Colin Welland (born 4 July 1934) lived in Boaler Street, Kensington, Liverpool, before moving to Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire as a child. His parents were Jack and Nora Williams. He is an English actor and screenwriter and a Rugby League fanatic. He appeared as PC David Graham in the BBC Television series Z-Cars, and in films, including Kes (1969), before also concentrating on writing. He also appeared in the film Dancin' Thru the Dark in 1990.

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  • Colin Welland (born 4 July 1934) lived in Boaler Street, Kensington, Liverpool, before moving to Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire as a child. His parents were Jack and Nora Williams. He is an English actor and screenwriter and a Rugby League fanatic. He appeared as PC David Graham in the BBC Television series Z-Cars, and in films, including Kes (1969), before also concentrating on writing. He also appeared in the film Dancin' Thru the Dark in 1990. In Kes he played an English school teacher; a job which (like fellow Kes actor Brian Glover and its writer Barry Hines) he had had in real life, having taught art at Manchester Road Secondary Modern school in Leigh, where he was known as "Ted" Williams because of his Teddy Boy curly hair style. Amongst his pupils was the future author of Psychic Pets and numerous other books on the paranormal, John G. Sutton who was once "slippered" by "Ted" for talking during school meals. His other writing credits include the 1979 film Yanks, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Richard Gere, and directed by John Schlesinger. The same year he appeared in Dennis Potter's "Blue Remembered Hills", playing the character of "Willie". He won the award for Best Original Screenplay for Chariots of Fire at the 1982 Academy Awards, and his acceptance speech famously included the phrase: "The British are coming!" (a quotation from Paul Revere). In Chariots of Fire the sign outside the Church of Scotland in Paris shows the preacher for the 9 am worship to be "CM Welland".
  • Colin Welland ist ein britischer Drehbuchautor, Schauspieler und ehemaliger Kunstlehrer. Welland kam 1962 zum Fernsehen und spielte in der Serie Z-Cars einen Polizisten. Im selben Jahr heiratete er Patricia Sweeney, mit der er später vier Kinder haben sollte. Seine erste Spielfilmerfahrung als Schauspieler machte er im 1969 erschienenen Film Kes, für den er 1971 den BAFTA Award als besten Nebendarsteller erhielt. Ebenfalls ausgezeichnet wurde sein Drehbuch zur TV-Serie Play for Today. In den Jahren 1970, 1973 und 1974 wurde er zum besten TV-Drehbuchautor in Großbritannien gewählt. 1979 spielte er im TV-Film Blue Rememberd Hills ein Kind und tollte in kurzen Hosen durch Wälder und Felder. Im gleichen Jahr arbeitete Welland als Autor für John Schlesinger. Nach dem Erfolg des Films Yanks - Gestern waren wir noch Fremde entschied er sich, sich auf das Verfassen von Drehbüchern zu konzentrieren. 1981 ging der Oscar für das Beste Originaldrehbuch für Die Stunde des Siegers an ihn.
  • Ha vinto l'Oscar alla migliore sceneggiatura originale nel 1982 per il film Momenti di gloria. Ha vinto un BAFTA al miglior attore non protagonista per la sua interpretazione nel film Kes.
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  • Colin Welland (born 4 July 1934) lived in Boaler Street, Kensington, Liverpool, before moving to Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire as a child. His parents were Jack and Nora Williams. He is an English actor and screenwriter and a Rugby League fanatic. He appeared as PC David Graham in the BBC Television series Z-Cars, and in films, including Kes (1969), before also concentrating on writing. He also appeared in the film Dancin' Thru the Dark in 1990.
  • Colin Welland ist ein britischer Drehbuchautor, Schauspieler und ehemaliger Kunstlehrer. Welland kam 1962 zum Fernsehen und spielte in der Serie Z-Cars einen Polizisten. Im selben Jahr heiratete er Patricia Sweeney, mit der er später vier Kinder haben sollte. Seine erste Spielfilmerfahrung als Schauspieler machte er im 1969 erschienenen Film Kes, für den er 1971 den BAFTA Award als besten Nebendarsteller erhielt. Ebenfalls ausgezeichnet wurde sein Drehbuch zur TV-Serie Play for Today.
  • Ha vinto l'Oscar alla migliore sceneggiatura originale nel 1982 per il film Momenti di gloria. Ha vinto un BAFTA al miglior attore non protagonista per la sua interpretazione nel film Kes.
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