Paul Barber
Acting
Biography
Paul Barber is an actor, known for The Full Monty (1997), Formula 51 (2001) and The Long Good Friday (1980).
Born: March 18, 1951
Place of Birth: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Known For
Gangsters
Birmingham is a melting pot of races and every community has a stake in the city's underworld. When former SAS officer John Kline is released from prison after serving a sentence for murder, he becomes the unwilling catalyst in a gang war. Movie screened as part of Play of Today.
Needle
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
Alive and Kicking
Gritty and powerful Screen One film that takes an unflinching look at drug addiction. Lenny Henry plays a dealer convinced he is untouchable, Robbie Coltrane the ex-gangster turned drug counsellor who is determined to break him. Writer Al Hunter (The Firm) was inspired by the true story of a football team founded to help drug addicts kick their habit.
Only Fools and Horses
Only Fools and Horses.... Is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally transmitted on BBC One from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until 2003. In working-class Peckham in south-east London, ambitious market trader Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter and his younger half-brother Rodney, explore their highs and lows in life, in particular their attempts to get rich. Initially not an immediate hit and receiving little promotion early on, it later achieved consistently high ratings, and the 1996 episode "Time on Our Hands" (originally billed as the series finale) holds the record for the biggest UK audience for a sitcom episode, attracting 24.3 million viewers. The series bears a significant influence on British culture, contributing several words and phrases to the English language.
Only Fools and Horses
Only Fools and Horses.... Is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally transmitted on BBC One from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until 2003. In working-class Peckham in south-east London, ambitious market trader Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter and his younger half-brother Rodney, explore their highs and lows in life, in particular their attempts to get rich. Initially not an immediate hit and receiving little promotion early on, it later achieved consistently high ratings, and the 1996 episode "Time on Our Hands" (originally billed as the series finale) holds the record for the biggest UK audience for a sitcom episode, attracting 24.3 million viewers. The series bears a significant influence on British culture, contributing several words and phrases to the English language.
Only Fools and Horses
Only Fools and Horses.... Is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally transmitted on BBC One from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until 2003. In working-class Peckham in south-east London, ambitious market trader Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter and his younger half-brother Rodney, explore their highs and lows in life, in particular their attempts to get rich. Initially not an immediate hit and receiving little promotion early on, it later achieved consistently high ratings, and the 1996 episode "Time on Our Hands" (originally billed as the series finale) holds the record for the biggest UK audience for a sitcom episode, attracting 24.3 million viewers. The series bears a significant influence on British culture, contributing several words and phrases to the English language.
Rik Mayall Presents: The Big One
Rik Mayall plays an estate agent who takes on the identity of a dead gangster.
Gangsters
A pioneering show starring Maurice Colbourne as Birmingham gangster John Kline. The show was noted for its gritty true-life quality, and often graphic violence.
Boys from the Blackstuff
Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and union leader, George Malone. As they struggle to make ends meet in a depressed economy, and to hold together their financially battered families, they are harrassed by the petty bureaucrats of the DHSS. But the lumbering investigational juggernaut is, both comically and tragically, guided by drivers with only a provisional license.
The Street
Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.
Filmography
as Amos
as Adam
as Florist
as Barrington 'Horse' Mitchell
as Spiceman
as Harris
as Self - Narrator
as Thierry
as Kirk's Dad
as Paul
as Gerry
as Trainer
as Captain Jack
as Dave Pins
as Paul
as Grandad Fred
as Winston Churchill
as Jimmy Joyce
as Frederick
as Prof. Simmington
as Narrator
as Adderley
as Barrington "Horse" Mitchell
as Paul Barber
as Charlie
as Security guard
as Doctor Who (voice)
as Ian McVerry
as Security Guard
as Earl Preston
as Security Guard
as Drugs Counsellor
as Mungo
as Cliff Sidwell
as Carl Meyers
as Taylor Blair
as William Paynter
as Wesley McGregor
as Malcolm
as 2nd Electrician
as Scotty
as Louis Delano
as Denzil
as Denzil Tulser
as Erroll
as Willie Reynolds
as Mackenzie McLeod
as Morgan
as Man in Robe
as Self
as Malleson
as Louis St John
as Malleson
as Sam ‘Lucky’ Ubootu