Colin Blakely
About
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Birth Place
United Kingdom
Born
September 23, 1930
Died
May 07, 1987
Cause of Death
Leukemia
Biography
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Respected character player who specialized at portraying the hero's best mate in numerous British "angry young man" films of the 1960s. Blakely also played Dr. Watson in Billy Wilder's "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970)....
Filmography
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Loophole
(1986)
Red Monarch
(1983)
Josef Stalin
Evil Under The Sun
(1982)
Sir Horace Blatt
The Day Christ Died
(1980)
The Dogs Of War
(1980)
North
Little Lord Fauntleroy
(1980)
Hobbs
Family & Companions
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Margaret Whiting
Wife
Actor. British.
Biography
Respected character player who specialized at portraying the hero's best mate in numerous British "angry young man" films of the 1960s. Blakely also played Dr. Watson in Billy Wilder's "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970).
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
Loophole
(1986)
Red Monarch
(1983)
Josef Stalin
Evil Under The Sun
(1982)
Sir Horace Blatt
The Day Christ Died
(1980)
The Dogs Of War
(1980)
North
Little Lord Fauntleroy
(1980)
Hobbs
Nijinsky
(1980)
Meetings With Remarkable Men
(1979)
The Tamil
All Things Bright And Beautiful
(1978)
Siegfried
The Big Sleep
(1978)
Equus
(1977)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
(1976)
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
(1975)
Siegfried Farnon
Love Among the Ruins
(1975)
Galileo
(1974)
Murder on the Orient Express
(1974)
Young Winston
(1972)
Butcher
Something to Hide
(1971)
Blagdon
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
(1970)
Dr. John H. Watson
Decline and Fall ... of a Bird Watcher
(1969)
Philbrick
Alfred the Great
(1969)
Asher
Charlie Bubbles
(1968)
Smokey Pickles
The Vengeance of She
(1968)
George
The Day the Fish Came Out
(1967)
The Pilot
A Man for All Seasons
(1966)
Matthew
The Spy With a Cold Nose
(1966)
Russian premier
The Counterfeit Constable
(1966)
Underworld Informers
(1965)
Charlie Ruskin
The Long Ships
(1964)
Rhykka
Never Put It in Writing
(1964)
Oscar
This Sporting Life
(1963)
Maurice Braithwaite
The Hellions
(1962)
Matthew Billings
The Password Is Courage
(1962)
German goon
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
(1961)
Loudmouth
Cast (Special)
King Lear
(1984)
Kent
Life Events
1959
London stage debut at Royal Court Theatre in "Cock-a-Doodle-Dandy"
1960
Film acting debut as Loudmouth in Karel Reisz's "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"
1961
Joined Royal Shakespeare Company for one season (subsequently returned to Royal Court)
1963
After featured role in "This Sporting Life" (1963), joined National Theatre, London; remained company member for five years
Videos
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Companions
Margaret Whiting
Wife
Actor. British.
