Birds of a Feather
TV · as Andrew · 1 ep
The New Statesman
TV · as Lance Okum-Martin · 1 ep
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
Movie · as Frax
Call Me Mister
TV · 1 ep
Water
Movie · as Pepito
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Movie · as Floyd
Flying Devils
Movie · as Sepp
The Bill
TV · 1 ep
Big Deal
TV · as Monty Riley · 1 ep
Struggle
TV · as Charlie · 6 eps
Easy Money
Movie · as Frederick
Pocketful of Dreams
Movie · as Albert
Jake's End
Movie · as Heister
Burning an Illusion
Movie · as Pest
The Long Good Friday
Movie · as Boy Under Car
Babylon
Movie · as Beefy
Quadrophenia
Movie · as Ferdy
Waterloo Sunset
Movie · as Lester
The Vanishing Army
Movie · as Sheldon
Victims of Apartheid
Movie · as Bus conductor
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV · as Sheldon · 1 ep
Play Things
Movie · as Harmon
Playhouse
TV · as Harmon, Albert, Heister, Frederick · 1 ep
Doctor Who
TV · as Frax · 4 eps