Alan Igbon

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]
Died9 December 2020 (aged 68)[2]
NationalityEnglish
Occupationactor
Known forThe Front Line, The Professionals, Doctors, Brookside, Coronation Street and Boys from the Blackstuff.

Life and career

Igbon was born in Hulme, Manchester, in May 1952.[3] He was of West African and Irish descent.

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.

Igbon appeared as Angadi, part of a kidnapping gang in the hard-hitting police 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. 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 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,[5] playing Tony Stewart the estranged father of regular character Jason Grimshaw.[6] The character returned in 2014, but was played by actor Terence Maynard until November 2015. It was announced on 14 March 2016 that Tony would be killed off.

Death

Igbon died in December 2020 at the age of 68.[7]

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1979ScumMeakin
1980BabylonRupert
1985WaterCuban

References
  1. Ingate, Kathryn (Jan 6, 2021). "Alan Igbon dead: Coronation Street and Brookside star dies 'peacefully' aged 68". Express.co.uk. Retrieved Jan 6, 2021.
  2. Alan Igbon Telegraph obituary
  3. Needham, Lucy; Otter, Saffron (Jan 6, 2021). "Tributes to Coronation Street actor Alan Igbon who has died aged 68". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved Jan 6, 2021.
  4. "'Coronation Street' and 'Brookside' actor Alan Igbon dies aged 68". uk.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
  5. Bourne, Stephen (19 July 2005). Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television. A&C Black. pp. 170–. ISBN 9780826478986. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  6. "Alan Igbon dead: Coronation Street star dies aged 68 as actor's niece pays tribute". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
  7. Needham, Lucy (6 January 2021). "Alan Igbon dead: Coronation Street and Brookside star dies at 68, says niece". Daily Mirror. Reach plc. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
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