Norman Beaton
Actor/Actriz
17
Filmes
14
Séries
Norman Beaton was a popular and much loved Guyanese born British actor. He arrived in the UK in 1960 and worked as a calypso singer and musician and a teacher - being the first black teacher employed by the education authority in Liverpool. His heart set on a career in showbusiness, he moved to Bristol and became a presenter on the regional news magazine Points West, before a two week prison sentence curtailed his presenting career. He subsequently found work in London's West End, appearing in The Tempest as Ariel, a role he subsequently cited as the most important in his career. He helped set up the Black Theatre in Brixton in the mid 70s and broke into television with the first black British sitcom, The Fosters in 1976, playing Lenny Henry's father. A star turn in the movie Black Joy followed a year later, as did the principal role in the fledgling black soap Empire Road for the BBC. But it is perhaps his performance as Desmond Ambrose, the crotchety Peckham barber in Channel 4's hit sitcom Desmond's that Beaton will forever be remembered for. The series ran from 1988 until his ill health curtailed the show in 1994. He retired to Georgetown, the place of his birth, but collapsed and died of a heart attack at the airport on arrival, on 13th December 1994. He was 60 years old.
Como Ator/Atriz
The Cosby Show
Carleton
Minder
Billy
Playhouse
Trevor All
The Protectors
Chauffeur
Hammer House of Horror
Mr. Ngenko
Dispatches
Robert Mugabe
Sykes
Richard Kydd
The Play on One
Rockliffe's Babies
Mal
Desmond's
Desmond Ambrose
Eureka
Byron Judson
Little Napoleons
N.K. Edwards
Empire Road
A espaldas de la ley
Governor Chalk
The Fosters
Samuel Foster
Dead Head
Caractacus
Endgame
Hamm
Up the Chastity Belt
Blacksmith
Pressure
Preacher
Airbase
Voice
Black Joy
Dave King
In Sickness and in Health
Mr Byron
Playing Away
Willie Boy
Black Christmas
Bertie
Black and White in Colour
Self
Real Life
Leon McDonald
Growing Pains
Ngenko
Easy Money
Trevor
Rachel and the Roarettes
Priest
Nice