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Peter Kerrigan
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Peter Kerrigan
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1916-01-01,Bootle, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Gender
Male
Biography
Peter Kerrigan was a Liverpudlian actor famous for his work on a series of TV plays, many of which were directed by Ken Loach, and for his role as George Malone in Alan Bleasdale's Boys From the Blackstuff. Born in Bootle in 1916, Kerrigan was a docker originally and, as a Communist Party member, founded the Birkenhead Port Workers Defence Committee. At some point in the '50s, he joined the National Association of Stevedores and Dockers and he wrote the 1958 pamphlet, 'What Next For Britain's Port Workers?' on behalf of the Socialist Labour League - the party he had joined following his departure from the CP. In official retirement Kerrigan became an actor appearing in the militant dockworkers drama The Big Flame, written by Jim Allen and directed by Ken Loach. The play stimulated the formation of a political group of the same name, largely based in Liverpool. He was soon in demand, appearing in Loach's The Rank and File and Days of Hope, as well as the Play For Today's The Spongers and United Kingdom, and the drama The Gathering Seed - all of which were again written by Allen. He also appeared in Z Cars, The Sweeney, Family at War, Strumpet City, Crown Court, Brookside and Scully. But he'll perhaps be best remembered as George Malone in The Blackstuff and its subsequent spin off series, Boys from The Blackstuff, in which he played a blacklisted former docker and trade unionist. Kerrigan passed away at some time in 1999.

Filmography

10

The Spongers
1978-01-24

Talk About Work

6

Talk About Work
1971-12-31

6.667

The Big Flame
1969-02-19

The Black Stuff

7.385

The Black Stuff
1980-01-02

The Rank and File

6.667

The Rank and File
1971-05-20

0

Bag of Yeast
1976-02-22

7

United Kingdom
1981-12-08

0

Lucky
1974-02-05

4.556

The Body
1970-10-09

7

Coast to Coast
1987-01-04

8

The Sweeney
1975-01-02

6.5

Scully
1984-05-14

Boys from the Blackstuff

7.806

Boys from the Blackstuff
1982-10-10

The Gathering Seed

10

The Gathering Seed
1983-09-07

7

Days of Hope
1975-09-11

6

Red Letter Day
1976-01-11

The Wednesday Play

5.2

The Wednesday Play
1964-09-30