Louis Mahoney

Louis Felix Danner Mahoney was born on 8th September 1938  in The Gambia and was a British actor. Widely identified for his works like Danger Man, Z Cars, Jason King, the actor was also an anti-racist activist.  Louis Mahoney, based in Hampstead in London later came to the UK in 1957 to pursue medicine and become a doctor however dropped this ambition to join the drama school in the 1970s. He was also one of the initial black actors to join the Royal Shakespeare Company.  He was a representative of African-Asian members at Equity (the council of the actors, singers union) and was the joint Vice-President between 1994 and 1996.  As a chairman of Equity's Afro-Asian Committee he strived to steer the broadcasters and also the drama schools to vary their perspective and tried  to reform the representation of non-white actors on British TV. 

Louis has worked with Colchester Rep and The Mercury Theatre and has worked diligently on the stage including shows at the National Theatre, Young Vic, Royal Court, Almeida and his ending performance being in Alan Bennett's Allelujah! at the Bridge Theatre in 2018. Louis Mahoney has frequently been seen in TV shows like The Troubleshooters, Menace, Danger Man, Special Branch, The Professionals, Dixon of Dock Green, Danger Man, Doctor Who. He has also appeared in films like The Plague of the Zombies, Omen III :The Final Conflict, Rise and Fall of Idi Amin, White Mischief, Cry Freedom, Shooting Fish, Wondrous Oblivion, Shooting Dogs.  He had also featured in the Channel 4 documentary Random (2011) and Being Human The show ended in the year 2013 and still has the >> Read More... (BBC Three drama) as Leo, an aged and dying werewolf.  Louis Mahoney died at the age of 81.