Vas Blackwood

Acting

Vas Blackwood

Born 1962-10-19 · England, UK

Vasanth Blackwood is a British television and film actor. Blackwood played Lenny Henry's sidekick Winston Churchill in The Lenny Henry Show (1987) and David Sinclair in Casualty (1996–97). Since playing Rory Breaker in the hit film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) he has had a number of film roles, including Mean Machine (2001), 9 Dead Gay Guys (2002) and Creep (2004). In 2005 he appeared in A Bear's Tail, a spin off of Bo' Selecta!. He also made an appearance as Lennox Gilbey in Only Fools and Horses. In 2008 he did voiceover work for Fable II on the Xbox 360 and PC. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Vas Blackwood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels poster
8.1

A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

1998

Mean Machine poster
6.3

Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.

Mean Machine

2001

Creep poster
6.0

Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets

Creep

2004

Hitmen poster
4.0

Michael Hero, a powerful CEO, seeks vengeance for the murder of his grandson by offering a one-million-dollar bounty for the assassination of his grandson's accidental killers, attracting the world's leading assassins to the task at hand.

Hitmen

2023

Fanged Up poster
5.2

A young rogue is thrown into prison for the weekend, unaware that the guards are blood-sucking vampires and the inmates are their victims

Fanged Up

2017

We Still Steal the Old Way poster
5.7

The explosive follow-up to We Still Kill The Old Way (2014). Regarded as the best in the business, The Archer Gang is an aging criminal outfit who carry out a daring robbery, but are caught mid-heist. They are sentenced to do time in Britain's toughest prison. Once inside, they encounter their old nemesis Slick Vic Farrow (Billy Murray) who is intent on murdering the gang. The old-school criminals need to use all their wits to stage a daring escape, while dodging Slick Vic, and setting in motion a chain of events which leads to an explosive prison riot.

We Still Steal the Old Way

2017

The Escapist poster
5.8

Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, but the evil Ricky kills Valerie anyway. Their baby is saved, and later Barnes is arrested and sentenced to life in the maximum security prison, Sullen Voe. Denis fakes his own suicide, then assaults a police car in order to get himself arrested and sent to prison with the intention of tracking down and killing Ricky Barnes. He does not reveal his true name and is called John "What" by the prisoners and guards. Denis escapes from successive prisons, forcing his eventual transfer to Sullen Voe. When he reaches his objective, Ricky Barnes schedules a confrontation, but things do not quite turn out the way Denis had expected.

The Escapist

2002

Original Gangster poster
5.6

The stoic chronicles of Castor, orphaned as a child, forced to survive in the wild and his colorful journey through the criminal underworld of London.

Original Gangster

2020

The Holiday Hitman poster
NR

Hitman Hank Carter is trying to save his marriage with the perfect family Christmas. Unfortunately for him, a hit has been put on his head — and a gang of festive bounty hunters will stop at nothing to collect the payday.

The Holiday Hitman

Red Devil poster
5.5

An intertwining tale of sex, drugs, rock and woe. Lives criss-cross and converge thanks to the most addictive drug in human history, Red Devil—which also happens to be the title of Savvas D. Michael’s tale of sex, drugs, and guns. An anonymous voice at the start of the film warns, “Once you’ve tasted the devil’s cum, everything else is dull and numb.” The current problem with the Red Devil drug is the supply has dried up. Addicts are so desperate for it they’re willing to kill for it…and they do.

Red Devil

2019

Daylight Robbery poster
5.5

Alex masterminds an ambitious plan to steal millions of untraceable cash that is stacked in the underground vaults of The London Exchange Bank, waiting for its last journey, Incineration. Lucky, Matty, Terry, Chubby, Norman and Jay make up his unlikely gang of robbers. Setting up their alibi, the gang check in for a flight and join in with thousands of England supporters that are part of a mass exodus to The World Cup Tournament in Germany.

Daylight Robbery

2008

The Guvnors poster
5.3

A violent thriller set amongst the clans and firms of South-East London, bringing two generations together in brutal conflict.

The Guvnors

2014

Manilla Envelopes poster
NR

Also known as The Battersea Ripper, this is a comic crime thriller set in London concerning a young girl's kidnapping and the hapless police and reporters trying to get to the truth. It has never been released to DVD and has only ever had a limited theatrical screening in 2006.

Manilla Envelopes

2006

Offender poster
6.7

Justice needs to be served at Britain's most notorious young offenders institute.

Offender

2012

Amoc poster
NR

A young woman who has recently moved from Lebanon to London attempts to unravel the startling mysteries of her dreams and whether or not they could be reality.

Amoc

2017

One Love poster
5.4

Kassa a free-wheelin rasta man, falls for a straight laced gospel singer Serena, when they both meet as they enter a music contest. Serena's father the pastor forbids her to see him and wants her to marry one of his church members. Meanwhile the record boss organizing the contest, tries to get Kassa's band to sign to his label on his terms not theirs. By using heavy tactics, he pushes the band to fight back.

One Love

2003

Sumotherhood poster
5.2

Riko and Kane have got it all: big dreams, no respect and a fifteen grand debt. Could things get any worse? Yes! So, it’s time to man up and finally be taken serious as “Roadmen”. Once putting their heads together on various ways to make some money, they decide to rob a megastar in a nightclub toilet and hold up the local bank but things inevitably don’t go to plan!

Sumotherhood

2023

A Gangster's Kiss poster
NR

For as long as Jack can remember, he and Danny have been friends, and Danny has always gotten Jack into trouble. He's had a few brushes with the law and blows up half a high street before deciding to turn to acting. Everything is going well until Jack lands his first feature film role and Danny agrees to shadow 'the family'. Jack soon realizes he is way over his head with deadly and hilarious consequences.

A Gangster's Kiss

2024

The Phantom Warrior poster
3.8

The origin story of the masked vigilante, Nemesis Knight. A new breed of superhero for a changing world. From young feral orphan to deadly crusader, balancing the equilibrium between good and evil. She wears the Mask of Dionysus, given to her as a gift by The God of The Underworld, Hades as she rides her black horse named Zeus, armed with her trusted rifle and sidearm strapped to her leg, ferociously sending criminals to the other side!

The Phantom Warrior

2024

Mercenaries poster
4.3

Andy Marlow, an ex British S.A.S serviceman turned mercenary, is sent into the Balkans after a military coup has arisen to rescue a U.S ambassador and his aide.

Mercenaries

2011

Rollin' with the Nines poster
4.7

Too Fine and his friends Finny, Pushy and Rage hope to set up a successful urban underground garage...

Rollin' with the Nines

2006

Tales from the Trap poster
NR

In the heart of London's Trenchtown Estate, power isn't given - it's taken. Slick, the visionary behind the Money Hungry Gang (MHG), is building a criminal empire under the guidance of London Crime Boss, Raph. Loyalty is a fragile currency, however, and MHG expands its interests brutally into other postcode territories and war erupts with the neighbouring Green Borough Mafia (GBM). The stakes escalate beyond the streets, and the law closes in as the police attempt to close down the gang's operations.

Tales from the Trap

Bermondsey Tales: Fall of the Roman Empire poster
3.8

London crime boss Mick Roman is deathly ill, and time is running out to find a successor. With deceit, ambition and infighting on the rise, this Roman empire may be about to fall.

Bermondsey Tales: Fall of the Roman Empire

2024

The Loss Adjuster poster
5.8

Hapless Insurance Loss Adjuster - Martin Dyer - feels his life is spiralling out of control but discovers that even when you reach rock bottom, that some clouds really do have a silver lining.

The Loss Adjuster

2020