Alan Igbon

Alan Igbon

Birthday: 1952-05-29

Place of Birth: Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Biography: 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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Gobble
Gobble

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

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Babylon
Babylon

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

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The Daughters of Albion
The Daughters of Albion

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

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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

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

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Cold Enough for Snow
Cold Enough for Snow

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

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The Black Stuff
The Black Stuff

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

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Scum
Scum

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

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Blood on the Dole
Blood on the Dole

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

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Water
Water

The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existen...

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