Jesse Birdsall

Acting

Jesse Birdsall

Born 1963-02-13

Jesse Birdsall (born 13 February 1963) is an English actor, known for his role as Marcus Tandy in the BBC1 soap opera Eldorado, his role in the adventure series Bugs (1995–1999) as Nick Beckett, his role in Footballers' Wives as football manager, Roger Webb between 2004 and 2006, and his roles as Fraser Black in Hollyoaks and as villain Ron Gregory in a few episodes of The Bill. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jesse Birdsall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Quadrophenia poster
7.0

Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.

Quadrophenia

1979

No artwork available
7.5

A former CIA agent is forced by crooked agents of the government to pose as a notorious smuggler of the Tangier Straits who happens to be a stiff

Tangiers

1982

Revolution poster
5.4

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.

Revolution

1985

Wish You Were Here poster
6.4

In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age. At sixteen, she becomes more exhibitionist and seeks out sexual encounters challenging the prevailing lower-middle class attitudes to sex.

Wish You Were Here

1987

Bosses From Hell poster
NR

John Cleese training video about bosses.

Bosses From Hell

1989

Remembrance poster
4.5

A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.

Remembrance

1982

Getting It Right poster
6.8

Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it there are three women interested in him. Lady Minerva Munday has a casual way of life and lives in a basement, Joan is an over-sexed millionairess, married to a Greek architect. But Gavin prefers the ugly assistant in the barbershop.

Getting It Right

1989

Talkin' Blues poster
NR

John and Helen have moved into a house in Brixton, sourh London. John then gets to know a couple of his neighbours, his next door neighbour, who is black, and a white neighbour and his young leather-clad son.

Talkin' Blues

1977

The Pebble and the Boy poster
6.0

John Parker, a 19 year old from Manchester, embarks on a journey to Brighton, the spiritual home of the Mods, on an old Lambretta scooter left to him by his father.

The Pebble and the Boy

2021

We'll Support You Evermore poster
7.8

A father is intent on finding the truth as to how his soldier son met his death while serving in Northern Ireland.

We'll Support You Evermore

1985

Walter and June poster
6.7

Sequel to the TV film "Walter". In the United States, the two films have been released together on DVD as a package, called "Loving Walter".

Walter and June

1983

Bloody Kids poster
6.5

Two boys pull a Saturday night prank on the police in a seaside British town.

Bloody Kids

1980

Beyond Bedlam poster
5.1

An experiment gone awry places a neurologist and a homicide detective in a psychopath's nightmarish world.

Beyond Bedlam

1994

Birth of a Nation poster
7.8

A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.

Birth of a Nation

1983

The Trial of Lord Lucan poster
6.0

An imagined trial of a man who, in 1974 London, is thought to have killed a woman he mistook for his wife in order to regain custody of his children. He disappeared the day after the killing and was never found.

The Trial of Lord Lucan

1994

Essex Boys: Law of Survival poster
4.3

Essex has been the central hub for many famous criminal activities. For generations Essex Boys have ruled the streets of Essex and East London in their underworld empires. Many people thought this ended in a Range Rover in 1995. They were wrong... Danny - an ex hooligan is driven back into a life of crime after his world is turned upside down on the streets of Essex.

Essex Boys: Law of Survival

2015

Teams from Hell poster
NR

John Cleese training video about teams.

Teams from Hell

1989

A Sudden Wrench poster
NR

Christine takes up an unusual line of work and proves she is not just another bored housewife.

A Sudden Wrench

1982

Shadey poster
4.4

A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film.

Shadey

1985

Riot on Redchurch Street - The Director's Cut poster
NR

A rock and roll love triangle that ignites Anglo-Muslim racial tension in East London. Now there's a riot on Redchurch Street that can only end in blood-fire and redemption.

Riot on Redchurch Street - The Director's Cut

2025

The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy poster
7.0

The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy is a very funny spaghetti western-Peckinpah-Leone pastiche that sees Michael Elphick's charlatan elixir seller, Neil Morrissey and Martin Clunes as the notorious and the not so notorious Irish bounty hunters all in pursuit of Kid Divine (Jesse Birdsall) a baby faced killer with a $25,000 price tag on his head.

The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy

1992

Shall I Be Mother? poster
NR

Susan and Jenny are aged 13 and 14 and in care. Jenny's mother has died, Susan hasn't seen hers for years. Both influence the close, stormy relationship that develops between the two girls.

Shall I Be Mother?

1983