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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.
Most Popular Colin Welland Trailers
Total trailers found: 30
01 April 1976
A 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt-collector) turns amateur sleuth, but finds himself in hot water with local criminals.
01 September 1979
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.
20 September 1989
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
07 February 1993
Sicilian-born Maddalena has moved to a Devonshire village in England to escape volatile sexual tempers.
26 May 1971
In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
29 September 1994
War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.
05 March 1990
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies.
15 May 1981
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics.
22 January 1973
A father leaves his grown-up family to move in with his lover in the south, alienating himself from his four children.
09 December 1975
Anand, his pretty cousin and their sick uncle are stranded in Amsterdam where they receive an offer to take them to England.
06 February 1994
A woman fights to adopt a war baby from the Third World after becoming unable to conceive.
08 December 1981
Incendiary 1981 Play for Today, written by Jim Allen and directed by Roland Joffé that tells the story of a group of housing estate residents who attempt to organise against persistent rent rises.
26 October 1976
When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland.
04 January 1997
The story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw a number of British professional footballers were jailed and banned from football for life for conspiring to fix the results of matches.
25 November 1971
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised.
01 November 1973
Rivalry at a local Gilbert and Sullivan Society over who will play Jack Point in the Silver Jubilee production.
03 April 1970
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes.
01 January 1978
Colin Welland presents this confined spaces training video from the Health and Safety Executive, detailing the hazards of entering any confined space without the neccessary awareness, training & equipment.
27 October 1970
Colin Welland's play about a wife, her mother, her mother-in-law and conflict.
15 July 1987
Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.
17 December 1970
Henry sets out to join a church and passionately help the parish. Slowly but surely his habits of exaggeration and lying begin to catch up with him.
16 November 1990
Since ancient times, the Green Man has been one of the most mysterious and menacing of mythical characters.
14 January 1977
When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squad detective feels compelled to investigate.
02 March 1972
18-year-old friends Todd and Towzer set off by motorbike to spend a Bank Holiday weekend in Scarborough.
19 October 1979
Colin Welland presents this public information film about the hazards of nighttime driving.
19 December 1970
Compelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low expectations and ambitions.
23 October 1985
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life.
02 March 1990
Linda's out on her hen night, her fiance is out on his stag night. Linda is having major doubts about getting married, when both groups arrive at a club, to find the band fronted by her ex-boyfriend—and the love of her life—Peter.
30 January 1979
On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests.
31 October 1974
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
