Acting
Community Rating
7.7
TMDB estimate
Born
February 26, 1943
Died
April 1, 2017 (age 74)
Leighton Rhett Radford "Darcus" Howe (26 February 1943 – 1 April 2017) was a British broadcaster, writer and racial justice campaigner. Originally from Trinidad, Howe arrived in England as a teenager in 1961, intending to study law and settling in London. There he joined the British Black Panthers, a group named in sympathy with the US Black Panther Party. He came to public attention in 1970 as one of the nine protestors, known as the Mangrove Nine, arrested and tried on charges that included conspiracy to incite a riot, following a protest against repeated police raids of The Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill, London. They were all acquitted of the most serious charges and the trial became the first judicial acknowledgement of behaviour (the repeated raids) motivated by racial hatred, rather than legitimate crime control, within the Metropolitan Police. In 1981, he organised a 20,000-strong "Black People's Day of Action" in protest at the handling of the investigation into the New Cross house fire, in which 13 black teenagers died. Howe was an editor of Race Today, and chairman of the Notting Hill Carnival. He was best known as a television broadcaster in the UK for his Black on Black series on Channel 4, his current affairs programme Devil's Advocate, and his work with Tariq Ali on Bandung File. His television work also included White Tribe (2000), a look at modern Britain and its loss of "Englishness"; Slave Nation (2001); Who You Callin' a Nigger? (2004); and Is This My Country? (2006), a search for his West Indian identity. He was a columnist for the New Statesman and The Voice.

Da Silva, Da Silva
as Executive Producer
TBA

Joan Rivers at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2024

Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact & Works of C.L.R James
as Himself
2016

What Ron Said
2004
Who You Callin' a Nigger?
as Self
2004
Slave Nation
as Host, Creator
2001

White Tribe
as Presenter
2000

The Banana
as Self
1997

Brass Eye
as Self
1997

Partition
as Executive Producer
1987
Viv
as Himself / Narrator, Writer
1985
The Painter & The Pest
as Producer
1985

Blacks Britannica
as Self
1978

The Mangrove Nine
as Self
1973