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Paul Usher (born 20 April 1961) is a British actor. [1] He is known for his roles as Barry Grant in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside and Des Taviner in the ITV drama The Bill. [2] [3] In 2019, he began appearing in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Danny Hardcastle. [4]
26 de dez. de 2022 · 7. 1.1K views 1 year ago. First in a compilation series I've put together highlighting Brookside's legendary Barry Grant. Starting from episode 1, these are the early days of the young Barry...
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Barry Robert Grant was the son of Sheila Grant and Matty Nolan, the assumed son of Bobby Grant, the ex-husband of Pam, the half brother of Stephen Nolan, Joe Nolan, Maureen Nolan, Karen Grant, Damon Grant and Claire Grant, and the father of Steven Pearson.
Barry was Brookside's first ever villainous character however for the first few years of the show Barry was more or less a "scally" whom committed petty crimes along with friends Terry Sullivan and Jimmy Corkhill. Barry was embroiled in with big time gangsters by the end of the 80s that of Tommy McArdle and Sizzler it was after these encounters with the big time gangsters Barry himself started to rise as a gangster.
After returning in August 1990, Barry became the main businessman of Brookside Close buying many properties and buissness's however Barry also committed more heinous crimes during this reign his crimes ranged from Drug dealing, Arson and Murder when in October 1991, Barry murdered Sue and her child Daniel Sullivan in order to keep his affair a secret from Terry. However a he confessed in February 1992.
Barry was also responsible for the deaths of both Simon Howe whom Barry purposely left to die in a gassed out car and orchestrated the death of Jack Michealson during his final appearance and the final episode.
1959—1982: Backstory
Barry was born on the 26th June 1959 and was raised by Bobby and Sheila Grant. Initially raised their three children Karen and Damon on a run-down Liverpool council estate. Barry, the eldest, was always the black sheep of the family. Barry was expelled from school at age 15 for attacking a group of bullies who constantly picked on and bullied his best friend Terry Sullivan by 1988 it is revealed that Barry Grant's real father is in fact Matty Nolan, a family friend of the Grants: Sheila had a one night stand with Bobby's best friend Matty Nolan just before she married.
1982—1989: Early Years
Barry started out as a young 'scally' who, together with an often reluctant best friend Terry, was always looking for easy ways to make money. Such scams consisted of torching his Jaguar in order to claim off the insurance, stealing copper from building sites, and buying and selling stolen items. Barry was always the apple of his mother Sheila's eye but had a less sturdy relationship with his father Bobby who was eventually revealed to be his stepfather. Although Barry was usually on the wrong side of the law, he was shown to be the more respectable of the Grant brothers in early episodes. In contrast to Damon's hot-headed recklessness, Barry was calm and responsible and made amends with the Collins after Damon vandalised their house. Barry was hard-working and smart in contrast to Damon. After Barry was stabbed in December 1982 the doctor told him to stay off work, however shortly after Bobby was out-on-strike and the Grants struggled to pay their mortgage. Despite doctors advice Barry went back to work so that his father would not have to suffer the indignity of crossing his own picket line. In the early episodes Barry strikes up a friendship with the recently widowed Petra Taylor the two run away for a holiday in the Isle of Man together where Petra miscarries. Barry becomes irritated by Petra's depression after the loss of her husband and unborn baby and steals charity money from Sheila before heading to London. Petra later commits suicide and Marrie Jackson blames Barry for her suicide. After losing his building job after being caught stealing materials Barry and Terry becomes involved with shady gangster, Tommy McArdle, McArdle drops by the close unannounced to get Barry and Terry to do a job for him requesting, for instance, they valet his car to rid the back seat of what McArdle described as 'pig's blood'. In a stronger storyline, (and one of Brooksides first sensational ones) under instructions from Tommy the two provide an alibi for the perpetrators of an armed robbery. Local fireman and neighbour George Jacksonis convicted for this crime instead, the key evidence being that he (foolishly) drew a map of the warehouse for McArdle, who used him for his knowledge of the place. In another scam, Barry and Terry enter in a counterfeit video deal with McArdle, (which also sees Barry briefly involved with Lucy Collins - daughter of residents Paul and Annabelle). This particular job goes wrong for Barry; despite being careful to not cross McArdle it ends in the beating of Barry and Terry within an inch of their lives in the tool hire shop that they run. Barry typically makes a quick recovery, but Terry is seriously hurt and spends a long time in hospital and for a while afterwards walks with a limp. The McArdle beating one is too much for Barry to try to get revenge on and so sensing he has no friends or future in Liverpool, Barry takes a job as a shop fitter, a job that takes him all around the country. Barry also got involved with another gangster, Sizzler. Sizzler, a southerner living on The Wirral. 