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Dalziel and Pascoe - 23 January 2012 - 19:00 - Alibi
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GeorgeIrving.co.uk is a site dedicated to the work of British actor George Irving. He is probably most well known for his portrayal of Anton Meyer in Holby City. However, he has made regular appearances on TV since the 1970's and his first TV role in 'When the Boat Comes in' (1976).

Since then he has appeared in numerous classic series including The Sweeney, The Professionals, Dempsey and Makepeace and Bergerac. He has also had starring roles in Holby City, Dangerfield, The Best Man, Dalziel and Pascoe and the BAFTA nominated Wing and a Prayer.

More recently he has appeared in several theatre production including the 2006 touring production of The French Lieutenant's Woman, Shining City, The Dying of Today, All My Sons, Ghosts, Landscape and shortly he will be starring in the opening production of the Bolton Octagon's 2011-2012 season, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Manchester Theatre Awards Nominations 2011

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has secured a plethora of nominations in the newly revamped Manchester Theatre Awards.

Announced today at 10am Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has nominations for the entire cast and production, as follows:

  • Best Production: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Best Actor: George irving
  • Best Actress: Margot Leciester
  • Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Hill
  • Best Supporting Actress: Tammy Joelle

Full details of the nominations in all seventeen categories are available from The Manchester Theatre Awards.

Resources

Midsomer Murders

George starred in an episode of Midsomer Murders, series 14 episode 7, A Sacred Trust, broadcast on 26 October 2011 on ITV1 and ITV1HD at 20:00.

The series is also available to download from iTunes on a per episode basis or with a season pass.

When a nun is strangled to death in the cloistered world of Midsomer Priory Barnaby and Jones are faced with an investigation involving teenage trysts, missing antique silver, African art and holy orders.

Jones visits the local pub, where he learns that a woman was seen acting strangely on the day of the murder, and that teenagers in the area sneak into the priory grounds for romantic liaisons.

Later, the nuns discover that a valuable silver altar set has vanished, then the chaplain is found murdered. Can Barnaby and Jones work out the connection between the holy orders, the missing silver, the African art and uncover the killer?

Cast

Written by Rachel Cuperman & Sally Griffiths
Directed by Renny Rye

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

New theatre appearance added 13th May 2011

George is to star in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, running from 22 September to 15 October 2011 at The Octagon Theatre in Bolton.

After the success of All My Sons and A Streetcar Named Desire launching his first two seasons David Thacker opens his third season as Artistic Director of the The Octagon Theatre with another classic contemporary American drama, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Opening at the Billy Rose Theatre, on Broadway, in October 1962, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is the multi award winning play written by Edward Albee.

A newly arrived professor and his wife are the unsuspecting guests inexorably drawn into the confrontational web of machinations arising from the volatile relationship between George (George Irving), a professor suffering a moribund career and his demanding, coquettish wife Martha (Margot Leicester).

Cast

Interviews

Reviews

Resources

Creating The Set

Creative Team

  • David Thacker – Director
  • Mark Gill – Assistant Director
  • Edward Albee – Author
  • Patrick Connellan – Designer
  • Mick Hughes – Lighting Designer
  • Andy Smith – Sound Designer
  • Lesley Hutchison – Associate Artist (Movement)
  • Sophia Horrocks – Deputy Stage Manager
  • Danielle Fearnley – Assistant Stage Manager

Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf? and Edward Albee

The Piper

George Irving in The Piper at Finborough Vibrant 2011

George starred in The Piper a new play by Colleen Murphy at Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights on 12 July 2011

From the programme:

Rats take many forms in the corporate democracy of Hameln where an orchestrated chaos reigns and ghosts of dead children mingle with the living. Ruled by the tyrannical Mayor Pop, the Town Council sells off essential services so that they can buy more casinos. A gang of Rats, led by Kingsley – who reads Nietzsche and longs to be human – bristle at being forced to do naughty jobs in exchange for leftovers. Into this greedy landscape comes Piper, a meek musician who literally collides with Pink, the Mayor’s daughter, and they are instantly smitten…but their love is interrupted when the body of the Deputy Mayor’s son is fished out of the river. Moral outrage erupts, Kingsley is publicly tortured, and Hameln declares war on the Rats…then the fun begins. Beneath the theatrical merriment of this boisterous comic-tragedy lies an astute meditation on a self-destructing society and the anguish of children clinging to the notion of unconditional love.

For more details see the Finborough website

Creative Team

Written by Colleen Murphy
Directed by Fidelis Morgan

Cast

Jo Cameron Brown
Poppy Carter
Rupert Farley
Rupert Frazer
Hermione Gulliford
Bob Gwilym
Carsten Hayes
Philip Herbert
Robin Hooper
Angus Imrie
George Irving
Frances Lo
Katie Meekison
Pauline Moran
Peter Moreton
Olivia O’Shea
Emilie Patry
Dudley Sutton
Sian Thomas
Julian Wadham
Christopher Webber
Tristram Wymark

The Royal

New upcoming TV appearance added 17th November 2008 – Updated 12th July 2011

The Royal Logo

George’s episode of The Royal (Series 8, Episode 11) Beneath the Surface, is to be broadcast on 24th July 2011 on ITV1 and ITV1 HD at 19:00 and ITV1+1 at 20:00.

With kind thanks to ITV

Beware – Contains Spoilers!

The staff of The Royal are faced with multiple casualties at the scene of an explosion caused by a World War Two bomb disturbed by workers on a building site.

Doctors Ellis and Weatherill race to the scene to discover one of their own among the casualties. Theatre technician Alun Morris was passing the site on his scooter at the time of the explosion but escapes with only minor cuts and bruises. This is in stark contrast to a homeless man sleeping rough at the site who is trapped in the rubble and must face the fact that the only way to free him is to amputate his foot.

