Vas Blackwood

Vas Blackwood
Born	Vasta Roy Blackwood (1962-10-19) 19 October 1962 London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1981–present
Relatives	Richard Blackwood (cousin)

Vasta Roy "Vas" Blackwood (born 19 October 1962) is a British 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. He also played main character Dexter in Spatz.

In 2008 he did voiceover work on the video game Fable II.

Blackwood was founder of virtual online blog Vastaman.com, which is now defunct but the site is still active. His cousin is the media personality Richard Blackwood.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Prisoners of Conscience	Boy	Episode: "Nelson Mandela"
1982	Crown Court	Noel Brown	3 episodes
1983	Angels	Kelvin	Episode: #9.12
1984	Annika	Alan	2 episodes
	Arthur's Hallowed Ground	Henry	Television film
1985	Girls on Top	Mikey	Episode: "Skankin'"
1986	Only Fools and Horses	Lennox Gilbey aka The Shadow	Episode: "The Longest Night"
	Room at the Bottom	Office Boy	2 episodes
	Scene	Caesar	Episode: "To Turn a Blind Eye"
1986–1997	Casualty	Various	5 episodes
1987–1988	The Lenny Henry Show	Winston	12 episodes
1988	Dramarama	Rick	Episode: "Just a Normal Girl"
	Blind Justice	Henry	Episode: "Crime and Punishment"
1989	The Bill	Leon Davis	Episode: "The Visit"
	In Sickness and in Health	Pele	4 episodes
1990	French and Saunders	Jazza	Episode: "Casting Agency"
	Tygo Road	Gary	6 episodes
1990–1992	Spatz	Dexter Williams	33 episodes
1994	Hale and Pace		Episode: #7.1
1995	Crown Prosecutor	Marcus Hooper	Episode: #1.5
1996	The Bill	Tyrone Lee	Episode: "Reminders"
	Thief Takers		Episode: "Remember Me"
1998	Babymother	Caesar	Television film
2002	Fun at the Funeral Parlour	Coltrane Benz	Episode: "The Balls of Doom"
2003	Rehab	Cutlass	Television film
2007–2008	My Spy Family	Des	25 episodes
2008	Me and Mi Kru	Mr. Weatherburn
2010	Me & Mi Kru	Mr. Weddy
2015	Venus vs. Mars	Victor	2 episodes
2016	BBC Comedy Feeds	Coach	Episode: "JPD"
2018	Down the Caravan	Black Harry	Television film
	Joe All Alone	Otis	2 episodes

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Tight Trousers	Roddy	Short film
1998	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Rory Breaker
2001	Mean Machine	Massive
2002	The Escapist	Vin
	9 Dead Gay Guys	Donkey-Dick Dark
2003	One Love	Scarface
	The Trouble with Men and Women	Travis
2004	Creep	George
2006	Heartbreak Hotel	Cab Driver
	The Battersea Ripper
	Rollin' with the Nines	Finny
2008	Daylight Robbery	Lucky
2011	Mercenaries	Zac
2012	Offender	Detective Boaz
	All God's Children	Mark
2013	It's a Lot	PC Declan
	White Collar Hooligan 2: England Away	The Pro
	Essex Boys Retribution	The Lawyer
2014	The Guvnors	Bill
	White Collar Hooligan 3	The Pro
	Cryptic	Meat
	The Turtle and the Sea	Tom
2015	N.O.L.A. Circus	Marvin
2016	The Comedian's Guide to Survival	Dustin Langer
	We Still Steal the Old Way	David
	LOAK		Short film
2017	A Room to Die For	Detective McQueen
	Fanged Up	Shifty
	Amoc	Mr. Benjamin
2018	Two Graves	Neville
	King of Crime	Mr. Mustaffa
2019	Red Rage	Father Barry Clifton
2020	Next Door	Harry
	The Loss Adjustor	The Pawnbroker
	Original Gangster	Bobby Bravo
	The Gift Musical	Abanaza
2023	Hitmen	Paul Ali Rahman
	The Abomination	Hercules
	Sumotherhood	PC Ian
	Longtails	The Cleaner

Animation

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016–2019	Thunderbirds Are Go	Pirate Reece	3 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Fable II	Various	Voice

External links

• Vas Blackwood at IMDb
• Vastaman Website