Gary Beadle

Gary Beadle born 8 July 1965 is a British actor Beadle was raised as one of five children in Bermondsey South London where he was baptised a Roman Catholic As children he and his elder brother Rikki produced a version of the 1976 youth musicalgangster film Bugsy Malone for Southwark London Borough Council Directed by Rikki who starred as Talula Gary played janitor Fizzy Rikki tried to invite the original films director Alan Parker to the performance but his assistant did come and used her connections to get Rikki Gary and their younger sister into the communitybased Anna Scher Theatre School After developing a love of hip hop and especially RunDMC and the Sugarhill Gang Beadle moved to New York City in his early twenties On his return to London using the moniker Pretty Boy Gee he formed a rap group called The City Limits Crew alongside Little Stevie Bee In 1985 the duo released two 12 singles Keep It On w The Mutant Rockers and Fresher Than Ever on the independent record label Survival Records Also that year the crew recorded a session on BBC Radio 1 for John Peel and performed at Electro Rock an international hip hop event at the Hippodrome He also worked as a comedian but started to work as an actor and appeared in The Young Ones BBC 1984 the 1986 film Absolute Beginners Jerusalem the 1987 short film starring the Style Council pop group Making Out in 198991 as Simon the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous where he played the gay lover of Eddies Jennifer Saunders exhusband Justin the TV series Born to Run in 1997 the ITV police drama The Bill and BBC medical drama Casualty 2001 In 2001 he started in the role of Paul Trueman in EastEnders A loveable rogue Beadle left the role when his contract was due to terminate as he had not appreciated the director and script writers wanting his character to become a drug dealer He therefore departed from the show and his exit featured the character being killed off by his gangland boss Andy Hunter Michael Higgs In 2007 he appeared in BBC Three comedy Thieves Like Us In 2008 he appeared in The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 as Clyde Langers father Paul In 2009 he appeared in Malice in Wonderland as DJ Felix Chester a Cheshire Cat allusion In 2010 he appeared in the Royal Court Theatres Sucker Punch by Roy Williams In 2012 he appeared in Hustle as a police officer In 2015 he played Docker in BBC One drama The Interceptor and also featured in the Ron Howarddirected film In the Heart of the Sea which was released in December 2015 In 2016 he performed as Abioseh an extribesman in the Royal National Theatres production of Les Blancs He also starred as a Detective Chief Inspector in an episode of Silent Witness