Alan George Bleasdale was born on 23 March 1946 and is an English screenwriter, best known for social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people.
11 Facts About Alan Bleasdale
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The character became so successful that Alan Bleasdale wrote a stage play, two novels, and in 1978, a Play for Today titled Scully's New Year's Eve.
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That same year Alan Bleasdale wrote a single play for the BBC1 anthology series Play for Today entitled The Black Stuff about a group of Liverpudlian tarmac layers.
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Alan Bleasdale wrote the screenplay for his only feature film No Surrender, a black comedy which examines the animosity between the Protestants and Roman Catholics of Northern Ireland.
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Alan Bleasdale adapted William Allison and John Fairley's 1978 book The Monocled Mutineer into a four part miniseries in 1986.
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In 1994, Alan Bleasdale collaborated with Keith Thompson and David Jones on an anthology of four filmed dramas written by authors who had no prior screenwriting credits.
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Alan Bleasdale continued his work for Channel 4 with 1995's serial Jake's Progress, the story of a modern-day dysfunctional family struggling to cope with a "difficult" child.
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In 1999, Alan Bleasdale adapted Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist into a four part miniseries for ITV.
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The adaptation was well received, but attracted some controversy as Alan Bleasdale expanded the narrative by adding a backstory for the character of Oliver.
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Alan Bleasdale had been working on the screenplay since 2004; it depicted the events surrounding the World War II ocean liner RMS Laconia and the Laconia incident.
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Alan Bleasdale's house is the main location in Nickelodeon's youth series called House of Anubis, which premiered in January 2011.