Academy Award-winning British actor and screen writer Colin Welland has died at 81 after years of struggling with Alzheimer’s disease.
About Colin Welland :
- Welland was born to John Arthur “Jack” and Norah Williams in Leigh, Lancashire in 1934.
- Welland started his acting career in the BBC’s TV series, “Z-Cars”. He then starred as a (seemingly prophetic) villain Frank Chadwick in an episode of the 1970’s British TV police drama.
- He played the character Willie on Dennis Potter’s 1979 film “Blue Remembered Hills” and in the 1980 comedy series “Cowboys” and “Twice in a Lifetime“.
- He has won a BAFTA award in 1969 for playing the sympathetic English teacher Mr Farthing in Ken Loach’s Kes.
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