Born in Portsmouth in 1947, Costigan grew up in Salford and joined the esteemed Liverpool Everyman theatre company in 1974. He has been a regular on our screens since 1978

Filmography

• Maryland — Richard
• Ridley — Ray Trevice
• Gentleman Jack — James Holt
• 2017Having a Ball: The Making of Rita, Sue and Bob Too
• Happy Valley — Nevison Gallagher
• Line of Duty — Patrick Fairbank
• Vera — Bill Telling
• 2010Hereafter — Foster Father
• 2010The Arbor — Jimmy 'The Wig'
• Unforgiven — Eddie Ackroyd
• 2008Hancock & Joan — George
• 2008Summer — Mr. Tanner
• 2007Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned — Max Capricorn
• 2007Garage — Dan
• See No Evil: The Moors Murders — DCI Joe Mounsey
• 2005Frozen — P.C. Pike
• New Tricks
• The Long Firm — Mooney
• 2003Calendar Girls — Eddie
• The Royal — Hugh Etheridge
• Rose and Maloney — Marcus Roche
• Stranded — Quirk
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries — Owen Harcourt-Baines
• 2001Love or Money — Ted
• Badger
• 1998Girls' Night — Steve Wilkinson
• 1998The Tribe — Micky
• Midsomer Murders — Jack Filby
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Barry Bendelow
• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates — Wallace Pickering
• Madson — George Dartnell
• 1995A Mind to Murder — Robin Cheeseman
• Coogan's Run — Barry Parry
• 1994Sin Bin — Don
• Peak Practice — Roy Telford
• 1993Safe — Sean
• 1993The Hawk — Stephen Marsh
• A Touch of Frost — Allen Moorhead
• 1992Monkey Boy — Schaffer
• So Haunt Me
• Chimera — Schaffer
• 1991Director: Alan Clarke
• Murder Most Horrid — Dave Jones
• Stolen — Terry
• Birds of a Feather — Writer
• 1989Shirley Valentine — Dougie
• The Jim Henson Hour — Father
• The Beiderbecke Connection — Ben
• Inspector Morse — Ron Garrett
• 1987Rita, Sue and Bob Too — Bob
• Rockliffe's Babies — Johnny Wilshire
• The Ruth Rendell Mysteries — Det. Insp. Manciple
• Casualty — Robert, Martin Gregory, Stephen Gregory MP, Father Vincent McConnell
• London's Burning
• ScreenPlay — Sean
• Connie — Arnie
• Screen Two — Don, Stephen Marsh
• Sherlock Holmes — Wilson Kemp
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Wilson Kemp
• The Bill
• 1984The Life and Death of King John — Philip - the Bastard
• 1983Red Monarch — Projectionist
• Widows — Charlie
• Fame Is the Spur — Tom Hannaway
• The Barchester Chronicles — Tom Towers
• 1982Under the Skin — Nolan
• Bergerac — Oliver Sutton
• 1981Happy Since I Met You — Ted
• 1981Somewhere More Central — Hotel Manager
• 1980Bloody Kids — School Masters 2
• Minder — Billy
• Pickersgill People — Duggie Butterworth
• 1978The Sailor's Return — Harry Targett
• 1975Jenny Can't Work Any Faster — Brian
• Second City Firsts — Trevor
• Play for Today — Nolan

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2016Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light — Self