George Costigan

AKA:
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Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK

Biography

Born in Portsmouth in 1947, Costigan grew up in Salford and joined the esteemed Liverpool Everyman theatre company in 1974. He has been a regular on our screens since 1978

Crew Roles

Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {68}

Steve Wilkinson

1998-06-26 6.8

Girls' Night

Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret lover with Dawn to fulfil he ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Harry Targett

1978-11-15 6

The Sailor's Return

Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife. Very quickly they find themselves ostracised by the c ...
Genre :

Bob

1987-05-20 6.274

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Rita and Sue are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford, who both share a job babysitting for Bob and Michelle's children. Whilst giving them a lift home one night, Bob decides ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Jimmy 'The Wig'

2010-10-22 7.232

The Arbor

The lives of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and Lorraine, one of her daughters, and the community of Bradford, in the 30 years since the 18-year-old Andrea penned a play about growing up i ...
Genre :Drama

Robin Cheeseman

1995-01-01 5.8

A Mind to Murder

Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of his team, DS Sarah Hillier. His superiors order him back to work to investigate the murder of the Di ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Stephen Marsh

1993-12-03 5.8

The Hawk

Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she ...
Genre :Thriller, TV Movie

School Masters 2

1980-03-22 6.4

Bloody Kids

Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), two 11-year-old boys - the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Brian

1975-12-08 0

Jenny Can't Work Any Faster

Jenny is an autistic teenager. Her father is concerned about her being withdrawn and hopes that employing her in his own business will bring her out of her shell. He also employs a new young assistant ...
Genre :Drama

Don

1994-05-18 0

Sin Bin

A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Projectionist

1983-06-16 5

Red Monarch

British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed un ...
Genre :Comedy

Sean

1993-10-13 5.8

Safe

Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Ted

1981-08-08 6

Happy Since I Met You

A play by Victoria Wood. Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogation from her family as to why she's not married. Then she meets Jim, and finds she has decisions to make. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Hotel Manager

1981-05-16 0

Somewhere More Central

A TV play by Beryl Bainbridge. Formby. As the family gathers for Grandma's funeral, it seems to Olive that the eccentric old lady they have come to bury is far from dead. ...
Genre :

Eddie

2003-09-02 6.5

Calendar Girls

Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

George

2008-03-26 4.9

Hancock & Joan

Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

P.C. Pike

2005-03-12 5.7

Frozen

It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath remains haunted by a need to know what happened. When police investigations wind down, Kath continues ...
Genre :Thriller

Philip - the Bastard

1984-11-24 7

The Life and Death of King John

The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John moves to plactate the French, but th ...
Genre :History, Drama

Micky

1998-06-21 5.3

The Tribe

Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons. ...
Genre :Drama

Dan

2007-10-05 6.7

Garage

Due to a learning disability, Josie's life in a tiny town revolves around a menial job taking care of a garage that could close at any day. Things start to change, however, when David, the son of his ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Foster Father

2010-10-22 6.113

Hereafter

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways. ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Dougie

1989-08-30 6.3

Shirley Valentine

Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best frie ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Mr. Tanner

2008-12-05 6.3

Summer

Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labele ...
Genre :Drama

1991-07-12 0

Director: Alan Clarke

Documentary - Alan Clarke's films exposed a real, raw world as no other films have. Works such as "Scum," "Made in Britain," "The Firm," "Rita, Sue and Bob Too" and "Elephant" inspired a generation of ...
Genre :Documentary

Max Capricorn

2007-12-25 7.558

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Christmas infer ...
Genre :Science Fiction, TV Movie, Mystery, Drama, Thriller

Ted

2001-10-16 0

Love or Money

Two young people, Daniel and Samantha, are selected in a television show to marry. They have never seen each other ever. After the wedding ceremony took place on television, then married life really s ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Nolan

1982-01-19 0

Under the Skin

"When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins." - Kipling. Polly writes for a magazine producing glamorous m ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Self

2016-06-13 0

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers. ...
Genre :Documentary

Schaffer

1992-12-31 0

Monkey Boy

Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investigating a macabre mass-murder, discovers the mutant boy — a creature with the mind of a child and supe ...
Genre :Horror, TV Movie

Dave Jones

1991-11-14 6.6

Murder Most Horrid

A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with mu ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Crime, Mystery

1992-02-23 6.8

So Haunt Me

So Haunt Me is a British television sitcom about a family that moves into a home occupied by the ghost of its previous resident, a middle-aged Jewish mother. The show was produced by Cinema Verity for ...
Genre :Comedy

Owen Harcourt-Baines

2002-04-08 7.107

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1984-10-16 6.705

The Bill

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Ron Garrett

1987-01-06 7.8

Inspector Morse

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1986-12-07 7.6

London's Burning

London's Burning is a British television drama programme produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network that focused on the lives of members of the London Fire Brigade, principally those of ...
Genre :Drama

