James Bolam

AKA: Джеймс Болэм
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1935-06-16

Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK

Biography

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?

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Mr. Savage

1999-12-03 6.6

The End of the Affair

On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Moss

2000-09-24 5.333

Dirty Tricks

Martin Clunes plays Edward, an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Seemingly charming and thoughtful, Edward is really a calculating liar and manipulator. A series of events triggered at a din ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

The Tod (voice)

1982-10-01 7.85

The Plague Dogs

Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parties and then the military after rumors spread that ...
Genre :Adventure, Animation, Drama

Jeff

1962-04-12 7

A Kind of Loving

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what l ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Joey

1972-07-09 5.643

Straight On Till Morning

Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. However, little does Brenda know that Peter is a vicious serial killer. ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery

Norman

2000-01-01 0

Stormin' Norman

A monologue drama from Chris Chibnall starring James Bolam as a tube driver on his last day before retirement ...
Genre :

Wackey

1995-06-22 4.2

Clockwork Mice

When new teacher Steve Drake joins the faculty at a school for special-needs students, his unorthodox instruction methods raise eyebrows. But attitudes begin to change when he makes a connection with ...
Genre :Drama

Mike

1962-09-20 7.2

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor through his prowess as a long distance runner. He is en ...
Genre :Drama

Glyn

1990-10-14 0

Sticky Wickets

It's a big night at the New Dragon Inn when a coach of distinguished Germans arrives. But disaster looms - it's the local cricket team's annual fancy dress bash and the theme is the Second World War. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

Doctor Studjinsky

1997-04-11 7.2

The Island on Bird Street

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Denzil Holles

2003-05-16 5.715

To Kill a King

A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

Terry

1976-02-01 6.237

The Likely Lads

With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads’ favoured watering hole The Fat Ox. Again, it’s Bob rather than Terry who is visibly distressed by ...
Genre :Comedy

Midshipman (uncredited)

1962-04-15 6.5

H.M.S. Defiant

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficu ...
Genre :Adventure, History, War

John Davies

1972-04-13 4.9

Crucible of Terror

An obsessed sculptor kills a young women to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. Years later at his secluded home a number of people become trapped in a web of revenge, murder and horror. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror

Hutch

2012-06-25 5.964

Unconditional

A psychological romantic drama about teenage twins Owen and Kristen who fall under the sway of a charismatic young loan shark who offers love to one of them but on one condition. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Colin Shaw

1975-03-17 4.8

In Celebration

In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore. ...
Genre :Drama

Matt

2007-02-26 6.3

Celebration

All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an adjacent table a banker and his wife banter over his ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Ted Whitehead

1995-08-31 6.3

Eleven Men Against Eleven

A curtain raiser for the 1995-6 football season and a state of the Premiership comedy drama about the corrupt world of football. Sir Bob is a football club chairman and megalomaniac. As the season dra ...
Genre :Thriller, Comedy

Harold Wilson

2006-03-16 0

The Plot Against Harold Wilson

When Harold Wilson suddenly resigned as Labour prime minister resigned in 1976, most assumed there was a scandalous explanation. Eventually, rumours began to surface that powerful sections of the Esta ...
Genre :Documentary, Drama

Vernon Fitch

2000-10-27 6.6

It Was an Accident

An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Harold Shipman

2002-07-09 6.7

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death

James Bolam portrays serial killer Dr. Harold Shipman in this made-for-TV drama. The film follows the story of Shipman, a general practitioner who throughout his career is believed to have killed as m ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Michael

1961-08-14 7

The Kitchen

In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German c ...
Genre :Comedy

Baz

2011-11-08 0

Tentboy

Griff's parents are concerned about his grandfather's influence when he sets up a tent in the yard. ...
Genre :Family

Don

1975-10-28 0

The Philanthropist

The original play by Christopher Hampton, was adapted into this made-for-TV movie and it offers witty dialogue in the midst of remarkable conflict among its privileged characters. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Comedy

Arthur Frode

1983-01-24 0

The Maze

A couple move to a country estate that turns out to be haunted. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Mystery, Drama

Charlie

1974-05-15 0

If You Could See What I Can See

Trevor returns to his old home town to see his estranged wife and son, but fails to see why she is afraid of him. ...
Genre :

Clive Peacock

1997-03-28 5

The Missing Postman

When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpected rebellion he makes a decision that will change ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

Various Characters

2000-12-25 6.5

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests. ...
Genre :Comedy

A.T. Wilson

1983-01-02 5

Clash of Loyalties

During the British colonial period in Iraq, Sheikh Dhari and his tribe openly reject colonization and employ peaceful resistance against the British occupation. In response, the English forces resort ...
Genre :Drama, War

Ken Lewis

2009-09-09 5.5

The Last Days of Lehman Brothers

The heads of Wall Street's biggest investment banks were summoned to an evening meeting by the US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, to discuss the plight of another - Lehman Brothers. After six months ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Helmut Kranze

1998-05-25 3.667

The Stalker's Apprentice

When an absorbing new manuscript finds its way across his desk, Marcus Walwyn (Gideon Turner), an impressionable young publisher, befriends the book's author (Peter Davison) and suddenly has trouble l ...
Genre :Thriller, TV Movie, Crime, Drama

Mr. Peters

1997-11-06 6.4

Stella Does Tricks

A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life. ...
Genre :Drama

Terry Collier (archive footage) (uncredited)

2016-09-12 5.7

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the ...
Genre :Comedy, Documentary

Albert

1969-03-11 6.2

Otley

A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bill Hanson

1964-03-01 7.063

Murder Most Foul

A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Touchstone

1978-12-17 8

As You Like It

Orlando is forced to work like a servant for his brother Oliver, so he goes to win his fortune in a wrestling contest, where he meets a lady of the court, Rosalind. Rosalind (daughter of the deposed d ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie, Romance

Attenborough/Examination Doctor

1973-03-25 6.9

O Lucky Man!

