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Tom Georgeson
Born: 8th Aug 1937 Liverpool, England - Died 18th Mar 2026
Dept: Acting
Liverpudlian actor Tom Georgeson was 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 was 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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 71
Film: 35 (49%)
Television: 36 (51%)
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Filmography
2014
A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip. ... view
Character:
Al
Jun 2012 (first aired)
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays. ... view
Character:
Bardolph (3 ep.)
2011
In 1860, Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of the three-year-old boy Saville Kent, who was ... view
Character:
Superintendent Foley
Apr 2011 (first aired)
Follow Sugar into the underbelly of Victorian London seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion. ... view
Character:
Henry Rackham Snr (4 ep.)
2008
Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career. ... view
Character:
Fred
Feb 2008 (first aired)
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 c ... view
Character:
Stanley Mitchell (1 ep.)
2007
Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tast ... view
Character:
Marvell
2006
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions w ... view
Character:
Ted Mawson
2006
Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest w ... view
Character:
Father Duffy
2005
Tracy a young working class girl, who - against the wishes of her parents and racist ex-boyfriend - becomes one of three wives of West London Persian ... view
Character:
Eric Pringle
2005
Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century, Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of a poor young man who falls for a middle-class sch ... view
Character:
Geoffrey Day
Oct 2005 (first aired)
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 infamo ... view
Character:
Clamb (14 ep.)
2004
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small tow ... view
Character:
Flint
2004
Tough comedy drama set in Glasgow. Former enforcer Jimmy exits jail a changed man, but both his criminal boss and a corrupt copper think he's bluffing ... view
Character:
Father Gabriel Flynn
Jan 2004 (first aired)
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 est ... view
Character:
Jock (1 ep.)
Jan 2004 (first aired)
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Ori ... view
Character:
Jason Harvey (1 ep.)
2003
In Liverpool, Joanne Conlon rescues a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary from her local church's replacement plans. As her family faces financial strug ... view
Character:
Father Keane
Jan 2003 (first aired)
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles. ... view
Character:
Duncan Crosby (1 ep.)
Oct 2002 (first aired)
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 ope ... view
Character:
Richard Hunter (1 ep.)
Sep 2002 (first aired)
This covert combat series focuses on the Red Troop, an elite group of soldiers from the British military's Special Air Service group. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Apr 2002 (first aired)
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders. ... view
Character:
Michael Shand (1 ep.)
Jun 2001 (first aired)
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases. ... view
Character:
Major Timothy Cooper (2 ep.)
1999
When Martin Luxford leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by his cellmate Jack. Returning to his nati ... view
Character:
Uncle Matty
1998
Gypsy boy Heathcliffe is adopted by God-fearing landowner Earnshaw in 19th-century northern England and grows up as the soulmate of the daughter, Cath ... view
Character:
Joseph
Sep 1998 (first aired)
Day to day, on the streets, they're at the sharp end of the fight against the drug pushers, porn barons, paedophiles and pimps who run this great port ... view
Character:
DI Howard Jones (12 ep.)
1998
During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land ... view
Character:
Mr. John Lawrence
1997
In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the ... view
Character:
Reporter
1997
Ex-police psychologist Rob has plenty of problems of his own. Having retired through ill health, he is quite aware that he is not the best person to t ... view
Character:
Jimmy
1997
A QED drama special, based upon a real-life case of medical negligence. Within four days of being admitted to hospital with minor injuries, Ray Peters ... view
Character:
Ray Peters
Mar 1997 (first aired)
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his ... view
Character:
Ron Chalk (1 ep.)
1997
Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep ... view
Character:
Sealion Spectator
1996
Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father. ... view
Character:
Bates
1996
Lyddie faces a daunting task: She's struggling to reunite her family and save their farm. To do that, she takes a job at a cotton mill and, with the h ... view
Character:
Mr. Marsden
Mar 1996 (first aired)
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Feb 1996 (first aired)
A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jan 1996 (first aired)
Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, ... view
Character:
Harry Carter (1 ep.)
