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Alan Bleasdale

Writer, Producer, ActorBorn 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)
  • Self Catering
  • Play for Today
  • Blood on the Dole
  • Requiem Apache
  • Pleasure
  • Julie Walters and Friends
  • Soft Sand, Blue Sea

Alan Bleasdale 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)

1999
Oliver Twist (1999) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1998
1997
Melissa (1997) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1995
Jake's Progress (TV Series)
1994
1994
1994
1994
1991
GBH (TV Series)

2004
2002
Timeshift (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee
2001
I Love the '80s (UK) (TV Series) · as Self - Writer
2000
BBC Breakfast (TV Series) · as Self
1991
1982
Wogan (TV Series) · as Self
1972
Pebble Mill at One (TV Series) · as Self
1971
The Old Grey Whistle Test (TV Series) · as Self

1991
1955
This is Your Life (UK) (TV Series) · as Filmed Tribute

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