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...
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Straw Dogs
As Rev. Barney Hood
Villain
As Tom Binney
Kes
As Mr. Farthing
Sweeney!
As Frank Chadwick
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
As Reuters editor
The Fix
As Harry Catterick
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
As Klarsfeld
Femme Fatale
As Martin Harty
Say Goodnight to Your Grandma
As Tony
Blue Remembered Hills
As Willie
The Return of the Green Man
As Narrator
Dancin' Thru the Dark
As Manager
Leeds United!
United Kingdom
As Chief Constable James McBride
Machinegunner
As Bone
Roll On Four O'Clock
As Lennie Brown
A Passage to England
As Onslow
After Dark
Watch That Space
As Self
The Sweeney
As Tober
Bramwell
As Mr. Barclay
Z-Cars
As PC David Graham
Cowboys
As Geyser
Play for Today
As Willie