May 1994 (first aired)
Brother Cadfael is a twelfth-century Anglo-Welsh monk. A retired crusader disappointed in love, and now a herbalist in charge of the gardens of Shrew ... view
Character:
Lord Giffard (1 ep.)
1993
A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was ... view
Character:
Grice
May 1993 (first aired)
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors w ... view
Character:
Bill Jackson (1 ep.)
Dec 1992 (first aired)
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like ... view
Character:
Jim Scott (1 ep.)
Sep 1992 (first aired)
Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims o ... view
Character:
Det. Insp. Harry Naylor (35 ep.)
Apr 1992 (first aired)
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines. ... view
Character:
Mr. Daniels (1 ep.)
Jun 1991 (first aired)
GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray ... view
Character:
Lou Barnes (7 ep.)
1990
The 20 January 1931 slaying of Julia Wallace remains unsolved, despite an ongoing stream of investigative writers giving an impression that a solution ... view
Character:
Det. Supt. Moore
1989
Back in London from abroad, Bill English has it all - smart flat with a river view, flash car and, of course, the beautiful Anna. But he was born and ... view
Character:
Goodis
Jan 1989 (first aired)
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poiro ... view
Character:
Inspector Grange (1 ep.)
1988
While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection. ... view
Character:
Georges Thomason
1986
Nellie (Pat Phoenix) is weak and bedridden in her aging, decrepit house due to a bad heart. Living out of her front room, Nellie is looked after by he ... view
Character:
Stanley
Nov 1986 (first aired)
Series of seven psychological dramas concerning death by unnatural causes. ... view
Character:
Stanley (1 ep.)
Sep 1986 (first aired)
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional ... view
Character:
Tim Talbot (1 ep.)
1985
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish ... view
Character:
Mr Ross
Feb 1985 (first aired)
The Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven part serial, written by Trevor Griffiths based on the book Scott and Amundsen by Roland Hun ... view
Character:
PO Lashly (7 ep.)
Jan 1985 (first aired)
Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leadin ... view
Character:
Jack Cade (1 ep.)
Oct 1984 (first aired)
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and d ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
May 1984 (first aired)
Scully was a British television drama with some comedy elements set in the city of Liverpool, England, that originated from a BBC Play For Today episo ... view
Character:
Isaiah (7 ep.)
Oct 1982 (first aired)
Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and thei ... view
Character:
Dixie Dean (5 ep.)
1981
After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting stowaway aboard the TARDIS as it travels to the pla ... view
Character:
Detective Inspector
1980
Terry is leaving school with few prospects in his native Liverpool. His father finds him a job in a local warehouse but Terry has other ideas. Livin ... view
Character:
Aug 1980 (first aired)
Juliet Bravo was a drama that focused on two female police inspectors, neither of whom were called Juliet Bravo! These two inspectors worked in the s ... view
Character:
John Holden (14 ep.)
1980
A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesbrough. After a day of work, the group are approached by two gypsies who offer them a lucrati ... view
Character:
Dixie Dean
1979
A remote stone house nestles peacefully on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. In the garden. Faith Armstrong describes the flowers and the late afternoo ... view
Character:
Malcolm Armstrong
1978
A comic extravaganza about a young woman's adventures in the world of big business charity. ... view
Character:
Journalist
Dec 1977 (first aired)
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley.
The mandate of CI5 was to ... view
Character:
Reed (1 ep.)
Pymar (1 ep.)
1975
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. ... view
Character:
Kavell
1973
Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading a failing marching band. His life changes when he ... view
Character:
Barman
1972
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity ... view
Character:
Merry Man (uncredited)
Oct 1970 (first aired)
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more tha ... view
Character:
Adler (1 ep.)
1968
An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company ... view
Character:
Second Soldier
Sep 1967 (first aired)
ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhy ... view
Character:
Stuart (1 ep.)
May 1964 (first aired)
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first reg ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Nov 1963 (first aired)
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 ... view
Character:
Detective Inspector (2 ep.)
Kavell (3 ep.)