- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- July 4, 1934
- Place of Birth
- Liverpool, England
- Died
- November 2, 2015
Colin Welland
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…
Filmography
tvTrial & Retribution
1997 · Mallory
movieThe Fix
1997 · Harry Catterick
tvBramwell
1995 · Mr. Barclay
movieWar of the Buttons
1994 · Writer
movieBambino Mio
1994 · Writer
movieFemme Fatale
1993 · Martin Harty
tvFor the Greater Good
1991 · Sir David Whites
movieThe Return of the Green Man
1990 · Narrator
movieThe Secret Life of Ian Fleming
1990 · Reuters editor
movieDancin' Thru the Dark
1990 · Manager
movieA Dry White Season
1989 · Screenplay
tvScreen One
1989 · Writer
movieThe Trial of Klaus Barbie
1987 · Klarsfeld
movieTwice in a Lifetime
1985 · Writer
movieUnited Kingdom
1981 · Chief Constable James McBride
movieChariots of Fire
1981 · Writer
tvCowboys
1980 · Geyser
movieAfter Dark
1979
movieYanks
1979 · Story, Screenplay
movieBlue Remembered Hills
1979 · Willie
movieWatch That Space
1978 · Self
Cottage to Let
tvCottage to Let
1977 · Albert Rodway
movieSweeney!
1977 · Frank Chadwick
movieYour Man from Six Counties
1976 · Writer
movieMachinegunner
1976 · Bone
movieA Passage to England
1975 · Onslow
The Wild West Show
tvThe Wild West Show
1975 · Writer
tvThe Sweeney
1975 · Tober
movieLeeds United!
1974 · , Writer
movieJack Point
1973 · Writer
movieKisses at Fifty
1973 · Writer
movieBank Holiday
1972 · Writer
movieStraw Dogs
1971 · Rev. Barney Hood
movieVillain
1971 · Tom Binney
The Ten Commandments
tvThe Ten Commandments
1971 · Writer
movieRoll On Four O'Clock
1970 · Lennie Brown, Writer
movieThe Hallelujah Handshake
1970 · Writer
movieSay Goodnight to Your Grandma
1970 · Tony, Writer
tvPlay for Today
1970 · Willie, Writer
movieKes
1970 · Mr. Farthing
tvITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Writer
tvZ-Cars
1962 · PC David Graham
tvArmchair Theatre
1956 · Tony, Writer