Gary Whelan

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Irish actor (born 1953)

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name	Gary Whelan
image	Gary Whelan on Loopline Film.jpg
caption	Whelan in 2022
birth_date
birth_place	Dublin, Ireland
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Early life

Whelan was born in Ireland but he relocated to London when he was ten years old. He then attended Holloway School.

Acting

He has portrayed several roles in the police force. He has twice featured in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, once as DS Terry Rich from 1985 to 1987, and later as DS Paul Kemmit in the spin-off EastEnders: Perfectly Frank in 2003. He played DS Terry Amson in Prime Suspect with Helen Mirren in 1991, D.I Kent in Brookside, D.I. Harry Haines in the ITV drama, The Bill in 1992–1995, and he also played a policeman in the 1991 film Bernard and the Genie, among others.

He also played Brendan Kearney, the village schoolmaster in Ballykissangel (1996–2001), and Danny Parsons, the unscrupulous (fictional) manager of pop group S Club 7 in their debut TV series Miami 7 (1999).

On stage Whelan has played Horatio in Hamlet and Salisbury in Richard II. He has also appeared in two of the Pink Panther movies and his other film credits include Cry Freedom, Paper Marriage, Moll Flanders and Michael Collins. Recent film roles were O'Connor in Villa of Roses and Declan Murphy in A Flight of Fancy.

Among Whelan's other television credits are Glenroe, Angels, Hideaway, Minder, The Royal and Kavanagh QC. Gary has also been seen in the roles of Sam Tilley in Uncle Silas and Charlie Pearch in In Deep. In 2005 he appeared in the BBC hospital drama Casualty@Holby City and in 2006 he starred in Channel 4's Goldplated.

Personal life

Whelan lived in Brighton and owned its popular Lion & Lobster pub from 2001 until 2014 when he sold it to a pub chain for £4.5 million and moved to Dublin.

He currently owns the Walrus pub in Brighton and the Dalkey Duck pub in Dublin. and The Wild Duck in Temple Bar, as well as The Flying Duck and SMASH IT burgers.

Filmography

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Babylon	CID Detective #2
1982	Trail of the Pink Panther	4th Mafia Boss
1983	Ascendancyy	Soldier
1983	Curse of the Pink Panther	4th Mafia Boss
1987	Zoeken naar Eileen	Marc Nolan
1987	Cry Freedom	Police sergeant
1992	Papierowe malzenstwo	Boss
1992	The Bill	DS Haines	Episode: "Discipline"
1993-1995	The Bill	DI Harry Haines	Main cast, 20 episodes
1996	Moll Flanders	Prison Guard
1996	Michael Collins	Hoey
2001	One Up on Two	Postman
2002	Villa des Roses	Mr. O'Connor
2004	Beyond the Sea	Jules Podell
2006	The Contract	Stanfield
2008	Telstar: The Joe Meek Story	Detective
2014	Dracula Untold	Lucian's Monk #3
2016	Out of Innocence	Judge Griffin
2023	All You Need Is Death	The Old King
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References

[http://www.oldcamdenians.info/school The Old Camdenians Club]. Retrieved 31 January 2015
(4 July 2001). "Bill star takes on roaring trade". [[The Argus (Brighton).
Vowles, Neil. (8 April 2014). "London pub chain buys Brighton's Lion and Lobster for record £4.5m". The Argus.
"The Dalkey Duck".

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