Boys from the Blackstuff: Moonlighter
11:05 pm - 12:05 am, Wednesday, March 4 on BBC Four (9)
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Moonlighter
Season 1, Episode 2
Dixie continues to sign on the dole while working nights as a security guard on the docks - and when a Department of Employment investigator calls, his wife is convinced they are being spied on. Meanwhile, the former foreman comes under pressure to take bribes for allowing goods to be smuggled off ships on his watch. Second part of Alan Bleasdale's drama, starring Tom Georgeson
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Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Tom Georgeson
(Actor)
.. Dixie Dean
Eileen O'Brien
(Actor)
.. Freda
Gary Bleasdale
(Actor)
.. Kevin Dean
David Fleeshman
(Actor)
.. DOE assistant manager
Gilly Coman
(Actor)
.. Dixie's clerk at DOE
Cheryl Leigh
(Actor)
.. Jackie Mills
Tony Haygarth
(Actor)
.. Aich
Paul Barber
(Actor)
.. Scotty
Martin Wyldeck
(Actor)
.. Marley
Jimmy Coleman
(Actor)
.. Third docker
Alan Wright
(Actor)
.. Fourth docker
Syd Newman
(Actor)
.. The Laughing Cavalier
Shay Gorman
(Actor)
.. Malloy
Diane Baker
(Actor)
.. Marie
Karl Lornie
(Actor)
.. Danny Dean
Nicola Hollinshead
(Actor)
.. Janet Dean
Stephen Moss
(Actor)
.. Stephen Dean
Bernard Hill
(Actor)
.. Yosser Hughes
Michael Angelis
(Actor)
.. Chrissie Todd
Alan Igbon
(Actor)
.. Loggo Logmond
Peter Kerrigan
(Actor)
.. George Malone
Philip Saville
(Director)
Michael Wearing
(Producer)
Alan Bleasdale
(Writer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Tom Georgeson
(Actor)
.. Dixie Dean
Eileen O'Brien
(Actor)
.. Freda
Gary Bleasdale
(Actor)
.. Kevin Dean
David Fleeshman
(Actor)
.. DOE assistant manager
Gilly Coman
(Actor)
.. Dixie's clerk at DOE
Cheryl Leigh
(Actor)
.. Jackie Mills
Tony Haygarth
(Actor)
.. Aich
Paul Barber
(Actor)
.. Scotty
Martin Wyldeck
(Actor)
.. Marley
Jimmy Coleman
(Actor)
.. Third docker
Alan Wright
(Actor)
.. Fourth docker
Syd Newman
(Actor)
.. The Laughing Cavalier
Shay Gorman
(Actor)
.. Malloy
Diane Baker
(Actor)
.. Marie
Karl Lornie
(Actor)
.. Danny Dean
Nicola Hollinshead
(Actor)
.. Janet Dean
Stephen Moss
(Actor)
.. Stephen Dean
Bernard Hill
(Actor)
.. Yosser Hughes
Born:
December 17, 1944
in
Manchester
Best Known For:
Playing Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff.
Early-life:
Bernard Hill was born on December 17, 1944, in Manchester. He caught the acting bug at an early age and went on to hone his craft at Manchester Polytechnic, where he graduated with a theatre diploma in 1970. It took another three years before he made his TV breakthrough in the 1973 play Hard Labour.
Career:
Hill went on to become one of British TV's most reliable character actors. The projects I, Claudius, Professional Foul and Pit Strike brought him great acclaim. However, it was Alan Bleasdale's 1980 series Boys From the Blackstuff that made him a household name. It brought him to the attention of director Peter Jackson who considered him for the role of Gandalf, before eventually casting him as King Theoden in The Lord of the Rings movies, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. On stage, Hill has appeared in A View from the Bridge, The Cherry Orchard and Macbeth. His other high profile roles on the big screen include parts in Gandhi, Shirley Valentine, The Bounty, The Ghost and the Darkness, Titanic, The Scorpion King, Wimbledon and Joy Division. On the small screen, he played David Blunkett in A Very Social Secretary to great acclaim.
Quote:
'Gizza job'.
Trivia:
Hill voiced a character in the video game Fable III.
Michael Angelis
(Actor)
.. Chrissie Todd
Alan Igbon
(Actor)
.. Loggo Logmond
Peter Kerrigan
(Actor)
.. George Malone
Philip Saville
(Director)
Michael Wearing
(Producer)
Alan Bleasdale
(Writer)
