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Erkan Mustafa

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Erkan Mustafa
Mustafa in 2005
Born
Erkan Mustafa

(1970-05-14) 14 May 1970 (age 54)
NationalityBritish/Turkish
OccupationActor
Years active1982–present

Erkan Mustafa (born 14 May 1970) is a British actor and television presenter of Turkish Cypriot descent,[1] most noted for the part of Roland Browning in Grange Hill (BBC 1982–1987).

Other parts include "Enormous Orphan" in Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988) and "Otto" in Chef! (1991).

In 1993 Channel 4's The Word tracked him down to a friend's record shop where he was helping out. He appeared on This Morning's Grange Hill reunion in 1998. In 2005 he appeared in the reunion programme Bring Back Grange Hill.

Mustafa occasionally works in television with fellow Grange Hill star Lee MacDonald including as a presenter for E4 Music.

In October 2009, Mustafa hosted a Grange Hill cast reunion at Sound nightclub in London's Leicester Square.

He acted in The All-Nighter, a 10-minute short film released in 2018, along with Ronald Forfar and Martin Hancock.

Filmography

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Year Film Role Notes
1982–1987 Grange Hill Roland 'Roly' Browning 74 episodes
1988 Blackadder's Christmas Carol Enormous Orphan TV movie
1993 Chef! Otto 7 episodes
2005 The Bill Inquest Jury Member 1 episode
2005 Bring Back... Grange Hill Himself TV documentary
2005 18 Stone of Idiot Himself 1 episode
2008 I am Paul Baillie Paul Baillie TV documentary
2008 TV's 50 Hardest Men Himself TV documentary
2012 Celebrity Juice Himself Magazine Head
2012 and 2015 Pointless Celebrities Himself With Lee MacDonald
2012–13 Soccer A.M. Himself Hairy Strikers/Record Attempts

References

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  1. ^ Lynneallutt (19 September 2009). "Find out if an ex- Grange Hill pupil is Green Fingered". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
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