Tom Georgeson
Acting
Biography
Liverpudlian actor Tom Georgeson is best known for his roles in several groundbreaking TV dramas including Between the Lines and Boys from the Blackstuff, Scully and G.B.H. - the last three all penned by Alan Bleasdale. For film fans he is perhaps best remembered for his role as crook George Thomason (a play on his own name) in John Cleese and Charles Crichton's 1988 comedy smash A Fish Called Wanda.
Born: August 8, 1937
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England
Known For
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
The Time Lords dispatch the Doctor to the past of the planet Skaro on his deadliest adventure yet — to prevent the creation of the Daleks.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Bleak House
The generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the infamous case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, which will make one of them rich beyond imagination if it can ever be brought to a conclusion. As Tulkinghorn digs deeper into Lady Dedlock's past, he unearths a secret that will change their lives forever, and which is almost as astounding as the final outcome of the Jarndyce case.
Foyle's War
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
Doctor Who
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Doctor Who
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Boys from the Blackstuff
Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and union leader, George Malone. As they struggle to make ends meet in a depressed economy, and to hold together their financially battered families, they are harrassed by the petty bureaucrats of the DHSS. But the lumbering investigational juggernaut is, both comically and tragically, guided by drivers with only a provisional license.
Ashes to Ashes
Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company.
The Royal
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
Shameless
The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad who falls for Fiona, the oldest sibling, and increasingly finds himself drawn to this unconventional and unique family. Anarchic family life seen through the eyes of an exceptionally bright fifteen year old, who struggles to come of age in the context of his belligerent father, closeted brother, psychotic sister and internet porn star neighbors.
Filmography
as Al
as Bardolph
as Superintendent Foley
as Henry Rackham Snr
as Fred
as Stanley Mitchell
as Marvell
as Ted Mawson
as Father Duffy
as Geoffrey Day
as Clamb
as Flint
as Jock
as Jason Harvey
as Father Keane
as Duncan Crosby
as Richard Hunter
as Michael Shand
as Major Timothy Cooper
as Uncle Matty
as Joseph
as DI Howard Jones
as Mr. John Lawrence
as Reporter
as Jimmy
as Peter Thorogood
as Ray Peters
as Ron Chalk
as Sealion Spectator
as Bates
as Mr. Marsden
as Harry Carter
as Lord Giffard
as Bill Jackson
as Jim Scott
as Det. Insp. Harry Naylor
as Mr. Daniels
as Lou Barnes
as Goodis
as Inspector Grange
as Georges Thomason
as Stanley
as Tim Talbot
as Mr Ross
as PO Lashly
as Jack Cade
as Isaiah
as Dixie Dean
as Detective Inspector
as John Holden
as Dixie Dean
as Journalist
as Reed
as Pymar
as Kavell
as Barman
as Merry Man (uncredited)
as Adler
as Detective Inspector
as Kavell