Actor
Brian Bovell
Born October 26, 1959 in London, England, UK49 films
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First watchSecrets & Lies19967.6as Hortense's BrotherAfter her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.View filmEssential films
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Filmography
49 films as actor- 2026Merry Christmas Aubrey FlintClarence
- 2026Ashes Again!Father
- 2026BreachInterrogator (segment "How to be Human")
- 2025The Man in My BasementBrent Blakey
- 2025Tiny Little Voices
- 2025Time Travel Is Dangerous!Ralph Sheldrake
- 2024The Book of ClarenceJoseph
- 2023The Licensed FoolThe Narrator
- 2021The Football MonologuesFrank
- 2021Tom & JerryAnnoyed Vendor
- 2021Dark CornersGrant
- 2021EcstasyIan
- 2020Roald Dahl's The WitchesReginald
- 2020ListenSocial Services Officer
- 2020SolitaryHarry
- 2018Down a Dark HallDr. MacMillan
- 2017How to be HumanInterrogator
- 2017Cla'amBiccle
- 2017Never LandFisherman Jeremiah
- 2015The Service
- 2015PanLong John Standing
- 2015Sealed with a KissSt Claire Du Bois
- 2014Get SantaPoliceman
- 201213 Steps DownTom Akwaa
- 2007DeadmeatBones
- 2006Shoot the MessengerCouncillor Watts
- 2003ShoreditchChad
- 2003Love ActuallyRadio Watford DJ
- 2002All or NothingGarage Owner
- 2002Mama AfricaOlu (segment "Hang Time")
- 2001HotelCardinal
- 2001Digitopia
- 2000SortedCustoms Officer
- 1999The Murder of Stephen LawrenceUncle
- 1996The Final Passage
- 1996Secrets & LiesHortense's Brother
- 1996Lord of MisruleTim
- 1995The SmithsPoliceman
- 1995Welcome II the TerrordomeOfficer Bovell / Slave Hand
- 1993Wall of SilenceDS Ibbotsen
- 1992Running LateDriver 3
- 1991The Body BeautifulYoung Man
- 1990When Love DiesRichard
- 1989Teams from Hell
- 1988Thin AirJoe Jeffries
- 1987Playing AwayStuart
- 1984Driving AmbitionBill
- 1981Burning an IllusionNat West
- 1980BabylonSpark