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Brian Gwaspari

British actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 8, 2023
Entity authorityQ4963908 ↗
Source-derived summary

Brian Gwaspari (born 1948) is a British actor who made frequent guest star roles throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

He also starred in two police drama series, Specials and The Gentle Touch, appeared in The Professionals and starred in the two-part series Trial and Retribution.

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Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Brian, Gwaspari and British providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 8, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q4963908. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “Brian Gwaspari” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.