
Colin Welland
Oyuncu · 1934 – 2015 · Liverpool, England
Actor and writer Colin Welland will perhaps be forever remembered for his triumph at the 1982 Academy Awards, when he won the Best Screenplay Oscar for his screenplay for the hit film Chariots of Fire, proclaiming "The British are Coming!" As an actor, his first film appearance is perhaps still his best-loved, the sympathetic Mr Farthing in Kes (1969), for which he won a BAFTA. Born in Liverpool, but raised in Leigh, Welland initially started out as an art teacher before moving into acting and becoming a household name playing the role of PC Graham in the long running BBC police serial Z Cars. Aside from Chariots of Fire, he wrote many other plays and films including the BAFTA winning Kisses at Fifty (later remade for Hollywood with Gene Hackman as Twice in a Lifetime), Leeds United! based on the rag trade strike that his own mother-in-law was active in, Yanks, A Dry White Season and War of the Buttons. As a film and TV actor his credits include Kes, Straw Dogs, Blue Remembered Hills, Cowboys and Sweeney! He died at the age of 81 on November 2, 2015, having suffered from Alzheimer's disease for several years.
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Film7.2GerilimDramDonald Webster (Riddaway) , Ken Hutchison (Norman Scutt) David ve karısı Amy, şehirdeki karmaşadan ve artan toplumsal şiddet olaylarından kaçarak Amy'nin doğup büyüdüğü kasabaya yerleşmeye karar verirler. Fakat kaçtıkları şiddet, hiç beklemedikleri bir şekilde onları bu küçük İngiliz kasabasında bulacaktır.Yeni taşındıkları eve bir garaj yaptırabilmek için tuttukları dört işçi, Amy'nin yıllar evvel erkek arkadaşı olan Charlie tarafından yönetilmektedir. Ama çok geçmeden bu grup, genç çiftin başına bela olur. David'le sürekli dalga geçerek Amy'ye de sarkıntılık ederler. David, son derece sakin bir tavırla olaylarla başa çıkmaya hatta kendini onların arasına kabul ettirmeye çalışsa bile korkunç olayların önüne geçmeyi başaramaz.
Film7.4DramBilly Casper İngiltere'nin en fakir semtlerinden birisinde yaşar. Okula konsantre olamayan ve kötü notlar alan Casper, ağabeyi tarafından sürekli dövülür ve diğer insanlar tarafından gözardı edilir. Birgün, Kestrel adında biriyle tanışır ve karakterinin o ana değin hiç farkında olmadığı bir tarafını keşfeder.
Film4.5MaceraTV MovieThe Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies.
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
1990 · 15 votes
Film7.1DramKomediLinda is out on her hen night while her fiance Dave is out on his stag night. Linda is having major doubts about getting married. Both groups end up at the same club, only to discover that its band is fronted by her ex-boyfriend - and the love of her life - Peter. Linda has to decide: does she stay and settle down with Dave, like her friends want her to, or does she chuck it all in and run away with Peter?
Dancin' Thru the Dark
1990 · 8 votes
Film6.0GerilimSuçA 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt-collector) turns amateur sleuth, but finds himself in hot water with local criminals.
Machinegunner
1976 · 2 votes
Film8.0DramTV MovieSicilian-born Maddalena has moved to a Devonshire village in England to escape volatile sexual tempers. She marries, but the lust she inspires in the villagers makes them drop dead. Maddalena has a devastating effect on nearly every man she meets – sometimes with unfortunate fatal results for those concerned. Everywhere she goes, Maddalena leaves a trail of bodies behind her.
Femme Fatale
1993 · 1 votes
Film6.1SuçDramIn 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
Villain
1971 · 48 votes
Film7.0DramTV MovieIncendiary 1981 Play for Today, written by Jim Allen and directed by Roland Joffé that tells the story of a group of housing estate residents who attempt to organise against persistent rent rises.
United Kingdom
1981 · 1 votes
Film6.7AksiyonSuçWhen one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squad detective feels compelled to investigate. He uncovers a conspiracy that reaches the heart of the government, and finds himself fitted up, suspended and under the scrutiny of Special Branch.
Sweeney!
1977 · 28 votes
FilmDramTV MovieDecades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.
Film3.8DramTV MovieThe story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw a number of British professional footballers were jailed and banned from football for life for conspiring to fix the results of matches. Prominent among those jailed and banned were the Sheffield Wednesday F.C. stars Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David Layne.
The Fix
1997 · 5 votes
FilmBelgeselColin Welland presents this public information film about the hazards of nighttime driving.
After Dark
1979
Film7.3TV MovieDramOn an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around, they indulge in spontaneous games and horseplay - sometimes echoing the distant war, at other times revealing their own insecurities and petty vindictiveness.
Blue Remembered Hills
1979 · 3 votes
FilmColin Welland's play about a wife, her mother, her mother-in-law and conflict.
FilmDramKomediAnand, his pretty cousin and their sick uncle are stranded in Amsterdam where they receive an offer to take them to England.
FilmBelgeselSince ancient times, the Green Man has been one of the most mysterious and menacing of mythical characters. He also has a familiar face as Robin Hood, Jack in the Green and on numerous pub signs. Across the arts from comic strips to classical opera, the Green Man is now making a comeback. Where is he taking us? Writer Sir Kingsley Amis, film director John Boorman, composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle and other leading artists offer their interpretations of the mystery in this Omnibus documentary film from 16th November, 1990.
Film10.0DramTV MovieThe true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
Leeds United!
1974 · 1 votes
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Dizi5.6BelgeselTalk ShowThe South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.
The South Bank Show
1978 · 7 votes
Dizi6.6DramPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Play for Today
1970 · 10 votes
Dizi7.3DramZ-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
Z-Cars
1962 · 7 votes
Dizi8.1Aksiyon ve MaceraDramJack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
The Sweeney
1975 · 28 votes
Dizi6.8SuçDramDevised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect, this vast police procedural follows police detectives in England as they investigate crimes and the trials that come about as a result.
Trial & Retribution
1997 · 13 votes
Dizi4.2DramThe story of Eleanor Bramwell , a pioneering female doctor in the late nineteenth century, and the struggles she has with her friends, her colleagues and society. Determined to take the medical profession out of the dark ages, her strongly held opinions often draw her into conflict with the chief surgeon, a man keener on tradition than he is on progress.
Bramwell
1995 · 6 votes
Dizi6.0DramArmchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
Armchair Theatre
1956 · 6 votes
Dizi9.0SuçDramFor the Greater Good is a three-part 1991 BBC Two television drama serial written by G.F. Newman and directed by Danny Boyle. It centres on three politicians attempting to reform the British prison system. However, their efforts are undermined when the tabloid press exposes their private lives.
For the Greater Good
1991 · 1 votes
Dizi7.5KomediCowboys is a British sitcom that aired on the ITV network during the early 1980s. The show was created by Peter Learmouth whom would go on to create Granada television sitcom Surgical Spirit and starred Lancastrian Character-actor Roy Kinnear as Joe Jones "whose small building firm hardly seems to do anything right at all" with co-stars David Kelly as 'Wobbly' Ron, "Oscar-Winning Writer" Colin Welland as Geyser and James Wardroper with Debbie Linden and Janine Duvitski. The show is based on the British colloquial use of "cowboy" to describe a workman of doubtful professionalism e.g. a "cowboy builder".
Cowboys
1980 · 4 votes
- DiziDram
Series of plays about the comic and tragic situations of people who rent a country cottage.
Cottage to Let
1977