# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-mcfarlane
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:12:29.999Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-mcfarlane"
name: "Colin McFarlane"
slug: "colin-mcfarlane"
description: "Colin Andrew Ignatius Peter McFarlane is a British actor, narrator and voice actor. He is known for his roles in film and television including comedy sketch show The Fast Show, Gillian B. Loeb in two films of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2008) and Ulysses in the STARZ series Outlander (2018–2020). McFarlane's voice roles include JJ in Bob the Builder (2001–2003), Bulgy and Beresford in Thomas & Friends (2017–2020) and PC Malcolm Williams in Fireman Sam (2020–). He was the voice of The Cube (2009–2021) in the ITV game show, and is currently voicing Suds from Milo (2021–present)."
tagline: "British actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colin_McFarlane_at_the_Sasnak_City_Outlander_Convention_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1961-09-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.35
  momentum:             1.917879417879418
  historical:           12.146068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568801/"
    handle:    "nm0568801"
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    title: "Colin McFarlane"
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    title: "کالین مک‌فارلن"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump