George Costigan

ActorWriter Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK 1970–2023 (53 year career)

6.7 avg rating

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

Known For

Film

Happy Valley

Nevison Gallagher

Film

Hereafter

Foster Father

Film

Gentleman Jack

James Holt

Film

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

Max Capricorn

Film

Calendar Girls

Eddie

Film

Shirley Valentine

Dougie

Film

The Arbor

Jimmy 'The Wig'

Film

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Bob

Filmography

Acting (72)

Movies (29)

Having a Ball: The Making of Rita, Sue and Bob Too

2017

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

2016

as Self

Hereafter

as Foster Father

The Arbor

as Jimmy 'The Wig'

Hancock & Joan

as George

Summer

as Mr. Tanner

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

as Max Capricorn

Garage

as Dan

Frozen

as P.C. Pike

Calendar Girls

as Eddie

Love or Money

as Ted

Girls' Night

as Steve Wilkinson

The Tribe

as Micky

A Mind to Murder

as Robin Cheeseman

Sin Bin

as Don

Safe

as Sean

The Hawk

as Stephen Marsh

Monkey Boy

as Schaffer

Director: Alan Clarke

1991

Shirley Valentine

1989

as Dougie

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Rita, Sue and Bob Too

1987

as Bob

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The Life and Death of King John

1984

as Philip - the Bastard

Red Monarch

as Projectionist

Under the Skin

as Nolan

Happy Since I Met You

1981

as Ted

6.0

Somewhere More Central

1981

as Hotel Manager

Bloody Kids

as School Masters 2

The Sailor's Return

as Harry Targett

Jenny Can't Work Any Faster

1975

as Brian

Television (43)

Maryland

as Richard

Ridley

as Ray Trevice

Gentleman Jack

as James Holt

Happy Valley

as Nevison Gallagher

Line of Duty

as Patrick Fairbank

Vera

as Bill Telling

Unforgiven

as Eddie Ackroyd

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

as DCI Joe Mounsey

Doctor Who

as Max Capricorn

New Tricks

The Long Firm

as Mooney

The Royal

as Hugh Etheridge

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

2002

as Owen Harcourt-Baines

Rose and Maloney

Stranded

as Quirk

Badger

Midsomer Murders

as Jack Filby

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

as Wallace Pickering

Coogan's Run

as Barry Parry

Peak Practice

as Roy Telford

A Touch of Frost

as Allen Moorhead

So Haunt Me

Murder Most Horrid

as Dave Jones

Chimera

as Schaffer

The Beiderbecke Connection

as Ben

Inspector Morse

as Ron Garrett

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

1987

as Det. Insp. Manciple

Rockliffe's Babies

as Johnny Wilshire

Casualty

as Robert

ScreenPlay

as Sean

London's Burning

Screen Two

as Don

Connie

as Arnie

Sherlock Holmes

as Wilson Kemp

The Bill

Widows

as Charlie

The Barchester Chronicles

1982

7.0

The Barchester Chronicles

as Tom Towers

Fame Is the Spur

as Tom Hannaway

Bergerac

as Oliver Sutton

Minder

as Billy

Second City Firsts

as Trevor

Play for Today

1970

as Nolan

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Crew (1)

Television (1)

Birds of a Feather

1989

Writer

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