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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.
Colin George Blakely (23 September 1930 – 7 May 1987) 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).
Birthday: Sep 23, 1930. Birthplace: Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK. Respected character player who specialized at portraying the hero's best mate in numerous British "angry young man"...
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. Known For. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. The Pink Panther Strikes Again.
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.
Respected character player who specialized at portraying the hero's best mate in numerous British "angry young man" films of the 1960s. Blakely also played Dr. Watson in Billy Wilder's "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970).
