Alan Igbon

Born: 1952-05-29

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.


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Scum

as Meakin
Released: 1979-09-12

Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of...

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Water

as Cuban
Released: 1985-01-11

A British diplomat to a West Indian island nation finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos...

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Blood on the Dole

as Art Gallery Attendant
Released: 1994-10-18

Alan Bleasdale's touching yet frank drama for Channel 4 about the struggles of a group of young...

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The Black Stuff

as Loggo Logmond
Released: 1980-01-02

A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesborough. After a day of work, the group...

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Babylon

as Ruppie
Released: 1980-11-07

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as...

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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

as Boswell
Released: 1978-12-02

A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding,...

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Gobble

as Security Man
Released: 1997-02-15

As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad...

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Cold Enough for Snow

as Pete
Released: 1997-12-31

Doting parents must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college...

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The Daughters of Albion

as Mike
Released: 1979-05-01

Three biscuit factory girls mix with students at a party.. Boozing, smoking, jaunty cross-talk...

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Crown Court

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-10-11

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...

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The Professionals

as Angadi
First aired: 1977-12-30

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...

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Boys from the Blackstuff

as Loggo Logmond
First aired: 1982-10-10

Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian...

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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

as Addey
First aired: 1983-11-11

Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to...

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G.B.H.

as Teddy
First aired: 1991-06-06

GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of...

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The Front Line

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-12-06

The Front Line was a 1984/1985 BBC sitcom about two half-brothers of West Indian descent who...

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