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James Bolam

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James Christopher Bolam is an English actor. , Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh, Trevor Chaplin in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, Arthur Gilder in Born and Bred, Jack Halford in New Tricks and the title character of Grandpa in the CBeebies programme Grandpa in My Pocket.

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Filmography 40

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner1962 · ★ 7.2
The End of the Affair1999 · ★ 6.6
The Plague Dogs1982 · ★ 7.8
Murder Most Foul1964 · ★ 7.1
O Lucky Man!1973 · ★ 6.8
To Kill a King2003 · ★ 5.8
The Island on Bird Street1997 · ★ 7.3
H.M.S. Defiant1962 · ★ 6.5
A Kind of Loving1962 · ★ 7.1
Straight On Till Morning1972
Otley1969
The Likely Lads1976
Stella Does Tricks1997
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers2009
Half a Sixpence1967
Crucible of Terror1972
Macbeth1983
Unconditional2012
In Celebration1975
Dirty Tricks2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings2000
Clockwork Mice1995
The Stalker's Apprentice1998
It Was an Accident2000
As You Like It1978
Eleven Men Against Eleven1995
The Kitchen1961
Harold Shipman: Doctor Death2002
Celebration2007
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves2016
Clash of Loyalties1983
The Missing Postman1997
A Memory Owed2025
The Philanthropist1975
The Limbo Connection1978
A Choice of Coward: Present Laughter1964
The Alex Ferguson Story1998
Tentboy2011
The Maze1983
For King and Country: Out There1963

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Television 24

Midsomer Murders1997
Play for Today1970
Dalziel and Pascoe1996
New Tricks2004
Omnibus1967
Thirty-Minute Theatre1965
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip2011
No Hiding Place1959
Remembers…2022
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes1971
The BBC Television Shakespeare1978
The Protectors1972
Public Eye1965
Second Thoughts1991
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?1973
Screen One1989
Marriage2022
Only When I Laugh1979
The Likely Lads1964
Budgie1971
He Knew He Was Right2004
Born and Bred2002
Thursday Theatre1964
Grandpa in My Pocket2009

Awards 1

Member of the Order of the British Empire

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About this person

James Christopher Bolam is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh, Trevor Chaplin in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, Arthur Gilder in Born and Bred, Jack Halford in New Tricks and the title character of Grandpa in the CBeebies programme Grandpa in My Pocket. He also played the serial killer Harold Shipman in the ITV drama Shipman and portrayed Harold Wilson in the BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
living
Dates
Born 1935 · age 91
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