---
name: "Gary Cady"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gary-cady"
fi1m_id: "gary-cady"
imdb_id: "nm0128328"
tmdb_id: 189425
wikidata_id: "Q3758475"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "14 September 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 63
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T21:17:19.170540+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Gary Cady

## Identity

Gary Cady

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gary-cady
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gary-cady
- **IMDb ID:** nm0128328
- **TMDB ID:** 189425
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3758475
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3758475, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128328/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/189425

Actor. Born 14 September 1959 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 14 September 1959, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
- **Active:** 1986–1989
- **Average Fi1m score:** 63, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3758475, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128328/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/189425

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Erik the Viking*](https://film.one/film/erik-the-viking.md) (43)

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## Biography

Gary Cady is a British actor born on 14 September 1959 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. He began his screen career in the early 1980s with roles in television series such as *Brass* (1983) and *Leaving* (1984–1985).

His film appearances include *Mona Lisa* (1986) as a hotel waiter and *Erik the Viking* (1989) as Keitel Blacksmith. Television credits encompass *Doctor Who* (1985), *Red Dwarf* (1988 and 2012), *Goodnight Sweetheart* (1993), *Jonathan Creek* (1997) and *EastEnders* (2020).

On stage, he performed in *Cyrano de Bergerac* at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London in 1992. In 1997 he opened the Belair Restaurant in Dulwich, London.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, it.wikipedia.org, pl.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Erik the Viking* (1989), Fi1m 43, as Keitel Blacksmith — [page](https://film.one/film/erik-the-viking.md)
- *Mona Lisa* (1986), Fi1m 83, as Hotel Waiter — [page](https://film.one/film/mona-lisa.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Hot Hot Hot* (2011), as Knut
- *Lords and Luddites: Making 'The Mark of the Rani'* (2006), Actor
- *Menace* (2002), series, as Jonathan Hay
- *Footballers' Wives* (2002), series, as William Woodfield
- *Seeing Red* (2000), as Peter
- *Shergar* (1999), as S.A.S. Captain Kirkpatrick
- *Melissa* (1997), series, as Don Page
- *Jonathan Creek* (1997), series, as Justin Mallory — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/jonathan-creek.md)
- *The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes* (1994), series, as Douglas Maberley
- *Goodnight Sweetheart* (1993), series, as Rock Justice
- *Peak Practice* (1993), series, as Jim Barnes
- *To Be the Best* (1992), series, as Philip
- *As Time Goes By* (1992), series, as Gary
- *I promessi sposi* (1989), series, as Don Rodrigo
- *Birds of a Feather* (1989), series, as Brett
- *Erik the Viking* (1989), as Keitel Blacksmith — Fi1m 43, [page](https://film.one/film/erik-the-viking.md)
- *The Deceivers* (1988), as Lt. Maunsell
- *Red Dwarf* (1988), series, as Dominator Zlurth — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/red-dwarf.md)
- *Journey's End* (1988), as 2nd Lt. Hibbert
- *Siesta* (1987), as Roger
- *Blat* (1987), as Rupert
- *Queenie* (1987), series, as Lucien Chambrun
- *Mona Lisa* (1986), as Hotel Waiter — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/mona-lisa.md)
- *Three Up, Two Down* (1985), series, as Steve Kelly
- *Not Quite Paradise* (1985), as Steve
- *Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani* (1985), as Luke Ward
- *Fairly Secret Army* (1984), series, as Paul Truscott
- *Leaving* (1984), series, as Matthew Ford
- *Sherlock Holmes* (1984), series, as Douglas Maberley
- *Brass* (1983), series, as Matthew Fairchild

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