Paul Barber's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Only Fools and Horses (UK) Denzil The Invisibles (UK) Young Nick Boys from the Blackstuff (UK) Scotty Chancer (UK) Gerald Charlie (UK) Second Elec… Gangsters (UK) Malleson I Didn't Know You Cared (UK) Louis St John The Front Line (UK) Malcolm

Main Movie Roles 2006 - Dead Man's Cards 1997 - The Full Monty 1980 - The Long Good Friday

BIOGRAPHY:

Paul Barber (born Patrick Barber; 18 March 1951[1]) is an actor from Liverpool, Merseyside. In a career spanning more than 30 years, he is best known for playing Denzil in Only Fools and Horses and Horse in The Full Monty.
Barber began on the stage in the musical Hair. His first major TV role was as Sam 'Lucky' Ubootu in the 1974 ITV Playhouse production Lucky set in Liverpool and made by Granada TV. He then played the flamboyant but vicious gang boss Malleson in the off-beat BBC Birmingham-based series Gangsters from 1975 to 1978. He played Louis St John in 4 episodes of I Didn't Know You Cared, 1976-78. A later starring role was alongside Philip Whitchurch in the mid-1980s ITV comedy series 'The Brothers McGregor'.
Barber has worked extensively in British TV, such as in To the Manor Born (1979) as a Jamaican steel band musician, Minder (1980) as Willie Reynolds in episode Don't Tell Them Willie Boy Was Here, Only Fools and Horses (1981–2003), Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), Malcolm in The Front Line, and Cracker and played Greg Salter in Brookside (1994). He made a guest appearance in the first episode of The Green Green Grass - a spin-off from Only Fools And Horses. Paul was best known for his time on Only Fools And Horses and still attends conventions for the show.
In 2008 he had a small part in the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street playing a club owner called Nelson, an acquaintance of Vernon Tomlin. He appeared in Casualty on 13 August 2011 playing a Police Officer and in White Van Man as Hooky Pete in February 2012
.He had small roles in the big-screen version of Porridge (1979) and The Long Good Friday (1980). In 1991, he plays a football coach in the 'Screen One' television play, Alive and Kicking
However Barber's best known role was playing one of the stripping steelworkers in the popular 1997 film The Full Monty (1997) set in Sheffield. He reunited with Full Monty co-star Robert Carlyle and Samuel L. Jackson in the Liverpool-based crime film The 51st State (2001).
In the 2006 feature film Dead Man's Cards, Barber again returned to Merseyside playing the part of Paul, head doorman, at a Liverpool club. In Terry Pratchett's Going Postal (2010) he played a pin fanatic shop owner.


TRIVIA:

• [July 2007] He wrote a book "Foster Kid" about his experiences of a brutal and traumatic upbringing in foster and care homes in Liverpool after being orphaned at the age of seven.