Paul Loughran

Paul Loughran
Born	Paul Anthony Martin Loughran 7 July 1969 Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Nationality	Irish
Ethnicity	Irish
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1992-present
Known for	Acting
Awards	Soap Awards BAFTA

Paul Loughran (born 7 July 1969 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish actor. He was educated at Methodist College Belfast. He is best known for portraying Butch Dingle in ITV Soap Opera Emmerdale in which his character died in a bus crash with friend Pete Collins. After that he appeared in many other Soaps such as Heartbeat. During the 1980s when the real voice of Gerry Adams, the spokesman for Sinn Féin, was forbidden to be broadcast in Britain, Loughran's voice dubbed into recordings of him broadcast on British airwaves.^[1][2]

Filmography

• Jericho (2016)
• Blue Murder (2003–09)
• Heartbeat (2005)
• The Baby War (2005)
• Ideal (2005)
• The Royal (2003)
• I Fought the Law (2003)
• Puckoon (2002)
• Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (2002)
• The Bill (2000)
• Emmerdale (1994–2000)
• The Darling Buds of May (1992)

External links

• Paul Loughran at the Internet Movie Database

References

1. Ulster Actors
2. Paul Loughran at the Internet Movie Database