Alan Igbon (29 May 1952 – 9 December 2020) was a British actor, best known for his roles in television series such as The Professionals, Coronation Street and Boys from the Blackstuff.
[2] Igbon took the background part of inmate Meakin in the cinematic re-make of the controversial borstal TV film Scum (1979), whose character launched an emotional tirade against senior members of staff after the suicide of another convict.
Igbon starred as Loggo in Boys from the Blackstuff,[5] a BBC television drama about a group of unemployed men in Liverpool during the recession-ravaged early 1980s, written by Alan Bleasdale.
[3] Other staple programmes in which Igbon featured include Bleasdale's drama G.B.H.,[3] medical serial Doctors and Channel 4 soap opera Brookside.
He had a supporting role in the third series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as a bodyguard and stooge to the programme's main villain (played by Boys from the Blackstuff co-star Michael Angelis) and then took a temporary role in ITV soap Coronation Street,[6] playing Tony Stewart the estranged father of regular character Jason Grimshaw.