Adrian McLoughlin
Acting
Biography
Adrian McLoughlin (born 1947, London) is a British stage, television and film actor who began his career in 1983. He is best known for his 2017 role as Joseph Stalin in the Armando Iannucci film The Death of Stalin. He has worked many times with Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, beginning with the part of Reg in a revival of The Norman Conquests. He has also worked with him at the Royal National Theatre in House & Garden and on tour throughout the UK in several of his plays. In addition, he has appeared at the Orange Tree Theatre in Ayckbourn’s Private Fears in Public Places which then went on to feature in the Brits Off Broadway Festival in New York in 2005. In 2009 he also appeared in Taking Steps written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn, again at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. In 2014 he appeared at the Arcola Theatre in a production of The Rivals directed by Selina Cadell. McLoughlin has set up his own theatre company Vital Signs Productions, which concentrates on producing plays featuring older people. He is also co-owner and director of the drama based training company Role Plays for Training Ltd.
Known For
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
A Touch of Frost
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. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
New Tricks
Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.
Last of the Summer Wine
Kingdom is a British television series created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal assistance.
Kingdom
Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.
After Life
As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape.
Black Earth Rising
The Women's Guild is an organisation in the small town of Clatterford St. Mary that aims to promote truth, justice, tolerance and fellowship. Or maybe it's just an excuse for good, old-fashioned gossip. Regardless, meetings feature discussions and visiting speakers. The Guild is the center of life in Clatterford, which has a good cross-section of people, local shops and a late-night convenience store.
Jam and Jerusalem
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?
The Death of Stalin
An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becoming an astronaut.
Thunderpants
The duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England in the 1980s.
Empire of Light
N.K. Edwards and Vijay Shah are a pair of warring solicitors whose conflict spills out of the courtroom and into chambers, their quarrel witnessed by Councillor Judith Silver.
Little Napoleons
What happens when after the Wonderland, Alice finds herself in the post-Brexit United Kingdom? Philosophy student Alice’s world is turned upside down on the morning after a masquerade party when her soulmate Rabbit whom she found the previous night has disappeared into thin air without leaving a trace after the crazy night, as befits the mysticism of the 21st century.
Alice, Through the Looking
A bouncer finds out that guarding modern art is just as hazardous as controlling the ropes at a nightclub.
Nipplejesus
Gordon is determined to die as he has lived - alone. Until care worker Aaron comes knocking. And an intimate encounter alters his life as well as his death.
Fist
An elderly man who is losing his wife and a young boy letting go of his mother form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in a hospital.