Adam Fogerty
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Born | Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | 6 March 1969||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adam Heywood Fogerty (born 6 March 1969) is an English actor and former boxer and rugby league footballer.[1] He is the son of rugby league footballer Terry Fogerty, who played in the 1960s and 1970s then coached in the 1980s.
Career
Adam Fogerty | |
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Born | Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | 6 March 1969
Nationality | British |
Statistics | |
Weight(s) | Heavyweight |
Boxing record | |
Total fights | 19 |
Wins | 18 |
Losses | 1 |
Draws | 0 |
No contests | 0 |
Background
Fogerty was born in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.[2]
Boxing
Fogerty's boxing career saw him facing a number of opponents. He twice faced Paul Lister, with their first meeting in 1989 handing Fogerty his first and only loss in a 6-round decision. He repaid the favour with an 8th-round knockout of Lister the next year.
Rugby league
After ending his boxing career, Fogerty joined Halifax. He also played for Warrington, and won a Super League medal with St. Helens.[3] Fogerty is currently working with Toronto Wolfpack as assistant coach.[citation needed]
Beginning around the same time as his rugby league career, Fogerty began acting and has played supporting roles in several films such as Shooting Fish and Played, as well as the unlicensed boxer, Gorgeous George, in the Guy Ritchie crime caper Snatch. He played Mouse in Mean Machine and Raw in Greenfingers. He has also worked on soaps Coronation Street and Hollyoaks. In 2012 he joined Barrie Rutter's Northern Broadsides theatre company to play Costard in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost.
In 2019, Fogerty was cast as an 'emergency plumber' for the British insurance company Direct Line. A television commercial starring Harvey Keitel.
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1992 | The Power of One | Andress Malan | |
1996 | Brassed Off | Miner | |
1997 | Shooting Fish | Bruiser | |
1997 | The Man Who Knew Too Little | Newman | |
1997 | Incognito | Ugo | |
1998 | Up 'n' Under | Wayne | |
1998 | Little Voice | Bouncer | |
2000 | Purely Belter | Zak | |
2000 | Snatch | Gorgeous George | |
2000 | Greenfingers | Raw | |
2001 | Mean Machine | Mouse | |
2004 | Gladiatress | Wolf's claw | |
2005 | Submerged | O'Hearn | Direct-to-video release |
2006 | Played | Big Frankie | |
2007 | Stardust | Pirate | |
2009 | Assault of Darkness | Bog Body | Alternative title: Legend of the Bog |
2010 | No Ordinary Trifle | Terry | |
2010 | The Heavy | Tony | |
2014 | Bait | Si | |
2015 | Legend | Big Pat | |
2018 | Walk Like A Panther | Danny Dixon |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1995 | Coronation Street | Hitman | 1 episode |
1995 | Coogan's Run | Ian Parry | 1 episode |
1995, 1996 | Heartbeat | Ken Fairbrother | 2 episodes |
1998 | Emmerdale | Jez Hudson | 4 episodes |
1999 | Queer as Folk | Roger Clements | 1 episode |
2000 | City Central | Ed the Dog | 1 episodes |
2001 | Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story | Forensic Doctor | TV film |
2002, 2006 | Ultimate Force | Rostrum/Taras Rustum | 2 episodes |
2003 | The Royal | Bernie | Episode: Dead Air |
2008 | Casualty | Paul 'Cutsy' Cusick | Episode: Diamond Dogs |
2008 | Doctors | Syd Harrington | 1 episode |
2009 | Hollyoaks | Johnny Bishop | 1 episode |
2017 | Hollyoaks | Butler | 2 episodes |
2019 | Coronation Street | Prison officer | TBC |
References
- ^ a b "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ "I came back to Yorkshire for fish and chips". Halifax Courier. 7 January 2008. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^ "From running on rugby league fields to acting on the Hollywood big screen". Fox Sports. 11 December 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
External links
- Profile at saints.org.uk
- Boxing record for Adam Fogerty from BoxRec (registration required)
- Adam Fogerty at IMDb
- The codfather! - FANCY fish and chips with star quality?
- 1969 births
- English male film actors
- English male boxers
- English rugby league players
- English people of Irish descent
- Halifax R.L.F.C. players
- St Helens R.F.C. players
- Warrington Wolves players
- Living people
- People from Oldham
- Toronto Wolfpack
- Heavyweight boxers
- British film actor stubs
- English rugby league biography stubs
- English boxing biography stubs