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Colin Blakely. Actor: A Man for All Seasons. For a while he worked on the management side of his father's sporting goods firm in Belfast, but by the mid fifties he was in the chorus of an amateur dramatic and operatic society. He'd fallen for a girl member so joined the society to get to know her. While he soon got over her, he'd become fascinated by acting. He sang...
Colin George Blakely was a Northern Irish actor. He had roles in the films A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Equus (1977).
Colin Blakely. Highest Rated: 92% Evil Under the Sun (1982) Lowest Rated: 50% Nijinsky (1980) Birthday: Sep 23, 1930. Birthplace: Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK. Respected character ...
May 18, 1987 · Colin Blakely, a portly character actor whose portrayals of comic heroes and classical villains brought him widespread recognition in his native Great Britain, is dead of leukemia, it was learned ...
Colin George Blakely (23 September 1930 – 7 May 1987) was a Northern Irish character actor. He was considered an actor of great range. Description above from the Wikipedia article Colin Blakely, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Irish stage, film and TV actor Colin Blakely worked as a sporting goods salesman before turning to acting in his late 20s. Starting out in theatres in Belfast and Wales, he made his 1959 London debut in Sean O'Casey's Cock-a-Doodle-Dandy. Blakely spent most of the 1960s associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
Colin Blakely's early death from leukemia robbed British screen of a major character star. His chunky form and rumpled, good-natured features tended to direct him towards hero's-friend roles, like that in This Sporting Life (d. Lindsay Anderson, 1963), or as Dr Watson in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (d. Billy Wilder, 1970), but there was ...
