1934-07-04 ( 90 years old ) in 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 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.
Movies
The Fix
1997-01-04
Femme Fatale
1993-02-07
The Return of the Green Man
1990-11-16
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
1990-03-05
Dancin' Thru the Dark
1990-03-02
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
1987-07-15
United Kingdom
1981-12-08
After Dark
1979-10-19
Blue Remembered Hills
1979-01-30
Watch That Space
1978-01-01
Sweeney!
1977-01-14
Machinegunner
1976-04-01
A Passage to England
1975-12-09
Leeds United!
1974-10-31
Straw Dogs
1971-11-25
Villain
1971-05-26
Roll On Four O'Clock
1970-12-19
Say Goodnight to Your Grandma
1970-10-27
Kes
1970-04-03
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