Al Hunter Ashton
Al Hunter Ashton also Al Ashton ( born June 26, 1957 in Birmingham, England as Alan Hunter, † April 27, 2007 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire ) was a British actor and screenwriter.
Biography
Alan Hunter was the son of a working class family to the world. At 15, he began writing screenplays. Like his father, he worked at a car manufacturer in Longbridge, a suburb of Birmingham. In his spare time he stood as a stand- up comedian and later as a stripper in clubs around the stage. From 1975 to 1978 he studied at Manchester Polytechnic 's School of Theatre and Television, among others, with Willy Russell. His first professional engagement as an actor he received at a active in youth work Theatre -in -Education - Force in Leicestershire. Later he played in Liverpool and Derby in pieces of Russell. First television roles he played in the early 1980s on such series as Angels or Juliet Bravo. In addition, he also wrote screenplays, including Russell in order for the BBC television game Teaching Matthew, where in 1985 he also took on a small role. He became known in the soap opera Crossroads, at the same time he began his work for the competition series EastEnders for which he was twenty years as a screenwriter.
As an author, he used his legally changed in Al Hunter real name in these years. As an actor, he needed a pseudonym, since there was already a fellow named Al Hunter at that time. Since he was at this time in Ashton -under- Lyne, he chose the last name Ashton. Later he joined both to the name by which he was known in the last years of life.
Hunter Ashton was a fan of the football club Birmingham City. He tried to install at least one remark about football in all of its pieces. The value written by him TV movie The Firm (1988 ) on the hooligan scene around West Ham United ( Alan Clarke Director ) is best known. The film was based on a radio play Ashton and was awarded the 1990 Prix Europa. In 1991 he was the book of the film Alive and Kicking on a Scottish football team of former drug addicts. Lenny Henry and Robbie Coltrane played leading roles in the strip. Henry was also starred in White Goods (1994 ), for the Hunter Ashton wrote the screenplay and served as co-director of Robert Young.
In 1993, the television film won safe on homeless youth (directed by Antonia Bird), had written the screenplay for the Hunter, the BAFTA Award.
As an actor you saw him in 2000 as a gladiator trainer in Gladiator.
On 27 April 2007 Al Hunter Ashton died of heart failure.