Gary Beadle (born 1965) is an English actor, best known for playing Paul Trueman in EastEnders and Gary Barwick in Operation Good Guys.
Beadle has also appeared in The Young Ones (BBC 1984); the 1986 film Absolute Beginners; Jerusalem, the 1987 short film starring the Style Council pop group; the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, where he played the gay lover of Eddie's (Jennifer Saunders) ex-husband; the TV series Born To Run in 1997; the ITV police drama The Bill; BBC medical dramas Casualty (2001), Holby City (2005) and Doctors (2006). He also had a role in the Jean-Claude Van Damme film Til Death, released in 2007. In 2004 he presented the UMA Awards with singer and ex-EastEnder Michelle Gayle.
He married Tanya Findel-Hawkins on 6 September 2003 and they have 2 children. He is currently appearing in BBC Three comedy Thieves Like Us. His brother is actor, writer and performer Rikki Beadle-Blair. In 2008 he appeared in The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 as Clyde Langer's father, Paul. In 2010 he appeared in the Royal Court Theatre's Sucker Punch by Roy Williams. In 2012 he appeared in Hustle (TV series) as a police officer.
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“It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.”
—Muriel Beadle (b. 1915)