"Who played Yosser Hughes in the acclaimed TV series ""The Boys From The Black Stuff'?"
Yosser Hughes Yosser Hughes Jimmy "Yosser" Hughes is a fictional character from Alan Bleasdale's 1982 (written in 1978) television series "Boys from the Blackstuff", set in Liverpool, portrayed by Bernard Hill. Yosser appears as a tall man in his mid-thirties who wears predominantly black clothes and has a distinctive bushy moustache. He always appears unkempt and unshaven. He had a wife called Maureen, an aggressive, unloving harridan who frequently berates him and had an affair with another man, the likely father of their three children (played in the drama by Alan Bleasdale's children). The pilot of Blackstuff implies that Hughes worked in
Yosser Hughes at the priest's banal eulogy. In the pub afterwards, he raises a cheer when he headbutts a vicious former bouncer into unconsciousness. In the very final scene, as three of the main characters watch a controlled demolition of a Tate and Lyle factory, Yosser's hopeless refrain of 'Gizza Job' is almost a requiem for the old working-class community that is being destroyed. The series tackled the subject of unemployment. Yosser became an icon of Thatcherite Britain in the 1980s with his catchphrase of "Gizza job" ("give us [me] a job"). Yosser Hughes Jimmy "Yosser" Hughes is a fictional character from