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James Bolam

Born 1935-06-16
Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK

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?

Known For

7.0

A Memory Owed

2025 · Movie

6.2

Marriage

2022 · TV Show

7.0

Remembers…

2022 · TV Show

Wartime Christmas

2020 · Movie

5.7

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

2016 · Movie

6.0

Unconditional

2012 · Movie

Tentboy

2011 · Movie

6.0

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011 · TV Show

5.5

The Last Days of Lehman Brothers

2009 · Movie

7.5

Grandpa in My Pocket

2009 · TV Show

6.3

Celebration

2007 · Movie

The Plot Against Harold Wilson

2006 · Movie

7.6

He Knew He Was Right

2004 · TV Show

7.3

New Tricks

2004 · TV Show

5.8

To Kill a King

2003 · Movie

6.5

The Afternoon Play

2003 · TV Show

7.0

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death

2002 · Movie

9.0

Born and Bred

2002 · TV Show

7.0

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

2000 · Movie

8.5

Close and True

2000 · TV Show

6.7

It Was an Accident

2000 · Movie

5.5

Dirty Tricks

2000 · Movie

8.0

Pay and Display

2000 · TV Show

Stormin' Norman

2000 · Movie

6.5

The End of the Affair

1999 · Movie

5.0

The Alex Ferguson Story

1998 · Movie

4.6

The Stalker's Apprentice

1998 · Movie

6.5

Stella Does Tricks

1997 · Movie

7.3

The Island on Bird Street

1997 · Movie

7.5

The Missing Postman

1997 · TV Show

5.0

The Missing Postman

1997 · Movie

7.5

Midsomer Murders

1997 · TV Show

Have Your Cake and Eat It

1997 · TV Show

6.4

Dalziel and Pascoe

1996 · TV Show

7.2

Eleven Men Against Eleven

1995 · Movie

4.6

Clockwork Mice

1995 · Movie

7.0

Seaview Knights

1994 · Movie

6.7

Second Thoughts

1991 · TV Show

Sticky Wickets

1990 · Movie

7.2

Screen One

1989 · TV Show

Communicators From Hell

1989 · Movie

7.8

The Beiderbecke Connection

1988 · TV Show

6.0

Andy Capp

1988 · TV Show

6.8

The Beiderbecke Tapes

1987 · TV Show

5.0

Room at the Bottom

1986 · TV Show

7.9

The Beiderbecke Affair

1985 · TV Show

6.4

Macbeth

1983 · Movie

7.7

Shades of Darkness

1983 · TV Show

ITV Christmas Comedy

1983 · TV Show

The Maze

1983 · Movie

7.5

Clash of Loyalties

1983 · Movie

7.8

The Plague Dogs

1982 · Movie

6.7

Only When I Laugh

1979 · TV Show

Fish and Ships

1979 · Movie

8.2

As You Like It

1978 · Movie

6.0

The BBC Television Shakespeare

1978 · TV Show

8.0

The Limbo Connection

1978 · Movie

4.7

Armchair Thriller

1978 · TV Show

6.3

The Likely Lads

1976 · Movie

7.7

When the Boat Comes In

1976 · TV Show

8.0

The Philanthropist

1975 · Movie

5.2

In Celebration

1975 · Movie

If You Could See What I Can See

1974 · Movie

Oranges and Lemons

1973 · TV Show

Making the Play

1973 · Movie

6.8

O Lucky Man!

1973 · Movie

7.7

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

1973 · TV Show

6.1

The Protectors

1972 · TV Show

5.6

Straight On Till Morning

1972 · Movie

5.1

Crucible of Terror

1972 · Movie

7.5

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

1971 · TV Show

7.2

Budgie

1971 · TV Show

6.6

Play for Today

1970 · TV Show

W. Somerset Maugham

1969 · TV Show

6.3

Otley

1969 · Movie

Omnibus - Graham Greene: The Hunted Man

1968 · Movie

6.0

Half a Sixpence

1967 · Movie

7.2

Omnibus

1967 · TV Show

6.0

Inheritance

1967 · TV Show

Boy Meets Girl

1967 · TV Show

4.2

Thirty-Minute Theatre

1965 · TV Show

8.2

Public Eye

1965 · TV Show

7.3

The Likely Lads

1964 · TV Show

Thursday Theatre

1964 · TV Show

7.0

A Choice of Coward

1964 · TV Show

8.0

A Choice of Coward: Present Laughter

1964 · Movie

The Four Seasons of Rosie Carr

1964 · TV Show

7.1

Murder Most Foul

1964 · Movie

It's Dark Outside

1964 · TV Show

For King and Country: Out There

1963 · Movie

7.2

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

1962 · Movie

6.6

H.M.S. Defiant

1962 · Movie

7.1

A Kind of Loving

1962 · Movie

7.2

The Kitchen

1961 · Movie

Drama 61-67

1961 · TV Show

4.8

No Hiding Place

1959 · TV Show

6.0

Armchair Theatre

1956 · TV Show

Full Filmography

97 titles, newest first

7.0

A Memory Owed

2025 · Movie

6.2

Marriage

2022 · TV Show

7.0

Remembers…

2022 · TV Show

Wartime Christmas

2020 · Movie

5.7

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

2016 · Movie

6.0

Unconditional

2012 · Movie

Tentboy

2011 · Movie

6.0

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011 · TV Show