Trevor Laird

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 1978Barrie Keeffes Waterloo Sunset 1979 and The Vanishing Army by Robert Holles 1980 Laird was a founder member of the Black Theatre Cooperative 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 Rossos 1980 cult classic Babylon as Beefy He played the boy under the car in The Long Good Friday 1980 and appeared in Menelik Shabazzs 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 Doctors companion Martha Jones In 1996 Laird played Hortenses 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 S8E4 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