Colin Welland
Acting
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won
- 1982 Best Writing, Original Screenplay Won Chariots of Fire
BAFTA Awards 1 won
- 1971 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Won Kes
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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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Filmography
Acting
26 credits
Play for Today
Z-Cars
The Sweeney
Trial & Retribution
Bramwell
Straw Dogs
Kes
For the Greater Good
Cowboys
Femme Fatale
Armchair Theatre
Cottage to Let
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Machinegunner
United Kingdom
Villain
Dancin' Thru the Dark
The Fix
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Sweeney!
Watch That Space
Blue Remembered Hills
The Return of the Green Man
Roll On Four O'Clock
Say Goodnight to Your Grandma
A Passage to England
Writing
20 credits
Play for Today
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Screen One
Chariots of Fire
Yanks
The Ten Commandments
A Dry White Season
War of the Buttons
Bank Holiday
Armchair Theatre
Twice in a Lifetime
The Wild West Show
Leeds United!
Your Man from Six Counties
Jack Point
Roll On Four O'Clock
Kisses at Fifty
Say Goodnight to Your Grandma
The Hallelujah Handshake
Bambino Mio
Other credits
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