Biography
Larrington Walker was a Jamaican-born British actor. He was born on 1 August 1946 in Kingston, Jamaica, and emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1956. He appeared in film and television from the 1970s onwards.
His credits include Koop's Father in Human Traffic (1999), Ezra in the BBC series The Chinese Detective (1981–1982), and roles in Death in Paradise (2018), Taboo (2017), Finding Your Feet (2017), Vicious (2015), Black Earth Rising (2018) and Upstart Crow (2016). On stage he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared in the 2014 production of Rudy’s Rare Records with Lenny Henry.
Walker died on 3 September 2017 in Guadeloupe while filming an episode of Death in Paradise; the episode was later dedicated to his memory.
