Cast & creator
Alan Bleasdale
Best known for The South Bank Show, Play for Today, Wogan
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.
14
film credits
29
television credits
7
1970–2014 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (43)
Showing 43 of 43 credits
The South Bank Show
1978
Play for Today
Writer
1970
Wogan
Self
1982
The Sinking of the Laconia
Writer
2011
Boys from the Blackstuff
Writer
1982Boys from the Blackstuff
Screenplay
1982Boys from the Blackstuff
Creator
1982Second City Firsts
Writer
1973
A Life on Screen
Self
2014
Scully
Writer
1984Scully
Creator
1984
Oliver Twist
Executive Producer
1999Oliver Twist
Writer
1999Oliver Twist
Creator
1999
Melissa
Screenplay
1997Melissa
Executive Producer
1997Melissa
Writer
1997Melissa
Creator
1997
G.B.H.
Producer
1991G.B.H.
Writer
1991G.B.H.
Creator
1991Riverside
Self
1982
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2008
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
2007
The Monocled Mutineer
Writer
1986The Monocled Mutineer
Creator
1986Sense of Place
Writer
1978
Jake's Progress
Writer
1995Jake's Progress
Producer
1995Julie Walters and Friends
1991
The Black Stuff
Writer
1980
Blood on the Dole
Producer
1994
Pleasure
Producer
1994
Julie Walters and Friends
Writer
1991
A Turn for the Worse
Writer
1981
Requiem Apache
Producer
1994
The Muscle Market
Writer
1981
Soft Sand, Blue Sea
Producer
1998
No Surrender
Writer
1985
Scully's New Year's Eve
Writer
1978
Self Catering
Producer
1994
Early to Bed
Writer
1975
Dangerous Ambition
Writer
1978