Trevor Thomas (actor)

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Trevor Thomas is a British actor. [1] He acted mostly around the late 1970s mostly in television programmes, but also starred in the 1977 film Black Joy , alongside Norman Beaton, [2] as well as in stage productions. [3] Thomas's other film credits include Yesterday's Hero (1979), A Hole In Babylon (1979), Inseminoid (1981), Sheena (1984), Underworld (1985), Playing Away (1987) and The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000). His television appearances include Space: 1999 (1976), The Fosters ("Take Your Partners", 1977), The Professionals ("Klansmen", 1977), Rockliffe's Babies ("Sweet and Sour Revenge", 1987), Silent Witness ("The World Cruise", 2000), Minder ("Gunfight at the O.K. Laundrette", 1979, and "Fiddler on the Hoof", 1989) and The Sweeney ("The Bigger They Are", 1978). [4]

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References

  1. "Trevor Thomas". BFI. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012.
  2. Josie Dolan and Andrew Spicer, "On the Margins: Anthony Simmons: The Optimists of Nine Elms and Black Joy", in Paul Newland (ed.), Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s, Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 2010, p. 87.
  3. Rodreguez King-Dorset, Black British Theatre Pioneers: Yvonne Brewster and the First Generation of Actors, Playwrights and Other Practitioners, McFarland & Company, 2014, p. 27.
  4. "Trevor Thomas". TV.com. CBS Interactive.