Gary Joseph Love (born 26 November 1964)^[1] is a British actor and film director. He is best known for playing the role of Sergeant Tony Wilton in the British Army inspired award-winning^[2] series Soldier Soldier,^[3] and as Jimmy McClaren in Grange Hill in 1984. He is also a director and has directed episodes of London's Burning, Casualty and Waking The Dead.^[4]

Love was born in Kensington, London, and attended the Barbara Speake Stage School in Acton, West London.

Filmography

As actor

• 1984: Grange Hill as Jimmy McClaren
• 1986: Starting Out as Mick Brown (2 episodes)
• 1988 "A Question Of Style" (Austin Rover salesman training video)
• 1988: Jack the Ripper as Derek

Never the Twain as Postman

• 1989: Screen Two as Alan Loader (Here Is the News)

Birds of a Feather as Pool Man (Just Visiting)

Blackeyes as Colin (2 episodes)

• 1990: The Krays as Teddy 'Steve' Smith
• 1991: Murder Most Horrid as Constable Williams ("The Case of the Missing")

The Bill as Mike Gibbs ("Thicker Than Water")

• 1993: You, Me and It as Gary
• 1991–1994: Soldier Soldier as Sgt Tony Wilton
• 1997: Loved by You as Lander
• 2000–01: Paranoid as Ned
• 2000: Essex Boys as Detective
• 2004: Fallen as DI Tom Beckett
• 2005: The Russian Dolls as Edward

Stoned as Jeff

As director

• 1993: Come Snow, Come Blow (TV)
• 1996: Masculine Mescaline (short film)
• 1998: London's Burning (Episode 11.8)
• 1999: Harbour Lights (Baywatch, Muckraker)
• 1997–2000: Casualty (Out Of Control, Love Me Tender, Eye Spy, Love Over Gold Part 1 & 2, Seize the Night)
• 2001: Waking The Dead (Every Breath You Take Part 1 & 2)
• 2005: MIT (Episode 2.1, 2.2 & 2.4)
• 2007: Sugarhouse
• 2010: The Bill (Keep Her Talking, Suffer in Silence, Who Dares Wins, Death Knock)
• 2015: The Following (Exposed)