'owned' Barry, after he found out that not only had he slept with his wife, but had soiled his favourite bathrobe in the process. So after agreeing to work off his debt to Sizzler, Barry would do various odd jobs for him, such as when Sizzler wanted to buy a chain of amusement arcades, but the current lady owner refused to sell. Sizzler wanted Barry to kidnap her dog, cut of its head and send it to her in an effort to get her to change her mind. Barry started to envied the lifestyles of Tommy and Sizzler and realised that crime, does indeed, pay. Sheila and Barry were eventually evicted from the family home, and the house was repossessed by the bank. Sheila moved in with Billy Corkhill and later they started a relationship together while Barry lived rough in a Volkswagen camper van for a while. While he is homeless he and Sinbad sell toy seals as presents for Christmas 1988. They later however find them to be poisonous and spend Christmas Day trying to steal them back from children to whom they have been sold. At the end of 1989 Barry left the area once again for some work in Newcastle.
1990—1995: Villainous Years
Barry returned in August 1990 for the wedding of Terry and Sue. Terry and Sue allowed Barry to lodge in their house during this time. Whilst Barry had been away he had been running a series of illegal warehouse raves. This turned out to be a real money-spinner and he planned to do the same thing in Liverpool. Following a couple of successful warehouse raves in the city, Barry planned the biggest rave yet, which required financial backing which came in the form of two cockney brothers. Together they organised a big rave night which didn't go according to plan when Barry discovered one of the brothers dealing drugs to kids in the toilets. Barry, never a fan of drugs, decided this meant the brothers should forfeit their share of the profits and made a quick escape with the bag full of notes. The brothers were soon on Barry's trail, and after seeing Barry with Sue and her little boy Daniel, they assumed it was Barry's son and so kidnapped him demanding the money back for his safe return. Barry successfully negotiated his release, but the brothers exacted further revenge by locking Barry in an industrial freezer on Chrismas day 1990. Barry made an ‘igloo’ out of frozen turkey boxes and was pulled out semi-conscious by Terry. After a few days in hospital Barry discharged himself, drove to London and planted a shotgun in one of the brothers cars before tipping off the police. Barry returned to Liverpool in high sprits to see in the new year. Amidst all this Barry still found time to sort out Joey Godden. Goddon had just been released from Prison for the murder of Jimmy and Billy Corkhill's brother, Frankie Corkill. Goddon was hell-bent on giving the Corkhill family grief, threatening them, and dishing out general abuse. As the weeks and months went on, the war between the two families was escalating out of control but Goddon's big mistake was to threaten Barry's mother, Sheila. Barry drove to Goddon's house, smashed through his back door and shoved a shotgun in his face, threatening to blow his brains out if he ever went anywhere near the Corkhill family again. During 1991 Barry made friends with a millionaire property developer, and Barry ended up 'acquiring' a new development being built near the Close. The development would consist of 4 shop units and 4 flats above. This was Barry's big chance to 'go legit'. Barry was unable to sustain a long-term relationship with women. He could gets girls into bed, but when they found out his true character they soon left him. Barry was jealous of the relationship Terry had with Sue. Barry was adamant that Terry could do better than Sue, and so he sets out to destroy her. After months of being deeply unpleasant to her, Barry turns on the charm and sleeps with her. Sue was wracked with guilt and threatened to tell Terry the truth. So, in October 1991, Barry pushed Sue and her young child Danny from the scaffolding on Brookside parade resulting in both their deaths. Barry has always maintained this event was an accident and he was only trying to put the ‘frighteners’ on her to