Alan Igbon facts for kids

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.

Life and career

Igbon was born in Hulme, Manchester, in May 1952. His father was Nigerian and his mother was Irish.

Igbon appeared in the cinematic re-make of the controversial borstal TV film Scum (1979). The cast included Ray Winstone and Patrick Murray.

Igbon appeared as Angadi in the LWT drama The Professionals; episode The Acorn Syndrome (1980). He starred as Loggo in Boys from the Blackstuff, a BBC television drama about a group of unemployed men in Liverpool during the recession-ravaged early 1980s, written by Alan Bleasdale. 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).

Other staple programmes in which Igbon featured include Bleasdale's drama G.B.H., 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, playing Tony Stewart the estranged father of regular character Jason Grimshaw.

Death

Igbon died on 9 December 2020, at the age of 68.

Filmography

Film

Television

See also

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