Hooky Pete in February 2012. In 2012, Barber played the role of Captain in Sky 1's Sinbad. In 2014, He appeared as Captain Jack Parrot in Death in Paradise on 18 February 2014. Barber also appeared as Fieldhouse in Home from Home in the 2016 pilot episode, and he appeared again in the 2018 series. In 2017, Barber guest-starred in two episodes of the CBBC Tracy Beaker spin-off series The Dumping Ground as a homeless man, George. The following year, Barber appeared in two episodes of Casualty as Ernest Maxwell, reprising the role in 2019. He had previously appeared in Casualty a number of times as other characters. Film work He had small roles in the big-screen version of Porridge (1979) and The Long Good Friday (1980). Barber's best known role was playing one of the stripping steelworkers in the 1997 film The Full Monty. He reunited with Full Monty co-star Robert Carlyle and Samuel L. Jackson in the Liverpool-based crime film The 51st State (2001). In 2002, He played the role of Luther in the drama The Hidden City. In 2006, he starred in the feature film Dead Man's Cards, Barber again returned to Merseyside, playing the part of Paul, the head doorman at a Liverpool club. In the 2014 film One Night in Istanbul, Barber plays a cabbie who is down on his luck and with his friend, Tommy, strikes a deal with a local gangster that allows them to take their young sons to watch Liverpool Football Club play in Turkey. Paul Barber was cast alongside fellow UK comedy stars Alexei Sayle and Ricky Tomlinson in 2017's Gloves off. He also appears in the 2022 crime action thriller film Renegades. Personal life Barber was awarded an honorary doctorate from Liverpool John Moores University in July 2011 for 'outstanding contribution to the performing arts'. He lives in Clacton, Essex. Filmography Film Television References External links Rare British Television Reviews – The Front Line BBC article 1951 births English people of Irish descent English people of Sierra Leonean descent Black British male actors English male film actors Sierra Leone Creole people Male actors from Liverpool Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners Living people British male comedy actors