Adrian McLoughlin (born 1947,

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) is a British stage, television and film actor who began his career in 1983. He is best known for his 2017 role as

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in the

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film ''

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''. He has worked many times with

Alan Ayckbourn Sir Alan Ayckbourn (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific British playwright and director. He has written and produced as of 2021, more than eighty full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of ...

at the

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in Scarborough, beginning with the part of Reg in a revival of ''

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''. He has also worked with him at the

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in '' House & Garden'' and on tour throughout the UK in several of his plays. In addition, he has appeared at the

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in Ayckbourn’s ''

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'' which then went on to feature in the Brits Off Broadway Festival in New York in 2005. In 2009 he also appeared in ''

Taking Steps ''Taking Steps'' is a 1979 farce by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It is set on three floors of an old and reputedly haunted house, with the stage arranged so that the stairs are flat and all three floors are on a single level (hence the pla ...

'' written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn, again at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. In 2014 he appeared at the

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in a production of ''

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'' directed by

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. McLoughlin has set up his own theatre company Vital Signs Productions, which concentrates on producing plays featuring older people. He is also co-owner and director of the drama based training company Role Plays for Training Ltd.

Selected filmography

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