B.J. Hogg
Biography
B.J. Hogg was a Northern Irish actor, writer and director who began performing as a teenager, when he toured Ireland with the Big Bands as a classically trained musician. He was born in Lisburn, County Antrim, and died in 2020. His stage work ranged from the Arts and Lyric Theatres in Belfast to the Royal Court in London, and he was the lone European in an otherwise Russian company for Threshold at the Moscow Arts Theatre and in Minsk. Directed by Shivaun O'Casey, he toured the United States and Ireland as Corporal Brennan in The Plough and the Stars. On television he played Big Mervyn in the BBC NI comedy Give My Head Peace. His films included Steve McQueen's Hunger (2008) and City of Ember (2008), and he appeared in Richard Attenborough's Closing the Ring. He also played Lexi Hamilton in the Oscar-nominated short Dance Lexi Dance and wrote the screenplay Promises, Promises.
65years old at death
- Born Lisburn
- Died
- Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20
- William Henry Brian Hogg (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 23 years1997 to 2020
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Gil KenanDirector, 1 film, 2008
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