Terry Sue-Patt is a British actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 best known for the role of Benny Green in Grange Hill

Grange Hill

Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television...

(BBC

BBC

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, 1978–1982); his character was the first pupil seen on screen.
He got the part, after scouted playing football in the local park

Park

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.

Patt started his acting career with small parts in various Children's Film Foundation

Children's Film Foundation

The Children's Film Foundation was a non-profit-making organisation which made films for children in the United Kingdom, typically running for about 55 minutes. It was founded in 1951. For 30 years it was subsidised by the Eady Levy - a tax on box office receipts, but this was abolished in 1985...

 productions. He has also made appearances in General Hospital

General Hospital (UK TV series)

General Hospital is a British daytime soap opera produced by ATV which ran on ITV from 1972 to 1979. It was modelled after the American drama of the same name....

(ATV

Associated TeleVision

Associated Television, often referred to as ATV, was a British television company, holder of various licences to broadcast on the ITV network from 24 September 1955 until 00:34 on 1 January 1982...

), Jackanory

Jackanory

Jackanory is a long-running BBC children's television series that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. The show was first transmitted on 13 December 1965, the first story being the fairy-tale Cap o' Rushes read by Lee Montague. Jackanory continued to be broadcast until 24 March 1996,...

(BBC), in 1990 he played a gunman in the Channel 4 Desmond's

Desmond's

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and the BBC Schools programme, Scene

Scene (UK TV series)

Scene is a British television anthology drama series made by the BBC for teenagers. Featuring plays on topical issues, sometimes of a controversial nature, and by leading contemporary playwrights, programs were originally broadcast to a school audience as part of the BBC Schools strand. Dramas from...

(1990s). Patt played the role of Yusef in Alan Clarke

Alan Clarke

Alan Clarke was a television and film director, producer and writer, born in Wallasey, Merseyside, England.Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, including work for the famous play strands The Wednesday Play and Play for Today...

's The Firm (1989).

He picture appears on the single cover of Tom Robinson Band

Tom Robinson Band

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"Up Against the Wall".

External links

• "Terry Sue Pratt", Grange Hill annuals/TV archives