Alan Igbon (29 May 1952 – 9 December 2020) was a British actor, best known for his roles in television series such as The Professionals, Coronation Street and Boys from the Blackstuff.
Alan Igbon | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1952-05-29)29 May 1952 Hulme, Manchester, England[1] |
| Died | 9 December 2020 (aged 68)[2] |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | actor |
| Known for | The Front Line, The Professionals, Doctors, Brookside, Coronation Street and Boys from the Blackstuff. |
Igbon was born in Hulme,[2] Manchester, in May 1952.[1][3] His father was Nigerian and his mother was Irish.[2]
He took the background part of inmate Meakin in the cinematic re-make of the controversial borstal TV film Scum (1979), whose character launched an emotional tirade against senior members of staff after the suicide of another convict.[3][2]
Igbon appeared as Angadi, part of a kidnapping gang in the LWT drama The Professionals; episode The Acorn Syndrome (1980). Igbon starred as Loggo in Boys from the Blackstuff,[4] a BBC television drama about a group of unemployed men in Liverpool during the recession-ravaged early 1980s, written by Alan Bleasdale.[3] He also took a leading role in the sitcom The Front Line, playing the dreadlocked Sheldon, alongside Paul Barber as his police officer brother Malcolm, and had a role in the film Water (1985).[3]
Other staple programmes in which Igbon featured include Bleasdale's drama G.B.H.,[3] medical serial Doctors and Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. He had a supporting role in the third series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as a bodyguard and stooge to the programme's main villain (played by Boys from the Blackstuff co-star Michael Angelis) and then took a temporary role in ITV soap Coronation Street,[5] playing Tony Stewart the estranged father of regular character Jason Grimshaw.[6]
Igbon died on 9 December 2020, at the age of 68.[7]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Scum | Meakin | [3] |
| 1980 | Babylon | Rupert | [3] |
| 1985 | Water | Cuban | [3] |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Nightingale's Boys | Ola | Episode - Tweety [3] |
| 1975 | Crown Court | Peter Facey | episode - the Trees Part 1 [3] |
| 1975 | Coronation Street | Steve Baker | 2 epidodes[3] |
| 1978 | Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Boswell | TV film |
| 1978 | Life Begins at 40 | Darren Braithwaite | 2 episodes - Pot Luck and Happy Families |
| 1979 | Playhouse | Mike | The Daughters of Albion [2] |
| 1980 | The Professionals | Angadi | 1 episode The Acorn Syndrome [2] |
| 1980 | Mixed Blessings | Isaiah | 3 episodes |
| 1980 | The Black Stuff | Loggo Logmond | main role (TV film) [3] |
| 1981 | Angels | Tony | 2 episodes |
| 1982 | No Problem! | Isaiah | 3 episodes |
| 1982 | Boys from the Blackstuff | Loggo Logmond | main role - 5 episodes[3] |
| 1985 | Brookside | Gene | 1 episodes [2] |
| 1982 - 1985 | The Front Line | Sheldon | 6 episodes |
| 1989 | Women in Tropical Places | - | TV film |
| 1991 | G.B.H | Teddy | 7 episodes[2] |
| 1994 | Blood on the Dole | Art Gallery Attendant | TV film |
| 1994-1995 | Moving Story (TV series) | Dennis | 3 episodes |
| 1995 | The Bill | Colin West | 1 episode - Old Habitats |
| 1997 | Cold Enough for Snow | Pete in the Garage | TV film |
| 1997 | Gobble | 2nd Security man | TV film |
| 2002 | Auf Wiedersehen, Pet | Addey | 3 episodes[3] |
| 2003 | Coronation Street | Tony Stewart | 25 episodes[3] |
| 2004 | Doctors | Leon Marsh | [3] |