Larrington Walker

Birth : , Kingston, Jamaica

Death : 2017-09-03

History

Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1947, Larrington Walker was a British-based actor best known for his roles in The Chinese Detective and the 1980s children's educational series You and Me. His film credits included Human Traffic, Second Coming and Finding Your Feet. He continued to work right up until his death, appearing in the BBC's Death in Paradise when he died at the age of 70 in Guadeloupe, where the series is filmed. When the episode was broadcast, the production dedicated it to his memory.

Profile

Movies

Finding Your Feet

Gerald Braithwaite

A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.

Afro Punk Girl

Mr. Dandy

A dystopian sci-fi drama set in a near future Britain, where Christmases are hot, nights are filled with violence and the government is replaced by a military leadership enforcing the "Happiness Agenda". Lil, a punk rocker meets Mr Dandy, an alcoholic rebel with an electronic voice box, who teaches her the importance of compassion.

Second Coming

Vincent, Jax's Dad

A married, middle-class London couple are shocked when they seem to have been blessed — or cursed — with an immaculate conception.

As You Like It

Adam

As You Like It, Shakespeare's famous pastoral comedy of love and disguise, is reimagined here with darker, more sombre undertones. Performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Human Traffic

Koop's Father

Five twenty-something friends spend a drug-fueled weekend in Cardiff, Wales.

Thin Air

Maurice

Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks.

Drums Along Balmoral Drive

TV Newsreader

'I don't think at first I thought at all. I had a nice house, lovely kids. I didn't think about blacks at all. I should've done, but I didn't. They were just there.'

Fighting Back

Gabriel

A single mother returns to her home town after fifteen years of unhappy marriage and fights to make a better life for herself and her children.

The Moon Over Soho

Joseph L. Patterson

A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his formidable German mother.

Burning an Illusion

Tony

A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.

Murder Rap

Ernest

An Englishman's home is his castle, and Wallie aims to prove it.

A Hole in Babylon

Deskman

Three black men rob a Knightsbridge Italian restaurant. But when the police are called and the robbery becomes a siege, the men find themselves in a situation out of their control.

Waterloo Sunset

Jeff

Grace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same.