stop her telling Terry their secret. Nevertheless, Barry made sure the finger of guilt was firmly pointed towards lawyer Graeme Curtis, a colleague of Sue's who had an unhealthy infatuation with her and had been stalking her. Graeme was charged and found guilty of the double murder and while in prison either took his own life or was himself murdered for being a child killer. Barry later confessed his crime to a priest, Meanwhile, Barry rented out his shops and flats. One of the flats was rented to a mysterious Asian businessman who paid well above the market rate for the flat in return for Barry not asking any questions and not keeping records about the tenants. With secure metal doors in place and comings and goings throughout the night, curiosity soon got the better of him and Barry broke in to discover the printing of counterfeit bank notes. By February 1992 Barry was getting tired of Fran, especially when she began to turn the screw and realised it was Barry who murdered Sue and Danny and not Graham. A desperate Barry took Fran hostage at gunpoint. Knowing he was going on the run, Barry broke into the upstairs flat and helped himself to £25,000 of counterfeit money. Barry was wracked with guilt over what he had done to Sue and Danny, and let Fran go. He took Terry to a deserted beach and revealed that he had slept with Sue and murdered her and Danny. Barry gave Terry a loaded shotgun with the command "Do your own justice". This episode was left on a cliffhanger ending that revealed in the next episode that Terry couldn't bring himself to kill Barry. He decided that he wanted him alive so he would have to live every day knowing what he did and so Barry fled to Spain. In December 1992, a young lady by the name of Joe Halsall was opening a nightclub on the parade with Barry as her business partner. Joe gave Terry a package, which contained two flight tickets to Spain and a large amount in pesetas. Terry took Sinbad along for the ride. When they arrived in Spain he met up with Barry, who wanted to know if it was safe for him to return home as he was opening a night club with Joe. After getting the nod from Terry, Barry returned to Liverpool a few days later. The first thing Barry did upon returning was to torch Jimmy Corkhill's shop, Kowboy Kutz. Jimmy had been squatting in one of Barry's shop units and could not come up with the back-rent. Jimmy refused to vacate the premises, knowing he had time on his hands for the matter to be resolved in the courts. However Barry decided to smoke him out and destroy his stock. Barry set fire to his stock and immediately called the fire brigade. However, unbeknown to Barry, the power had been cut off in the shop and Jimmy was heating the place via portable gas heaters, which exploded and destroyed the entire front of the shop, much to Barry's horror and with Jimmy out of business, Barry felt slightly guilty that he had destroyed his livelihood so sent him on a course and gave him a job on the doors of the new nightclub, La Luz. Terry later asked Barry for £500, and while Barry was trying to question him on what it was for Terry just demanded the money. Barry followed him to a house, and was just about to drive off when he discovered Fran emerge carrying Barry's offspring. Barry demanded access to his son, but Fran wanted to make sure that the boy was never to find out whom his dad was. Terry gave Fran the entire proceeds of Sue's life insurance policy allowing her to move far away. Barry has never been able to track down his son, which was the ultimate revenge from Terry. Meanwhile, Joe allowed the La Luz nightclub to become notorious for all the wrong reasons, allowing drug dealing and prostitution to operate within the club and therefore the partnership between Barry and Joe never ran smoothly. Wanting Barry out of the partnership, Joe got her hired heavies to force Barry to sign the club completely over to her. Barry planned to torch the club for the insurance payout but was attacked by Jimmy Corkhill when he revealed to him that he had done it before to his shop. Joe wanted Barry out of her way for good and so invited him to the club to talk about the future. Meanwhile, Joe's hired heavy, wearing Barry's coat and stealing his car, runs down Jimmy Corkhill. Barry is arrested for attempted murder of Jimmy. Just when it looks like it's all over for Barry, the charges are dropped and he cautiously returns to the club, only to find his friend from Spain, Oscar Dean sitting behind the desk. Oscar has ousted Jo and bought the club himself. He immediately offers Barry a 60-40 partnership and hands the day-to-day management over to him. Terry finds happiness again with a young Polish woman named Anna Wolska. Anna was an illegal immigrant and worked as a prostitute out of La Luz when Joe had control of the club. Anna was desperate to stay in the UK and was willing to pay a man to