Paul Barber

Paul Barber is an English actor with more than 45 years of screen and stage work behind him. He started out in the stage musical Hair, and his first major television role came in Lucky, a 1974 ITV Playhouse production. He then played the gang boss Malleson in Gangsters from 1975 to 1976. His best known television role is Denzil in Only Fools and Horses, and he also appeared twice in Coronation Street. On film he is best known as Horse, one of the stripping steelworkers in The Full Monty (1997), while his other big screen credits include Porridge (1979), The Long Good Friday (1980), The 51st State (2001), Renegades (2022) and The Baby in the Basket (2025). He has worked widely in British television, with parts in Minder, Boys from the Blackstuff, Cracker and Casualty.