Acting Career
McLean was featured prominently in a television documentary on nightclub security staff, titled Bouncers. He gravitated towards acting after being introduced to an agent by two long-term show-business friends, Mike Reid and Freddie Starr, for whom he had "minded," and also after "minding" the cast of television shows such as EastEnders and The Bill. McLean started in such roles as Eddie Davies in ITV's Customs drama The Knock, and moved to small roles such as that of a police chief in The Fifth Element, his most acclaimed role being in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, playing the part of 'Barry The Baptist'.
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