A BRADFORD Bulls shareholder and movie star who once fought John Fury is to star in an upcoming BBC drama.
Actor and former boxer and rugby league player Halifax-born Adam Fogerty, 54, will feature in the new three-part TV series The Gallows Pole.
🎦 | Bradford Bulls' Adam Fogerty stars in upcoming drama series 'The Gallows Pole' - directed by @ShadyMeadows!
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📺 | Premieres Wednesday 31st May, 9pm on @BBCTwo and @BBCiPlayer. Check out the trailer below... pic.twitter.com/TuY1kR2QD4
Following an 18-1 professional boxing career at heavyweight, Fogerty played for Halifax, Warrington Wolves and St Helens – winning a Super League title with the latter.
He has featured in a number of Hollywood films including Snatch and Mean Machine, while also appearing on British television in Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, and Heartbeat.
The new BBC show is a Shane Meadows adaptation of the novel of the same name by Benjamin Myers.
The series tells the fictionalised story of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners at the onset of the industrial revolution in 18th-century Yorkshire.
Hartley, played by Michael Socha, assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a revolutionary criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history.
Filming locations for the show included the village of Heptonstall, near Hebden Bridge.
The series will be broadcast on BBC Two and iPlayer on May 31.
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