marry her. Anna and Terry became very close and Terry offered to marry her to ensure she could remain in the UK, however Anna didn't want to ruin her good friendship with Terry and so declined. Barry got wind of this arrangement and offered his own deal to Anna – he would marry her if she would have his baby. (Barry was very desperate for a child of his own). Although she agreed to the deal initially, it wasn't long before she regretted it and had genuinely fallen in love with Terry. Terry and Anna plan a secret wedding and a new life away from Liverpool and she double-crosses Barry by pretending the deal is still on but is secretly taking the pill. Barry is not a man to cross and when he discovers that Anna has been deceiving him, he hits her across the face and reports her to immigration. She was arrested and deported just before she and Terry could marry. This event particularly broke Terry which led to his involvement with a religious cult headed by Simon Howe. The cult were squatting in number 5 Brookside Close, which Simon would call his ‘church’ and would hold regular meetings. Terry gets deeper and deeper into the cult as Barry tries to get him to see sense. Simon wanted Terry to buy the house so they could have a permanent place of worship, but before this happens Barry Grant buys the house. Barry soon becomes impatient with Simon as he wants him out of his house, and to make things worse Simon and his followers start preaching about the perils of drinking and partying while handing out leaflets outside Barry's night club. Barry decides to stop Simon once and for all, and with gun in hand, breaks into the house but is over powered, gagged, tied up and held captive in one of the bedrooms. Terry starts preaching to him from the bible, but Barry doesn't want to know. Nobody around the Close thinks anything of Barry's sudden absence, and they just assume that he has gone away on one of his many mysterious trips ‘down south’. Eventually Simon decides that since they can't have the house then no one can, and he builds a home-made bomb to destroy the house. They release Barry but the bomb detonates before the three can exit the house. Barry and Terry are not seriously injured, but Simon ends up in hospital fighting for his life. Terry keeps his faith and stays by Simon's bedside as his injuries heal. When Simon recovers he moves into a flat with Terry. Barry, not happy that Simon has not been charged with causing the explosion, breaks into the flats and attacks Simon, saying "I’ve killed before, and if you don’t disappear you'll be next". With this Simon goes into hiding behind the Close using a few cardboard boxes for his home later Simon tells Terry that their work is complete and its time to join the other side. They steal Barry's car and drive into the woods, attaching a hose from the exhaust into the car, so that with both doors and windows shut the fumes will kill them both. However Barry arrives just in time to pull Terry from the fume filled car but leaves Simon behind to die. Terry ends up with a serious mental disorder and is sectioned under the mental health act and taken to a psychiatric hospital. Barry refuses to let his mate waste away in an institution and illegally smuggles him abroard to have him nursed back to health by Oscar Dean's wife in Spain. Barry later left Brookside close in a hurry in March 1995, when he got word of the whereabouts of Fran and his son. Finding his son was Barry's main personal agenda in life and despite the fact he was currently engaged to be married he didn't plan to stick around. All that was made of Barry's departure was a disembodied hand seen hurriedly packing a suitcase and a rear shot of Barry's car speeding off out of the close. For the next few years Barry didn't return to Liverpool, his presence in the show was still mentioned though and he arranged for his shops, flats and nightclub to be managed by Terry, who eventually sold the club to dodgy Asian businessman Dil Parma. Terry then went on to sell rest of the complex to commercial developers. Barry eventually settled in Blaydon, Tyne and Wear off screen.
•When Paul Usher left the programme in 1995, scripts had to be hastily rewritten. Most of his dialogue was given to Mick Johnson, while a disembodied hand was seen packing a suitcase.
•Barry was one of only two characters to appear in both the first and the last episodes of Brookside, along with the Milkman (played by John Whitehall), however Barry is the only regular character to do so.
Barry Grant is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, played by Paul Usher. The character debuted on-screen during the first episode of Brookside, broadcast on 2 November 1982. Barry is one of the show's original characters and the only character to appear in the first and final episodes of Brookside.
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