Despite warnings from the fire brigade that the building is in imminent danger of collapse Doctor Weatherill insists she will perform the necessary surgery herself. As she works another bomb is found …

Meanwhile back at the hospital, severely damaged in the previous episode when a water tank fell through the ceiling, the staff are still struggling to find a solution to the problems of the cash strapped casualty department. The health authority are refusing to pay for the work required and in the absence of funding it appears there may be little option but to close the department and make cost cutting redundancies.

However, just as Jean proposes closure, hope comes in the form of mystery benefactor, Terence Mavers, a wealthy local businessman who makes it known his company would like to donate the £20,000 required for repairs. Could there be strings attached to the offer?

Doctor Ralph Ellis is openly hostile to the generous offer and later confides in his girlfriend and nurse at The Royal, Carol, that Terence is his father. Ralph is unable to forgive his father for a incident in the past and his hatred for his father puts the entire deal at risk.

TV Listings

Updated 24th May 2011

Finally new news of The Royal after a two year hiatus!

George will be starring in the penultimate episode of ITV1′s The Royal to be screened in the summer of 2011.

ITV’s retro medical drama, The Royal, returns after a two year break with its last ever episodes and picks up where the series left off in 2009.

Series 8 opens with an episode entitled “Any Old Iron” on 5 June 2011 and continues with “Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?” the following week on 12 June 2011, the series will continue until the final episode on 31 July 2011.

Filmed in autumn 2008 this final run of episodes features a strong cast including Wendy Craig, Glynis Barber, Linda Armstrong, Michelle Hardwick and many guests. The opening episode also features veteran actor Ian Carmichael‘s last performance before his death early in 2010.

The Royal is screened on ITV1 and ITV1 HD.

The Extremists

George was part of an open rehearsed reading of The Extremists written and directed by Chris Goode (who also directed the recent Landscape at The Theatre Royal, Bath) in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at The Royal Court Theatre in London on Friday, 25th March 2011.

Cast

Resources

Landscape

New theatre appearance added 8th January 2011

George is to star in Landscape by Harold Pinter, running from 2nd February to 19th February 2011 at The Theatre Royal, Bath.

Reviews

Resources

Cast

Credits

  • Chris Goode – Director
  • Harold Pinter – Author
  • Naomi Dawson – Designer
  • Katharine Williams – Lighting

Moving On

Due for broadcast on BBC One on Wednesday 10 November 2010 14.15 – 15.00

Losing My Religion (Episode 8 in a series of 10)

Series 2 of Moving On - Losing My Religion

Hugo Speer and Ruth Gemmell star as the parents of a bullied child in Losing My Religion, written by Shaun Duggan – part of BBC Daytime’s Moving On drama series created by Jimmy McGovern. The series of 10 films, written by new and established writers, explores contemporary issues linked by characters who learn how to move on in life.

Religion for Joanne has only ever been the backdrop to her life; her children go to a Catholic school for the academic results more than anything else. So when her son Jamie is bullied, she immediately assumes the school will put a stop to it.

Shocked to discover Jamie is being targeted because the other pupils think he’s gay, Joanne tries to talk to him but he’s only 15 and uncommunicative. Her husband Dave warns her to keep out of it, instead advising his son to land a killer punch on his tormentors.

George Irving in Moving On - Losing My Religion

Head teacher Mr Georgeson claims he abhors bullying and will reprimand those involved if Jamie gives him the names. Joanne is worried and Dave admits he’d be gutted if his son was gay, as surely any dad would be, but Jamie overhears his dad talking and suddenly feels totally alone.

The next day, Jamie misses school and Dave comes home to find that his son has attempted to take his own life. As Jamie recovers in hospital, Joanne realises that she has always known the truth.

Dave has a real heart-to-heart with Jamie while Joanne takes issue with the school again. What if another child attempts to take their own life because the school won’t educate them all on the complexities of sexuality? Mr Georgeson won’t budge – he has a duty to adhere to the teachings of the Catholic faith.

Fearing Jamie will be cast aside by God, Joanne confides in her priest, Father Dwyer. Encouraged by his response, she presses Jamie again for the bullies’ names. But when she discovers the problem is meshed into the very fabric of the school, Joanne knows she must stand up for her son, whatever the consequences.

Cast

The Orchestra

New Radio Appearance added 10 July 2010

The Orchestra starring George Irving

George is to star in improvised drama The Orchestra to be broadcast on Friday 23 July 2010 at 14.15 on BBC Radio 4 as part of The Afternoon Play series.

David Adams is half-way through a five-year contract as principal conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra when things start to go wrong. A row with the brass section leads to a dressing down by the board. Suddenly David is experiencing a deep crisis of confidence. David wonders how this has happened and whether he will be able to recover his self-belief sufficiently to return to the podium and win the orchestra back.

Improvised drama The Orchestra is based on real-life interviews with orchestral players, conductors and managers about the working life of an orchestra to be as accurate and true to the orchestral experience as possible. The cast stars Colin Metters, head of conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, which helps provide real insight into this very particular world.

Cast

Actuality of rehearsal is provided by the BBC Philharmonic, with conductor Rumon Gamba.

The Orchestra is devised, directed and produced by Rosie Boulton for the BBC

BBC Radio 4 Listing for The Orchestra

SSO!

SSO! starring George Irving written by Tara Newley and John Dale

SSO! is a 14 part satirical series written by Tara Newley and John Dale.

Taster Episodes

Filmed in 2007 the series is yet to find a home with a broadcasting company. The producers created a online taster of the series available via YouTube in 2010.

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Cast

Credits