Alan Dossor

Directing

Alan Dossor

Born — Died

1941-09-19 — 2016-08-07

Place of birth

Kingston Upon Hull, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

22 titles

Known for

Fair Game poster
5.0

It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian, has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a student, is torn between canvassing for the Labour party, watching the World Cup or going on a walking holiday with his girlfriend Ellie. Their paths cross in Preston library and the three take an epic journey across the Pennines.

Fair Game

1994

A Is for Acid poster
6.9

Dramatisation of the true story of the notorious 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh, who murdered women and disposed of their bodies in vats of acid in the 1940s. He was only caught when the gallstones of one of his victims failed to dissolve in the acid and were detected by the pathologist who examined the residue from the acid bath.

A Is for Acid

2002

Ice Dance poster
NR

A pair of teenagers are determined to achieve their ambition and become professional ice skaters, alternately helped and hindered by their families and friends.

Ice Dance

1989

First and Last poster
7.0

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

First and Last

1989

The Brides in the Bath poster
5.7

Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn by drowning them in the bath while trying to make the deaths look like accidents.

The Brides in the Bath

2003

The Missing Postman poster
5.0

When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpected rebellion he makes a decision that will change his life. As he makes his final collection from the postbox in the small seaside town where he lives, he decides to deliver the letters himself, by hand, no matter the destination. Mounting his trusty bicycle, he sets off on what proves to be an odyssey of self-discovery. Pursued by the police and lionised by the media, Clive becomes both a fugitive and a reluctant hero.

The Missing Postman

1997

Behind the camera

Fair Game poster
5.0

It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian, has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a student, is torn between canvassing for the Labour party, watching the World Cup or going on a walking holiday with his girlfriend Ellie. Their paths cross in Preston library and the three take an epic journey across the Pennines.

Fair Game

1994

Fair Game poster
5.0

It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian, has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a student, is torn between canvassing for the Labour party, watching the World Cup or going on a walking holiday with his girlfriend Ellie. Their paths cross in Preston library and the three take an epic journey across the Pennines.

Fair Game

1994

A Is for Acid poster
6.9

Dramatisation of the true story of the notorious 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh, who murdered women and disposed of their bodies in vats of acid in the 1940s. He was only caught when the gallstones of one of his victims failed to dissolve in the acid and were detected by the pathologist who examined the residue from the acid bath.

A Is for Acid

2002

Ice Dance poster
NR

A pair of teenagers are determined to achieve their ambition and become professional ice skaters, alternately helped and hindered by their families and friends.

Ice Dance

1989

First and Last poster
7.0

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

First and Last

1989

First and Last poster
7.0

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

First and Last

1989

The Brides in the Bath poster
5.7

Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn by drowning them in the bath while trying to make the deaths look like accidents.

The Brides in the Bath

2003

The Missing Postman poster
5.0

When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpected rebellion he makes a decision that will change his life. As he makes his final collection from the postbox in the small seaside town where he lives, he decides to deliver the letters himself, by hand, no matter the destination. Mounting his trusty bicycle, he sets off on what proves to be an odyssey of self-discovery. Pursued by the police and lionised by the media, Clive becomes both a fugitive and a reluctant hero.

The Missing Postman

1997

Love Match poster
NR

Rehana is studying for her A-levels. She is a Muslim and her father thinks it's time he arranged a marriage for her. But Rehana has other ideas....

Love Match

1986

The Muscle Market poster
7.0

Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling out of the building game, Duggan finds that playing at gangster is only fun when you're on the winning side.

The Muscle Market

1981

Daft Mam Blues poster
NR

As sisters, Gladys and Iris never agree about anything - but on one point they're clear: their old mam can't hear a word of their arguments, can she?

Daft Mam Blues

1977

Soldiers Talking, Cleanly poster
NR

One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence of the West.

Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

1978

Broke poster
9.0

Francis and his wife, Elaine, are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized by Ron, a wealthy friend of theirs. After completing the job, the shop owner has great difficulty collecting payment for the job. His "friend" becomes scarce and Francis finds he has no legal foot to stand on since there is no written record of the informal transaction. With the couple's business floundering due to mounting debts, and their former friend Ron's crass attitude towards their predicament, anger and frustration reach the boiling point.

Broke

1991

Star Quality poster
6.7

Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical endeavour to her best advantage, meets her match when she must trust her success to an equally willful stage director.

Star Quality

1985

No artwork available
NR

Bessie Foley, kindly ladies' lavatory attendant, tells her tragic story.

Bessie and the Bell

2001

The Life and Crimes of William Palmer poster
8.7

Keith Allen plays William Palmer in this true story of a Victorian-era English surgeon who uses poison to settle scores and ward off debt. William lacks a sense of regret, even after killing his wife, brother and three of his own children.

The Life and Crimes of William Palmer

1998

The Bell-Run poster
NR

Deep-sea diving is well paid and glamorous. But the strain is huge, living in a tiny compression chamber for four weeks at a time. And if anything goes wrong, you're a dead man.No wonder Joe can't sleep easy at nights. His nightmares might become reality.

The Bell-Run

1988

No artwork available
6.0

Set on the international tennis circuit, tension mounts in the dressing room as a major quarter-final approaches.

Singles

1983

No artwork available
NR

The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest show on earth' - a flea circus

Flea Bites

1992

No artwork available
NR

The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest show on earth' - a flea circus

Flea Bites

1992

Lost Property poster
NR

Anne and John Forrest live in an old Victorian school building. But what for Anne is the fulfillment of her childhood fantasy about a “pretend” school is too real for John and a former pupil at the school.

Lost Property

1986

Stormin' Norman poster
NR

A monologue drama from Chris Chibnall starring James Bolam as a tube driver on his last day before retirement

Stormin' Norman

2000