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Paul Bown
Born (1957-10-11) 11 October 1957 (age 67)
Occupationactor

Paul Bown (born 11 October 1957 in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) is an English actor.

Bown is best known for playing a leading role in the Granada Television comedy Watching (1987–93) and more recently as Philip Reid in BBC's Holby City. He starred as an AA Patrolman in the BBC television series The Last Salute in the late 1990s. Bown also appeared in November 2007 in acclaimed British drama Britz. He appeared in the first episode of Mr. Bean as "The Student". He was in an episode of New Tricks on 25 August 2008. In 2009 he appeared briefly as Mike Bamber, chairman of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club in the Brian Clough bio-pic The Damned United. In the 2010 Christmas Special of My Family, he played the grandfather of a young girl who Ben meets whilst filling in for Father Christmas. Bown appeared in an advert for Toffee Crisp in the 1980s.

In 2016 he appears in the BBC TV series Father Brown as Mordaunt Jackson, episode 4.9 "The Sins of the Father"