Gary McDonald

Gary McDonald

Born: January 1, 1961
in London, England, UK
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Gary McDonald (born in London in 1961) is an English actor of Jamaican descent. A student at Elliott school in Putney, McDonald played football for Wimbledon FC under Dario Gradi.

He was a member of the Royal Court Theatre from 1979-80, appearing in various plays at the Court such as Hard time Pressure, Hero’s Welcome and Che Walker’s Been so Long. In the 1980’s he performed with the Talawa Theatre company in The Black Jacobins, The Importance of Being Earnest and A Raisin in the Sun with the Black Theatre. He appeared at the Royal National Theatre in Macbeth and Black Poppies, Rhapsody in Black & White and at The Cottlesloe in Blood Wedding. Other theatre credits include Scrape of the Black and Mike Leigh’s It’s a Great Big Shame at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.

His first notable television role came in 1987 when he was cast as Darren Roberts in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He left the role in 1988. He has also appeared in Numb3ers, The Bill, Between the Lines, South of the Border, as Captain John Black in Dream Team (1999-2006) and in Brothers and Sisters, among others. He has also appeared in various films.

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A Miracle Before Christmas
Title: A Miracle Before Christmas
Character: Bartender Gary
Released: December 8, 2022
Type: Movie
With a little help from an angel, Mercedes Wright, a fast-talking popular relationship therapist with all the answers when it comes to fixing everyone else's marriage, must now use the magic of Christmas to find the secret to save her own.
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#Unknown
Title: #Unknown
Character: The Knight
Released: January 10, 2022
Type: Movie
Years after a series of random murders took place in 2017, book author Michael Lane suddenly begins receiving haunting calls from the unknown. Instead of focusing on the encore to his successful debut book, he becomes obsessed with this mystery and spirals out of control as he unravels each victim caught in the web of a sadistic killer.
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Voodoo Macbeth
Title: Voodoo Macbeth
Character: Jack Carter
Released: December 9, 2021
Type: Movie
In 1936 Harlem, the first all-Black cast to perform Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', directed by a young and arrogant Orson Welles, battles to make it to opening night.
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Private Number
Title: Private Number
Character: The Knight
Released: May 1, 2015
Type: Movie
A series of cryptic phone messages and visions haunt a writer while he struggles to finish a novel. As they increase in intensity, he loses his grip on reality, eventually obsessing over an old mystery that will lead to horrific revelations about both him and his loyal wife.
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Title: Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down
Character: Pilot Walsh
Released: July 7, 2014
Type: TV
A fearless rogue soldier, a former general and the U.S. President become pawns in a deadly contest of wills on a global scale.
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Outpost: Black Sun
Title: Outpost: Black Sun
Character: Abbot
Released: April 25, 2012
Type: Movie
A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie Stormtroopers. Their mission is to fight their way behind enemy lines, locate the technology at the source of this growing threat and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Temmy Verga
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Mob Rules
Title: Mob Rules
Character: Tyrone
Released: May 17, 2011
Type: Movie
Time is running out for two elite criminals as they seek out revenge to get the money they are owed after a heist gone wrong, years ago. They’ve traveled across the country, tracked down their ex-partner and planned every detail of their attack. When they finally come face to face these two criminals will refuse to back down until they get what belongs to them.
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Title: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Character: Blackwood
Released: November 6, 2010
Type: Movie
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
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The Shepherd: Border Patrol
Title: The Shepherd: Border Patrol
Character: Billy Pawnell
Released: March 4, 2008
Type: Movie
A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.
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Until Death
Title: Until Death
Character: Larenz
Released: January 19, 2007
Type: Movie
Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.
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Title: Numb3rs
Character: LAPD #1
Released: January 23, 2005
Type: TV
Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.
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Fields of Gold
Title: Fields of Gold
Character: Johnson
Released: June 8, 2002
Type: Movie
A two-part conspiracy thriller starring Anna Friel. An eager young photographer and a bitter tabloid hack are sent to investigate mysterious deaths at a cottage hospital. But why is the new environment minister keeping tabs on their every move? The TV movie tackles controversial topics like genetically modified plants, the role of large pharmaceutical companies and the question of control of state and government
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All or Nothing
Title: All or Nothing
Character: Neville
Released: May 17, 2002
Type: Movie
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.
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Title: Holby City
