Colin Blakely

Colin Blakely

actor, additional crew

Colin Blakely was born on Sep 23, 1930 in UK. Colin Blakely's big-screen debut came with Armchair Theatre - Season 4 directed by Philip Saville in 1960, strarring Keyser / AS. Walter Edge / Pat Greevey / .... Colin Blakely is known for Paradise Postponed directed by Alvin Rakoff, Annette Crosbie stars as Dorothy Simcox and Paul Shelley as Fred Simcox. The upcoming new tvshow Colin Blakely plays is Paradise Postponed - Season 1 which will be released on Sep 15, 1986.

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 in 'Annie Get Your Gun', played Judd in 'Oklahoma', then later joined the local repertory company. In 1959 moved to London where he quickly made a reputation as a character actor moving from theatre to films.

  • Birthday

    Sep 23, 1930
  • Place of Birth

    Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK

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