George Costigan

Born: None

Born in Portsmouth in 1947, Costigan grew up in Salford and joined the esteemed Liverpool Everyman theatre company in 1974. He has been a regular on our screens since 1978


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as Foster Father
Released: 2010-10-22

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched...

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Calendar Girls

as Eddie
Released: 2003-09-02

Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for...

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Rita, Sue and Bob Too

as Bob
Released: 1987-05-20

Rita and Sue are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford, who both share a...

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Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

as Max Capricorn
Released: 2007-12-25

When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling...

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Shirley Valentine

as Dougie
Released: 1989-08-30

Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine...

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The Arbor

as Jimmy 'The Wig'
Released: 2010-10-22

The lives of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and Lorraine, one of her daughters, and...

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Red Monarch

as Projectionist
Released: 1983-06-16

British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of...

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Garage

as Dan
Released: 2007-10-05

Due to a learning disability, Josie's life in a tiny town revolves around a menial job taking...

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Frozen

as P.C. Pike
Released: 2005-03-12

It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but...

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Hancock & Joan

as George
Released: 2008-03-26

Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and...

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The Hawk

as Stephen Marsh
Released: 1993-12-03

Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer....

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Sin Bin

as Don
Released: 1994-05-18

A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his...

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Love or Money

as Ted
Released: 2001-10-16

Two young people, Daniel and Samantha, are selected in a television show to marry. They have...

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Summer

as Mr. Tanner
Released: 2008-12-05

Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is...

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Bloody Kids

as School Masters 2
Released: 1980-03-22

The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold,...

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Under the Skin

as Nolan
Released: 1982-01-19

"When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an'...

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Safe

as Sean
Released: 1993-10-13

Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the...

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A Mind to Murder

as Robin Cheeseman
Released: 1995-01-01

Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member...

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The Tribe

as Micky
Released: 1998-06-21

Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they...

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The Life and Death of King John

as Philip - the Bastard
Released: 1984-11-24

The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's...

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The Sailor's Return

as Harry Targett
Released: 1978-11-15

Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown...

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Director: Alan Clarke

as uncredited
Released: 1991-07-12

Documentary - Alan Clarke's films exposed a real, raw world as no other films have. Works such...

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Somewhere More Central

as Hotel Manager
Released: 1981-05-16

A TV play by Beryl Bainbridge. Formby. As the family gathers for Grandma's funeral, it seems to...

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Doctor Who

as Max Capricorn
First aired: 2005-03-26

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...

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Midsomer Murders

as Jack Filby
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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Minder

as Billy
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

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Bergerac

as Oliver Sutton
First aired: 1981-10-18

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...

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Peak Practice

as Roy Telford
First aired: 1993-05-10

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...

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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

as Owen Harcourt-Baines
First aired: 2002-04-08

DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.

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The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as Det. Insp. Manciple
First aired: 1987-08-02

The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television...

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Sherlock Holmes

as Wilson Kemp
First aired: 1984-04-24

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the...

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Line of Duty

as Patrick Fairbank
First aired: 2012-06-26

A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.

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Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

as Wallace Pickering
First aired: 1996-01-03

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her...

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London's Burning

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-12-07

London's Burning is a British television drama programme produced by London Weekend Television...

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Vera

as Bill Telling
First aired: 2011-05-01

A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England,...

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Inspector Morse

as Ron Garrett
First aired: 1987-01-06

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...

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Murder Most Horrid

as Dave Jones
First aired: 1991-11-14

A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various...

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Happy Valley

as Nevison Gallagher
First aired: 2014-04-29

Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and...

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New Tricks

as uncredited
First aired: 2004-01-01

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and...

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Casualty

as Robert
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Casualty

as Martin Gregory
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Casualty

as Stephen Gregory MP
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Casualty

as Father Vincent McConnell
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Gentleman Jack

as James Holt
First aired: 2019-04-22

Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home,...

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Rose and Maloney

as uncredited
First aired: 2002-09-29

Rose and Maloney investigate old criminal cases, seeking to rectify miscarriages of justice.

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The Long Firm

as Mooney
First aired: 2004-07-07

The lives of characters who live, love and suffer through their association with the charismatic...

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Widows

as Charlie
First aired: 1983-03-16

Three armed robbers--Harry Rawlins, Terry Miller, and Joe Pirelli--die when the security van...

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Coogan's Run

as uncredited
First aired: 1995-11-17

Coogan's Run was a 1995 UK TV series featuring Steve Coogan as a series of odd characters living...

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The Barchester Chronicles

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-11-10

Against the sumptuous background of Peterborough Cathedral and its environs, one is carried into...

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So Haunt Me

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-02-23

So Haunt Me is a British television sitcom about a family that moves into a home occupied by the...

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Rockliffe's Babies

as uncredited
First aired: 1987-01-09

In this series, devised by Richard O'Keefe, maverick Detective Sergeant Alan Rockliffe is given...

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Ridley

as Ray Trevice
First aired: 2022-08-28

Retired Detective Inspector Alex Ridley is lured back into service as a consultant detective...

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The Bill

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-10-16

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the...

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Unforgiven

as Eddie Ackroyd
First aired: 2009-01-12

Upon release from jail, a woman who was found guilty of murdering two police officers when she...

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Stranded

as Quirk
First aired: 2002-06-15

The Robinson family set sail for a new life in America. After only a short time at sea, they are...

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The Beiderbecke Connection

as uncredited
First aired: 1988-11-27

The Beiderbecke Connection is a four-part British television serial written by Alan Plater and...

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Maryland

as Richard
First aired: 2023-05-22

Becca and her sister, Rosaline, have forged ahead with family lives and careers, growing distant...

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Connie

as Arnie
First aired: 1985-05-26

After years of exile in Greece, Connie returns to England to lay claim to the family fashion...

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Chimera

as Schaffer
First aired: 1991-07-07

A journalist investigates the death of his girlfriend at a fertility clinic where she worked and...

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See No Evil: The Moors Murders

as DCI Joe Mounsey
First aired: 2006-05-14

See No Evil: The Moors Murders is a British two-part television serial directed by Christopher...

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The Royal

as Hugh Etheridge
First aired: 2003-01-19

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled...

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