Sean Flanagan
Birthday: Born in 1958-01-01 in UK
Deathday: 1981-06-27
Sean Flanagan was a British actor known for his work on British television. He was best known for playing Matt the stable boy ghost in The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976-78). He played Bitzer in two episodes of the TV series Hard Times (1977). He had many guest appearances in several British TV shows from the 1960s to the 1970s including Look and Read (1967-2004), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973-1974), The Liver Birds (1969-1996), The Nearly Man (1974-1975), The Sunday Drama (1977-1978). He appeared in four episodes of the TV series Coronation Street (1960), where he played multiple characters including Charlie, Bernie Marsh and Rodney Smith. He also appeared in three episodes of the TV series Z-Cars where he also played multiple characters including Chris Coles, First Youth and Roy Grant. Flanagan tragically died in a Road Accident on 27 June 1981 at the young age of only 23.
TV Credits
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
Character: Matt
The Ghosts of Motley Hall is a British children's television series written by Richard Carpenter which was produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence for Granada Television, and broadcast between 1976 and 1978 on the ITV network. The series relates the adventures of 5 ghosts who haunt Motley Hall. Each ghost is from a different era and all with the exception of Matt are unable to leave the confines of the building and Matt himself is unable to travel outside the grounds of the Hall. The only regu...
Z-Cars
Character: Roy Grant
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978....
Z-Cars
Character: 1st Youth
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978....
Z-Cars
Character: Chris Coles
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978....
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Character: Boy
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour sequel to the mid-1960s hit The Likely Lads. It was created and written, as was its predecessor, by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. There were 26 television episodes over two series; and a subsequent 45-minute Christmas special was aired on 24 December 1974. The cast were reunited in 1975 for a BBC radio adaptation of series 1, transmitted on Radio 4 ...
Movie Credits
Lost and Found
Character: Tadhg
'Lost and Found' is a film with 7 interconnecting stories set in and around a lost and found office of an Irish train station....
After the Solo
Character: Billy
"The voice will make its effect. And it will, undoubtedly, be very touching. But, tell me: after his voice has broken, can you make anything of him then?" After the solo, after the chorus, after the applause?...
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
Character: Matt
Five ghosts from different eras haunt Motley Hall, a 16th-century mansion once home to the Uproar family. They must coexist and prevent the modern world from disturbing their ancestral abode....