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Alan Bleasdale

Writer, Producer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn March 23, 1946 (79 years)
Alan Bleasdale is an English screenwriter, best known for social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people. A former teacher, he has written for radio, stage and screen, and has also written novels. His most notable works include Boys From the Blackstuff, The Monocled Mutineer and GBH.

Known For

  • Boys from the Blackstuff
  • The Sinking of the Laconia
  • GBH
  • Oliver Twist (1999)
  • The Black Stuff
  • No Surrender
  • Jake's Progress
  • Scully
  • Melissa (1997)
  • Play for Today
  • Self Catering
  • Blood on the Dole
  • Requiem Apache
  • Pleasure
  • Soft Sand, Blue Sea

Filmography

2010
1999
1997
Melissa (1997) (TV Series) · as Screenplay
1995
Jake's Progress (TV Series)
1991
1991
GBH (TV Series)
1986
1985
1984
Scully (TV Series)
1982
1980
1978
1970
Play for Today (TV Series)

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