1988-11-27 7.3

The Beiderbecke Connection

The Beiderbecke Connection is a four-part British television serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1988. It is the third and final part of The Beiderbecke Trilogy and stars James Bolam and Ba ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1995-11-17 6.4

Coogan's Run

Coogan's Run was a 1995 UK TV series featuring Steve Coogan as a series of odd characters living in the fictional town of Ottle. It was written by various people including Coogan, Patrick Marber, Davi ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

2004-01-01 7.3

New Tricks

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pul ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1982-11-10 7

The Barchester Chronicles

Against the sumptuous background of Peterborough Cathedral and its environs, one is carried into Trollope's world of the intriguing machinations of the clerical establishment of Barchester. Backed by ...
Genre :Drama

1999-07-11 0

Badger

Drama series about a police wildlife liaison officer and others who help him fight wildlife crime set in the rural county of Northumberland. ...
Genre :

Schaffer

1991-07-07 6

Chimera

A journalist investigates the death of his girlfriend at a fertility clinic where she worked and uncovers a plot to create a new breed of human based on crossing the genetics of man and ape. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Mooney

2004-07-07 7.6

The Long Firm

The lives of characters who live, love and suffer through their association with the charismatic charms of gangster Harry Starks. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Nevison Gallagher

2014-04-29 7.9

Happy Valley

Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Richard

2023-05-22 6.5

Maryland

Becca and her sister, Rosaline, have forged ahead with family lives and careers, growing distant through time and circumstance. But when the body of an older woman is discovered at sunrise on Laxey Be ...
Genre :Drama

Wallace Pickering

1996-01-03 7.2

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on a ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1987-01-09 5.2

Rockliffe's Babies

In this series, devised by Richard O'Keefe, maverick Detective Sergeant Alan Rockliffe is given the job of training seven new young recruits to the C.I.D., all fresh out of uniform. Under his irascibl ...
Genre :Drama

Det. Insp. Manciple

1987-08-02 6.2

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

2002-09-29 6

Rose and Maloney

Rose and Maloney investigate old criminal cases, seeking to rectify miscarriages of justice. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Wilson Kemp

1984-04-24 8.093

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Billy

1979-10-29 6.8

Minder

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many busines ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Patrick Fairbank

2012-06-26 8.248

Line of Duty

A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Arnie

1985-05-26 10

Connie

After years of exile in Greece, Connie returns to England to lay claim to the family fashion business. ...
Genre :

Roy Telford

1993-05-10 6.1

Peak Practice

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 ...
Genre :Drama

Robert

1986-09-06 6

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives. ...
Genre :Drama, Soap

Hugh Etheridge

2003-01-19 7.6

The Royal

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles. ...
Genre :Drama

Bill Telling

2011-05-01 7.412

Vera

A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Martin Gregory

1986-09-06 6

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives. ...
Genre :Drama, Soap

Stephen Gregory MP

1986-09-06 6

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives. ...
Genre :Drama, Soap

Father Vincent McConnell

1986-09-06 6

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives. ...
Genre :Drama, Soap

DCI Joe Mounsey

2006-05-14 6.4

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

See No Evil: The Moors Murders is a British two-part television serial directed by Christopher Menaul. It was produced by Granada Television and broadcast on ITV during May 2006. It tells the story of ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Eddie Ackroyd

2009-01-12 7.3

Unforgiven

Upon release from jail, a woman who was found guilty of murdering two police officers when she was a teenager who is determined to see her sister who was adopted. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Oliver Sutton

1981-10-18 6.6

Bergerac

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes cau ...
Genre :Drama

Ray Trevice

2022-08-28 6

Ridley

Retired Detective Inspector Alex Ridley is lured back into service as a consultant detective when his former protégée, Carol Farman, needs help cracking a complex murder case. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

James Holt

2019-04-22 7.8

Gentleman Jack

Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family ...
Genre :Drama

Jack Filby

1997-03-23 7.516

Midsomer Murders

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Max Capricorn

2005-03-26 7.541

Doctor Who

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Nolan

1970-10-15 6.1

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original tel ...
Genre :Drama

Quirk

2002-06-15 7

Stranded

The Robinson family set sail for a new life in America. After only a short time at sea, they are caught in a terrible, relentless storm that shatters their ship and they find themselves on the sandy b ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

Charlie

1983-03-16 7

Widows

Three armed robbers--Harry Rawlins, Terry Miller, and Joe Pirelli--die when the security van that they are robbing catches fire in the Kingsway Tunnel in London. Their widows--Dolly Rawlins, Shirley M ...
Genre :Crime, Drama