Colin Blakely Overview
Sep 23, 1930 Birth Place:
Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland
Irish stage, film and TV actor Colin Blakely worked as a sporting goods salesman before turning to acting in his late 20s. Starting out in theatres in Belfast and Wales, he made his 1959 London debut in Sean O'Casey's Cock-a-Doodle-Dandy. Blakely spent most of the 1960s associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Making his first film,...
King Lear (1984) 1984
Antony and Cleopatra 1981
The Dogs of War 1981
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) 1980
Nijinsky 1980
Equus 1977
The Pink Panther Strikes Again 1976
Love Among the Ruins 1975
Galileo 1975
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) 1974
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970
Alfred the Great 1969
A Man for All Seasons 1966
This Sporting Life 1963
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1961
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