Colin Welland
- Schauspiel
- 4. Juli 1934 · Liverpool, England
- 2. November 2015
Biografie
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.
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Filmografie
- Der Preis des Verbrechens · Mallory
- The Fix · Harry Catterick
- Bramwell · Mr. Barclay
- Krieg der Knöpfe · Buch
- Bambino Mio · Buch
- Femme Fatale · Martin Harty
- For the Greater Good · Sir David Whites
- The Return of the Green Man · Narrator
- Spymaker - Das geheime Leben des Ian Fleming · Reuters editor
- Dancin' Thru the Dark · Manager
- Weiße Zeit der Dürre · Drehbuch
- Screen One · Buch
- The Trial of Klaus Barbie · Klarsfeld
- Zweimal im Leben · Buch
- United Kingdom · Chief Constable James McBride
- Die Stunde des Siegers · Buch
- Cowboys · Geyser
- After Dark
- Yanks - Gestern waren wir noch Fremde · Geschichte, Drehbuch
- Blue Remembered Hills · Willie
- The South Bank Show
- Watch That Space · Selbst
- Cottage to Let · Albert Rodway
- Deckname Sweeney · Frank Chadwick
- Your Man from Six Counties · Buch
- Machinegunner · Bone
- A Passage to England · Onslow
- The Wild West Show · Buch
- Die Füchse · Tober
- Leeds United! · Buch
- Village Hall · Ted
- Jack Point · Buch
- Kisses at Fifty · Buch
- Bank Holiday · Buch
- Wer Gewalt sät... · Rev. Barney Hood
- Die alles zur Sau machen · Tom Binney
- The Ten Commandments · Buch
- Roll On Four O'Clock · Lennie Brown, Buch
- The Hallelujah Handshake · Buch
- Say Goodnight to Your Grandma · Tony, Buch
- Play for Today · Willie, Buch
- Kes · Mr. Farthing
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre · Buch
- Z-Cars · PC David Graham
- Armchair Theatre · Tony, Buch