Character: Thomas Abara
Released: January 12, 1999
Type: TV
Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.
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Respect
Title: Respect
Released: May 9, 1998
Type: Movie
A love story set during a hot summer in London's Portobello district.
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Title: Dream Team
Character: John Black
Released: October 7, 1997
Type: TV
On and off pitch battles of of the fictional Harchester United Football Club.
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Secrets & Lies
Title: Secrets & Lies
Character: Boxer
Released: May 24, 1996
Type: Movie
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a working class white woman, Cynthia.
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Title: Thief Takers
Character: DC Alan Oxford
Released: January 25, 1996
Type: TV
Thief Takers was a police drama series made by Central Independent Television for the ITV network. The show depicted the work of a team in the Metropolitan Police Service's Flying Squad. Each case was a stand alone episode or sometimes spread over two episodes and continuing drama was provided by the depiction of the personal lives of the officers in the team and their families. Production comprised a pilot aired in 1995 followed by the commissioning of three series between 1996 and 1997.
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Bliss
Title: Bliss
Character: Gee
Released: June 11, 1995
Type: Movie
Life for shy, romantic civil servant Leslie Bliss would be pure bliss if only he could get together with Julia, the new love of his life. Saffron and Gee appea rto be having a few problems on that score in the flat upstairs. Should all his hopes come to nothing, there's always his beloved Mastermind to fall back on.
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Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre
Title: Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre
Character: Gary
Released: May 21, 1995
Type: Movie
When a shy young man arrives on her doorstep, Alice Hartley grabs the chance to escape from her loveless marriage. She and Michael open a Growth Centre with a difference - offering sex, drugs and personalised water births.
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Black Poppies
Title: Black Poppies
Released: October 18, 1992
Type: Movie
"A dramatisation of the experiences of black servicemen from the Second World War to the present day. These fascinating accounts - vivid, humorous, often harrowing - offer an unusual and sometimes startling perspective on army life. First produced by the Royal National Theatre Studio and now re-created for television, Black Poppies was filmed on the Broadwater Farm Estate in north London." - Radio Times, 1992
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Floating
Title: Floating
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Disturbed by visions of a labyrinthine London about to be consumed by water, a lonely father begins to destroy his family's tower block flat in order to make room for an unlikely refuge in their front room.
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Young Soul Rebels
Title: Young Soul Rebels
Character: Davis
Released: August 9, 1991
Type: Movie
Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.
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Shooting Stars
Title: Shooting Stars
Character: Calvin
Released: May 17, 1990
Type: Movie
Drama set around the kidnapping of a footballer.
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Title: South Of The Border
Character: Harvatt
Released: October 25, 1988
Type: TV
Drama concerning a pair of female private detectives, Pearl Parker (Buki Armstrong) and Finn Gallagher (Rosie Rowell) operating within the bustling multicultural communities of South London. The series was renowned for affording opportunities to new talent, women and people of colour both in front of and behind the cameras.
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Elphida
Title: Elphida
Character: John Anthony
Released: October 8, 1987
Type: Movie
Elphida is 30. She has been married for 13 years and has 3 children. She plans to restart her education when her youngest child goes to nursery. Then the nursery is closed. On top of this, her parents are contemplating divorce and want her to act as a go between.
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Top Kids
Title: Top Kids
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A fun journey through the history of the automobile, this film is about a group of future computer hackers that wire an arcade game to work as a time machine. Among appearances in the movie are Henry Ford, Mercedes Benz, and modern race car driver Niki Lauda, as one of the boys becomes trapped within the newly created game. (IMDb)
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London's Burning: The Movie
Title: London's Burning: The Movie
Character: Andreas 'Ethnic' Lewis
Released: December 7, 1986
Type: Movie
It's Josie Ingham's first day at Blackwall Firestation but things aren't going so well being the only female firefighter in an all-male team. Not only does she have to prove to them that she can do the job, problems at home complicate her life even further. Outside, in the heart of the city, tensions are rising to the extreme, Blue Watch have a long night ahead.
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Title: EastEnders
Character: Darren
Released: February 19, 1985
Type: TV
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
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Burning an Illusion
Title: Burning an Illusion
Character: Policeman
Released: November 13, 1981
Type: Movie
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.