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Colin Edward Livingstone Tapley (7 May 1909 – 1 December 1995) was a New Zealand actor in both American and British films. Born in New Zealand, he served in the Royal Air Force and an expedition to Antarctica before winning a Paramount Pictures talent contest and moving to Hollywood.
Colin Tapley. Actor: Booloo. Born in 1909 in Dunedin, New Zealand. Brown hair, Blue eyes. In 1930 came to England joined Royal Air Force and took part in Byrd expedition. In 1933 took part in Paramount's Search for Beauty and was selected with Joyce Neilson to be the New Zealand winners out of 30 winners worldwide.
Tapley derived great personal satisfaction from playing Captain Dobbin in Becky Sharp (1935), the first movie filmed in three-colour Technicolor. But his favourite role from his Hollywood movies was probably Barrett, the spy, in Oscar-nominated adventure The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935).
Dec 1, 1995 · Colin Tapley (7 May 1907 – 1 December 1995) was a British actor. Born in New Zealand, he served in the Royal Air Force and an expedition to Antarctica before winning a Paramount Pictures talent contest and moving to Hollywood.
Colin Tapley was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Tapley kickstarted his acting career in various films such as "Limehouse Blues" (1934), the crime adaptation "Murder...
May 23, 2023 · Tapley was the contest’s male runner-up, and South African-born Eldred Tidbury the male winner. Tidbury changed his name to Donald Gray, and would appear with him more than 20 years later in British TV series The Vise. Tapley meanwhile acted in several Paramount movies of the mid-late 1930s.
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Colin Tapley was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Tapley kickstarted his acting career in various films such as "Limehouse Blues" (1934), the crime adaptation "Murder at the Vanities" (1934) with Carl Brisson and "The Double Door" (1934).
Cloudburst: Directed by Francis Searle. With Robert Preston, Elizabeth Sellars, Colin Tapley, Sheila Burrell. A Canadian World War II veteran working for the British Foreign Office scours England for the killer who murdered his wife.
A New Zealand actor Colin Tapley is listed in the role of Dr W H Glanville, a scientist who developed Dr Barnes Wallis' dam-busting "bouncing" bomb. Information is given about Heritage, an organisation to help the children of servicemen who died in the war.
