Alan Igbon
Of West African and Irish heritage, Mancunian jobbing actor Alan Igbon was a familiar figure on our screens from the 1970s onwards. Most famously, Igbon starred as Meakin in Alan Clarke's 1979 film version of Scum and as Loggo in the seminal drama The Boys From The Blackstuff. Penned by Alan Bleasdale, it was the start of a working relationship that saw Igbon appear in several other productions from the writer, including GBH and Blood on the Dole. Other credits included the rasta Sheldon in the comedy series The Front Line, a student in Alan Bennett's Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf and a minder to ex Boys co-star Michael Angelis in the third series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. He also appeared in the soaps Brookside and Coronation Street and the films Babylon and Water. Early in January 2021 it was announced on Twitter by friend and fellow actor Louis Emerick that Igbon has died at some time in December at the age of 68.
Babylon
as RuppieDrama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as...
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Scum
as MeakinPowerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of...
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Water
as CubanA British diplomat to a West Indian island nation finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos...
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Gobble
as Security ManAs Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad...
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The Black Stuff
as Loggo LogmondA Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesborough. After a day of work, the group...
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Cold Enough for Snow
as PeteDoting parents (Maureen Lipman, David Ross, Tom Wilkinson) must adjust to life without their...
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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
as BoswellA repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding,...
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Blood on the Dole
as Art Gallery AttendantAlan Bleasdale's touching yet frank drama for Channel 4 about the struggles of a group of young...
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The Professionals
as AngadiThe lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...
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Crown Court
as uncreditedCrown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...
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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
as AddeySeven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to...
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G.B.H.
as TeddyGBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of...
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Boys from the Blackstuff
as Loggo LogmondAlan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian...
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The Front Line
as uncreditedThe Front Line was a 1984/1985 BBC sitcom about two half-brothers of West Indian descent who...
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