Colin Welland
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 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.
Acted Movies
Director: Ken Loach
Writers: Ken Loach,
Cast: Bernard Atha, Bob Bowes, Brian Glover, Colin Welland, David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Joey Kaye, Laurence Bould, Lynne Perrie, Ted Carroll,
Written Movies
Director: John Roberts
Writers: Colin Welland,
Cast: Anthony Cunnigham, Brendan McNamara, Colm Meaney, Darragh Naughton, Ger Ryan, Gerard Kearney, Gregg Fitzgerald, John Cleere, Kevin O'Malley, Liam Cunningham,
Director: Hugh Hudson
Writers: Colin Welland,
Cast: Alice Krige, Ben Cross, Cheryl Campbell, Daniel Gerroll, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Lindsay Anderson, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers,