About Gary Whelan
Born 1953. Gary Whelan is an Irish actor and television actor.
Acting He has portrayed several roles in the police force. He has twice featured in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, once as DS Terry Rich from 1985 to 1987, and later as DS Paul Kemmit in the spin-off EastEnders: Perfectly Frank in 2003. He played DS Terry Amson with Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect (1991), until 2014 when he sold it to a pub chain for £4.5 million and moved to Dublin.
He currently owns the Walrus pub in Brighton and the Dalkey Duck pub in Dublin. and The Wild Duck in Temple Bar, as well as The Flying Duck and SMASH IT burgers.
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Irish actor
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Gary Whelan was born in 1953 in Dublin.
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Gary Whelan is an actor and television actor.
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