Derrick Branche
{{short description|British actor}}
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Derrick Branche (born 1947) is a British actor, best known for his role in the film My Beautiful Laundrette and television roles in The Jewel in the Crown and Father Ted.
{{Infobox person
| name = Derrick Branche
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1947}}
| birth_place = Bombay, India
| occupation = Actor, guitarist
| years_active = 1979–2002
| known_for = Only When I Laugh, My Beautiful Laundrette, guitarist for The Hectics
}}
Early life and education
Branche was born in 1947 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, and educated at St. Peter's School, a boarding school for boys in Panchgani near Bombay.{{cite book|last=Blake|first=Mark|title=Is this the real life? : the untold story of Queen|year=2010|publisher=Aurum|location=London|isbn=978-1845135973|page=12|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VyBp_VEiIVYC&q=derrick+branche+bombay&pg=PA12}} Freddie Mercury was his classmate in the school, with whom he formed The Hectics, Mercury's first band, from 1959 to 1962. Branche was the band's guitarist.
Filmography
| class="wikitable"
|+ Film appearances |
| scope="col" style="width:5em;"| Year
!scope="col"| Title !scope="col"| Role !scope="col"| Notes |
|---|
| scope="row"| 1979
| Chemin-de-fer Player | |
| scope="row"| 1979
| Ahmed Zamani | |
| scope="row"| 1985
| Salim | |
| scope="row"| 1986
| Tai-Pan | Vargas | |
| scope="row"| 1987
| Terranova | |
| scope="row"| 2002
| The Wonderland Experience | Dee | (final film role) |
| class="wikitable"
|+ Television appearances |
| scope="col" style="width:5em;"| Year
!scope="col"| Title !scope="col"| Role !scope="col"| Notes |
|---|
| scope="row"| 1978
| Amagon Guard | 1 episode |
| scope="row"| 1979–1981
| Nurse Gupte | 22 episodes |
| scope="row"| 1984
| Ahmed Kasim | 6 episodes |
| scope="row"| 1988
| Chris Bell | 1 episode |
| scope="row"| 1995
| Father Ted{{IMDb name|0104382|Derrick Branche}} {{unreliable source?|date=June 2022}} | Father Jose Fernandez | 1 episode |
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Category:British male film actors
Category:British male television actors
Category:Date of birth missing (living people)