Ricky Tomlinson
Movies
- Al's Lads (2001)
- Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001)
- Nativity (2009)
- Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
- Preaching to the Perverted (1997)
- Raining Stones (1993)
- Riff-Raff (1990)
- The 51st State (2001)
- The Greatest Store in the World (1999)
- The Royle Family: Season 1 (1998)
Eric Tomlinson (was born 26 September 1939 in Bispham, Lancashire), known by his stage name Ricky Tomlinson, is an English film and television actor, best known for his starring role as the character Jim Royle on the popular BBC situation comedy The Royle Family and his dismissive catch phrase, "my arse", and Bobby Grant, the patriach of the Grant family where he played opposite his Royle Family wife Sue Johnston in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside from 1982–1988 Tomlinson was born Eric Tomlinson in Bispham, Blackpool, Lancashire, but has lived in Liverpool for most of his life. Tomlinson was born in Bispham because his mother, Peggy, was evacuated there due to the Liverpool Blitz in World War II. In 1962 he married his first wife Marlene, and they went on to have three children. A trained and qualified plasterer by trade, he worked on various building sites for many years, becoming actively involved in trade union politics. In 1972, he joined the flying pickets in a building workers' dispute in Shrewsbury. He was sentenced to six years in prison, of which he served two, after being found guilty of 'conspiracy to intimidate' as one of the so-called Shrewsbury Two, and in 1975 he
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