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Colin Welland
Liverpool, England
Actor and writer Colin Welland will perhaps be forever remembered for his triumph at the 1982 Academy Awards, when he won the Best Screenplay Oscar for his screenplay for the hit…
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Actor and writer Colin Welland will perhaps be forever remembered for his triumph at the 1982 Academy Awards, when he won the Best Screenplay Oscar for his screenplay for the hit film Chariots of Fire, proclaiming "The British are Coming!" As an actor, his first film appearance is perhaps still his best-loved, the sympathetic Mr Farthing in Kes (1969), for which he won a BAFTA. Born in Liverpool, but raised in Leigh, Welland initially started out as an art teacher before moving into acting and becoming a household name playing the role of PC Graham in the long running BBC police serial Z Cars. Aside from Chariots of Fire, he wrote many other plays and films including the BAFTA winning Kisses at Fifty (later remade for Hollywood with Gene Hackman as Twice in a Lifetime), Leeds United! based on the rag trade strike that his own mother-in-law was active in, Yanks, A Dry White Season and War of the Buttons. As a film and TV actor his credits include Kes, Straw Dogs, Blue Remembered Hills, Cowboys and Sweeney! He died at the age of 81 on November 2, 2015, having suffered from Alzheimer's disease for several years.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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1997
Trial & Retribution
TV show Mallory
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1997
The Fix
Movie Harry Catterick
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1995
Bramwell
TV show Mr. Barclay
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1994
War of the Buttons
Movie Writer
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1994
Bambino Mio
Movie Writer
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1993
Femme Fatale
Movie Martin Harty
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1991
For the Greater Good
TV show Sir David Whites
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1990
The Return of the Green Man
Movie Narrator
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1990
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Movie Reuters editor
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1990
Dancin' Thru the Dark
Movie Manager
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1989
A Dry White Season
Movie Screenplay
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1989
Screen One
TV show Writer
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1987
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Movie Klarsfeld
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1985
Twice in a Lifetime
Movie Writer
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1981
United Kingdom
Movie Chief Constable James McBride
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1981
Chariots of Fire
Movie Writer
More credits
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1980
Cowboys
TV show Geyser
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1979
After Dark
Movie
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1979
Yanks
Movie Story
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1979
Blue Remembered Hills
Movie Willie
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1978
Watch That Space
Movie Self
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1977
Cottage to Let
TV show Albert Rodway
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1977
Sweeney!
Movie Frank Chadwick
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1976
Your Man from Six Counties
Movie Writer
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1976
Machinegunner
Movie Bone
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1975
A Passage to England
Movie Onslow
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1975
The Wild West Show
TV show Writer
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1975
The Sweeney
TV show Tober
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1974
Leeds United!
Movie
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1973
Jack Point
Movie Writer
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1973
Kisses at Fifty
Movie Writer
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1972
Bank Holiday
Movie Writer
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1971
Straw Dogs
Movie Rev. Barney Hood
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1971
Villain
Movie Tom Binney
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1971
The Ten Commandments
TV show Writer
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1970
Roll On Four O'Clock
Movie Lennie Brown
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1970
The Hallelujah Handshake
Movie Writer
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1970
Say Goodnight to Your Grandma
Movie Tony
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1970
Play for Today
TV show Willie
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1970
Kes
Movie Mr. Farthing
