Louis Mahoney

Acting

Born September 8, 1938, The Gambia

Gambian Louis Felix Danner Mahoney came to England ostensibly to train as a doctor. However, he abandoned medicine for the stage, probably his original intention. He enrolled at acting school in the 1970s and was a tireless campaigner for racial equality in his profession.

Filmography

• 2018National Theatre Live: Allelujah! — Neville
• River — Lumo
• The Trials of Jimmy Rose — Charlie Cook
• You, Me and the Apocalypse — Cardinal Anderson
• 2013Captain Phillips — Maersk Alabama Crew
• 2013Jonah — Old Mbwana
• 2011Random — Dad
• Being Human — Leo
• 2009Victoria Falls: The Smoke That Thunders — Narrator, Writer
• 2006All In The Game — Arthur
• Doctor Who — Old Billy
• New Tricks — Harry Page
• Waking the Dead — Reverend Dennis Grant
• Urban Gothic — Old Man / Papa Legba
• Harbour Lights — Elvis
• 1997Shooting Fish — Magistrate
• Turning World — Mr. Roberts
• 1996A Son of Africa: The Autobiography of a Slave — Father
• 1993One Foot in the Grave: One Foot in the Algarve — Humphrey
• Runaway Bay — Jahman
• 1990Women and Men: Stories of Seduction — Train Attendant (segment "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt")
• South of the Border — Clifford Stone
• 1987Cry Freedom — Lesotho Goverment Official
• The Lenny Henry Show — Jake
• 1987White Mischief — Abdullah
• Casualty — Tom Cavanagh
• 1986Death Is Part of the Process — Sipho
• Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye — Dr. French
• The Brothers McGregor — Mr Osborne
• 1984Desert of Lies — Sylveste
• Miss Marple — Dr French
• 1984Sheena — Elder 1
• Natural World — Narrator
• The Old Men at the Zoo — Reporter
• 1982A Woman Called Golda — Journalist
• 1981Amin: The Rise and Fall — Freedom fighter Ofumbi
• Bergerac — Kofi Mensah
• 1981The Final Conflict — Brother Paulo
• 1980Kiss and Tell — Conference Director
• 1980Life for Christine — Doctor, Holloway
• The Professionals — Doctor
• 1975Doctor Who: Planet of Evil — Ponti
• Fawlty Towers — Doctor
• Born Free — Chief Olotuno
• 1973Doctor Who: Frontier in Space — Newscaster
• Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? — Frank
• Crown Court — Thuo Kamuny
• Menace — Lusaka's Secretary
• 1970Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition — Julius
• ITV Playhouse — Conference director
• 1967Slave Girls — Head Boy
• 1966The Plague of the Zombies — Servant
• 1965Curse of the Voodoo — African Expert
• 1964Guns at Batasi
• Doctor Who — Ponti, Newscaster