Gary Love

Gary Joseph Love (born 26 November 1964) 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 series Soldier Soldier, 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.

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

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: 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)