12 Facts About Louis Mahoney

Louis Felix Danner Mahoney was a Gambian-born British actor, based in Hampstead in London.

Louis Mahoney was an anti-racist activist and long-time campaigner for racial equality within the acting profession.

Louis Mahoney represented African-Asian members on the council of the actors' union, Equity, and served as joint Vice-President between 1994 and 1996.

Louis Mahoney joined the university's cricket team and played for Essex and Ilford.

Louis Mahoney helped found Performers Against Racism in the 1980s to campaign against apartheid in South Africa and was Joint Vice President of Equity between 1994 and 1996.

Louis Mahoney's films included The Plague of the Zombies, Omen III: The Final Conflict, Rise and Fall of Idi Amin, White Mischief, Cry Freedom, Shooting Fish, Wondrous Oblivion and Shooting Dogs.

Louis Mahoney featured in the Channel 4 documentary Random, and in the BBC Three drama Being Human as Leo, an aged and dying werewolf.

Louis Mahoney was a long-standing campaigner for racial equality within the acting profession, as a member of the Equity Afro-Asian Committee, founding Performers Against Racism to defend Equity policy on South Africa, and as co-creator, with Mike Phillips and Taiwo Ajai, of the UK's Black Theatre Workshop in 1976.

Louis Mahoney was married in 1971 and later divorced, and had daughters.

For decades a resident in Hampstead, London, Louis Mahoney lived on the corner of Gayton Road and Willow Road, and was a regular in local pubs.

Louis Mahoney was athletic and played cricket as a fast bowler, joining the Gentlemen of Hampstead club.

Louis Mahoney's funeral took place at Hampstead Parish, attended by his friends and community.