Which actor, from 1980 to 1982 played the roll of Yosser Hughes in the TV comedy series 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
Boys from the Blackstuff Muscle Market", was released on DVD as a three-disc set by BBC Worldwide in 2003. A counterpart for the series is the book "Boys from the Blackstuff, the making of TV drama", by Bob Millington and Robin Nelson. Boys from the Blackstuff Boys from the Blackstuff is a British television drama series of five episodes, originally transmitted from 10 October to 7 November 1982 on BBC2. The serial was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, as a sequel to a television play, "The Black Stuff". The British Film Institute described it as a "seminal drama series... a warm, humorous but