Background
He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on October 18, 1950, and emigrated to Australia with his family when he was 16.
He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on October 18, 1950, and emigrated to Australia with his family when he was 16.
He finished his education in Australia and spent 3 years there as an actor and teacher before returning to the United Kingdom to train at The Drama Studio London. He graduated from The Drama Studio London in July 1977 and has been an actor ever since.
Other film work includes London Boulevard and Hideo Nakata"s Chatroom. His many television appearances include: Casualty, The Boot Street Band, Spitting Image, Situation Critical, Jenny"s War, Keeping Mum, Harry"s Mad, Time Gentlemen Please, Pay & Display, Paul Dreams of Bette, The Scarlet and the Black and Shane. He was the original Mr.
Muscle in the long-running series of Mr.
Muscle television commercials which were shown around the world, and he has also made television commercials for Holland, Germany, Ireland and Belgium. He has appeared in theatres all around the United Kingdom in plays including A Midsummer Night"s Dream, A Christmas Carol, Treasure Island, Alice in Wonderland, The Winter"s Tale, Salad Days, Bell, Book and Candle, The Gingerbread Manitoba, Aladdin, Sistema Único de Saúde, The Country Wife, The Wizard of Oz and Dreams of Anne Frank.
He also toured the United Kingdom and France in the mime show Prufrock. In the West End of London he appeared in Number Sex Please, We"re British at the Strand Theatre, in The Arabian Nights at the Arts Theatre and in The Blue Angel with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Gielgud Theatre.
He has been in 10 plays at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon, London, where he lives.
Gerald has also appeared at many conventions and shows, meeting lots of Star Wars fans around the globe. In 2008, he co-founded the Star Wars Outer Rim Alliance (SWORA), an international alliance of many Star Wars fan groups from all around the world. He attended the Cinefan Festival in Úbeda (Spain) as well in 2015, where he narrated the introduction from Conan the Barbarian before the Symphonical Orchestra of Jaén performed the well-known theme of the movie.