Louis Mahoney

Louis Mahoney is a Gambian-born British actor.

He is one of only a few actors to have appeared in the Classic and Revived series of Doctor Who.

Born in The Gambia, Mahoney originally studied to be a doctor but abandoned ambitions for a medical career to become a drama school student in the 1970s. He is a long-standing campaigner for racial equality within the acting profession.

He has been seen most frequently on television in series such as: Danger Man, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, The Troubleshooters, Menace, Special Branch, Doctor Who (in the stories Frontier in Space, Planet of Evil and "Blink"), Quiller, Fawlty Towers (as Dr Finn in "The Germans", 1975), The Professionals, Miss Marple, Yes, Prime Minister, Bergerac, The Bill, Casualty, Holby City andSea of Souls.

His film appearances include: The Plague of the Zombies, Omen III: The Final Conflict, White Mischief and Cry Freedom.

He has featured in the Channel 4 documentary Random (2011) and in the BBC Three drama Being Human (2012) as Leo, an aged and dying werewolf. He is a long-standing campaigner for racial equality within the acting profession.

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