Colin Welland

Acting

Colin Welland

Born 1934-07-04 Liverpool, England 19 films

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…

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Filmography

19 films
The Fix poster

The story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw a…

The Fix

★ 3.8 1997

Femme Fatale poster

Sicilian-born Maddalena has moved to a Devonshire village in England to escape volatile sexual temp…

Femme Fatale

★ 8.0 1993

United Kingdom poster

Incendiary 1981 Play for Today, written by Jim Allen and directed by Roland Joffé that tells the st…

United Kingdom

★ 7.0 1981

After Dark poster

Colin Welland presents this public information film about the hazards of nighttime driving.

After Dark

★ 0.0 1979

Sweeney! poster

When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying sq…

Sweeney!

★ 6.7 1977

Machinegunner poster

A 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt-collector) turns amateur sleuth, but finds himself…

Machinegunner

★ 6.0 1976