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Alan Bleasdale Biography (1946-)

Born March 23, 1946, in Liverpool, England; son of George (a foreman) and Margaret (a shop assistant; maiden name, Grant) Bleasdale; married Julia Moses,December 28, 1970; children: Timothy, Jamie, Tamana. Addresses: Agent:Lemon, Unna, and Durbridge, 24 Pottery Lane, Holland Park, London W11 4LZ, England.

Nationality

British

Gender

Male

Occupation

Writer, producer

Birth Details

March 23, 1946

Liverpool, England

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Producer
• Soft Sand, Blue Sea, 1997
• Television Producer
• Movies
• Self Catering (also known as Alan Bleasdale Presents Self Catering), 1994
• Requiem Apache (also known as Alan Bleasdale Presents Requiem Apache), 1994
• Blood on the Dole (also known as Alan Bleasdale Presents Bloodon the Dole), 1994
• Television Work
• Miniseries
• Producer, GBH, 1991
• Executive producer, Melissa, 1997
• Executive producer, Oliver Twist, 1999
• WRITINGS
• Plays
• Fat Harold and the Last Twenty-Six, produced at Liverpool Playhouse, Liverpool, England, 1975
• The Party's Over, produced at Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool, 1975
• (With others) Scully (adaptation of Bleasdale's novel of the same title), produced at Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, 1975
• Down the Dock Road, produced at Playhouse Theatre, 1976
• (With Kenneth Alan Taylor) Franny Scully's Christmas Stories,produced at Playhouse Theatre, 1976
• It's a Madhouse, produced at Contact Theatre, Manchester, England, 1976
• Should Auld Acquaintance, produced at Contact Theatre, 1976
• No More Sitting on the Old School Bench, produced at Contact Theatre, 1977, published by Woodhouse, 1979, published with David Calcutt's Detention by Heinemann, 1987
• Crackers, produced at The Playhouse, Leeds, England, 1978
• Pimples, produced at Contact Theatre, 1978
• Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing (for children), produced in Redditch, Worcestershire, England, 1986, published in Act I, edited by David Self and Ray Speakman, Hutchinson, 1979
• Having a Ball, produced at the Coliseum, Oldham, Lancashire, England, 1981
• Young People Today (sketch), produced with The Big One in London, 1983
• Are You Lonesome Tonight? (musical), produced at Liverpool Playhouse, 1985, published by Faber, 1985
• Having a Ball [and]It's a Madhouse, published by Faber,1986
• On the Ledge, published by Faber, 1993
• Television Series
• Scully (adapted from Bleasdale's novel of the same title), 1984, television script published by Hutchinson, edited by David Self, 1984
• The Monocled Mutineer (four-part series; adapted from the book byWilliam Allison and John Farley), BBC, 1986, television script published by Hutchinson, 1986
• Television Miniseries
• Boys from the Blackstuff, BBC, published by Hutchinson, edited byDavid Self, 1985
• GBH, 1991
• Jake's Progress, 1995
• Melissa, 1997
• Oliver Twist, 1999
• Television Movies
• Early to Bed, BBC, 1975
• Dangerous Ambition, BBC, 1976
• The Black Stuff, BBC, 1980
• The Muscle Market, BBC, 1981
• Television Specials
• Scully's New Years Eve (also known as Play for Today: Scully's New Year's Eve), BBC, 1978
• Screenplays
• No Surrender, Norstar, 1986, published as No Surrender: A Deadpan Farce by Faber, 1986
• Novels
• Scully, Hutchinson, 1975
• Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? Hutchinson, 1977, revised edition published as Scully and Mooey, Corgi, 1984

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

• Contemporary Dramatists, 1999. 6th edition, St. James Press,