The actor Tom Georgeson, who has died aged 89, starred in two groundbreaking TV drama series as characters on both sides of the law, playing a social security cheat in Boys from the Blackstuff and a police officer rooting out force corruption in Between the Lines.
When Alan Bleasdale wrote his original, single BBC play The Black Stuff (1980), Georgeson, a firm socialist, played Tommy Dean – nicknamed “Dixie” after the legendary Everton footballer – the foreman of a group of Liverpol tarmac layers working in Middlesbrough.
