Colin Welland
- Interprétation
- 4 juillet 1934 · Liverpool, England
- 2 novembre 2015
Biographie
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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Filmographie
- Scotland Yard, crimes sur la Tamise · Mallory
- The Fix · Harry Catterick
- Bramwell · Mr. Barclay
- La Guerre des boutons, ça recommence · Scénario
- Bambino Mio · Scénario
- Femme Fatale · Martin Harty
- For the Greater Good · Sir David Whites
- The Return of the Green Man · Narrator
- La vie secrète de Ian Fleming · Reuters editor
- Dancin' Thru the Dark · Manager
- Une saison blanche et sèche · Scénario
- Screen One · Scénario
- The Trial of Klaus Barbie · Klarsfeld
- Soleil d'automne · Scénario
- United Kingdom · Chief Constable James McBride
- Les Chariots de Feu · Scénario
- Cowboys · Geyser
- After Dark
- Yanks · Histoire, Scénario
- Blue Remembered Hills · Willie
- The South Bank Show
- Watch That Space · En personne
- Cottage to Let · Albert Rodway
- Sweeney! · Frank Chadwick
- Your Man from Six Counties · Scénario
- Machinegunner · Bone
- A Passage to England · Onslow
- The Wild West Show · Scénario
- The Sweeney · Tober
- Leeds United! · Scénario
- Village Hall · Ted
- Jack Point · Scénario
- Kisses at Fifty · Scénario
- Bank Holiday · Scénario
- Les Chiens de paille · Rev. Barney Hood
- Salaud · Tom Binney
- The Ten Commandments · Scénario
- Roll On Four O'Clock · Lennie Brown, Scénario
- The Hallelujah Handshake · Scénario
- Say Goodnight to Your Grandma · Tony, Scénario
- Play for Today · Willie, Scénario
- Kes · Mr. Farthing
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre · Scénario
- Z-Cars · PC David Graham
- Armchair Theatre · Tony, Scénario