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Fantasy, Drama

Porter

1983-11-05 6.4

Macbeth

Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down. ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator

1998-11-01 5

The Alex Ferguson Story

A look at the history of this legendary manager ...
Genre :Documentary

Husband

1973-07-02 0

Making the Play

They no longer live together because, after 11 years, the marriage is over. They're both agreed on that. So why is she always turning up to see him at the most embarrassing times? And why doesn't he f ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Mr Jones

1967-12-21 5.889

Half a Sixpence

"If I had the money, I'd buy me a banjo!" says struggling sales clerk Arthur Kipps. Soon he'll inherit enough to buy a whole bloomin' orchestra. But can his newfound wealth buy happiness? ...
Genre :Music, Drama, Romance

1989-01-01 0

Communicators From Hell

John Cleese training video. ...
Genre :

Roland Maule

1964-08-10 0

A Choice of Coward: Present Laughter

An aging and self-obsessed actor finds himself in a situation bordering on farce when he is besieged by the demands of his estranged wife, women who want to seduce him, and a crazed playwright. ...
Genre :

Stan

2025-09-15 7

A Memory Owed

Bound by unspoken grief, reclusive 91-year-old Stan and his young carer find unexpected solace on the windswept plains of a once-bustling WWII airfield, where memory still lingers. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Mark Omney

1978-05-02 0

The Limbo Connection

Mark Omney is a struggling writer, and has a drink problem; his wife Clare is more successful as a journalist. After a dinner-party they host ends badly, they part company the next morning on separate ...
Genre :

Herbert Hudd

1963-08-06 0

For King and Country: Out There

1915: Determined to do her bit for the country, young Annie Hudd has a burning desire to go to France to help the wounded soldiers but suffers many setbacks before her ambition to become a nurse on th ...
Genre :

Pinkie

1968-11-17 0

Omnibus - Graham Greene: The Hunted Man

A documentary portrait of Graham Greene, filmed as a traveling interview aboard the Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul. Directed by Christopher Burstall, the film follows Greene in conversation abo ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator

2020-12-23 0

Wartime Christmas

A family experiences what it was like to celebrate the first three Christmases of the 1940s, and the challenges and deprivations families faced during these times. The Dekkers learn how to black-out a ...
Genre :Documentary, History

Ron Pringle

1997-03-23 7.5

Midsomer Murders

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Wossname

1971-04-09 7

Budgie

Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972. Th ...
Genre :

Terry Collier

1973-01-09 7.7

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour sequel to the mid-1960s hit The Likely Lads. It was cre ...
Genre :Comedy

Bill

1991-05-03 6.6

Second Thoughts

Second thoughts is a British sitcom that ran from 3 May 1991 to 14 October 1994. It was broadcast on ITV and made by LWT. It was followed by a sequel, Faith in the future. Second thoughts followed th ...
Genre :Comedy

2000-07-12 0

Pay and Display

Pay And Display is a short-lived British sitcom starring James Bolam that lasted only one series. It was written by Dominic English. ...
Genre :

Terry Collier

1964-12-16 7.2

The Likely Lads

Terry Collier and Bob Ferris are good friends. Terry was working class and secure in his life, whereas Bob was more aspirational, determined to work his way to a better place. Both viewed the others' ...
Genre :Comedy

Trevor Chaplin

1988-11-27 7.3

The Beiderbecke Connection

The Beiderbecke Connection is a four-part British television serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1988. It is the third and final part of The Beiderbecke Trilogy and stars James Bolam and Ba ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Trevor Chaplin

1987-12-13 6.6

The Beiderbecke Tapes

The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part 1987 British television comedy-drama serial written by Alan Plater. The second installment in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, it stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as sch ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Trevor Chaplin

1985-01-01 7.8

The Beiderbecke Affair

The Beiderbecke Affair is a 1985 British television series produced for ITV, written by the prolific Alan Plater, whose lengthy credits included the preceding four-part miniseries Get Lost! (1981). T ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Roberts

1971-09-20 7.4

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Con ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

1959-09-16 3.7

No Hiding Place

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Husband

1970-10-15 6.3

Play for Today

Play 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 tel ...
Genre :Drama

Jack Halford

2004-01-01 7.356

New Tricks

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pul ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Clive Peacock

1997-03-29 6.7

The Missing Postman

Postman Clive Peacock decides to rebel when his employers force him to take early retirement. Setting off on his bike, he determines to deliver his last batch of post by hand all over the country. The ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2009-02-10 7.5

Grandpa in My Pocket

A Grandpa with a magic Shrinking Cap that only his grandson Jason knows about. When he puts the cap on Grandpa shrinks and creates comic mayhem, but somehow Grandpa and Jason always manage to save the ...
Genre :Family, Kids, Comedy

1986-11-09 5

Room at the Bottom

Genre :

Graham True

2000-11-23 10

Close and True

A good-intentioned but inexperienced man runs a Newcastle legal practice. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1983-04-23 0

ITV Christmas Comedy

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without the special edition of your favourtie comedy show to fill the gap between the staggeringly huge Christmas dinner and the Queen's speech, and the ITV network hav ...
Genre :Comedy

Alan Grove

1965-01-23 7.8

Public Eye

Public Eye is a British television drama broadcast from 1965 to 1975 on ITV1. Produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four, the programme follows the investiga ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mr. Crump

2004-04-18 7.6

He Knew He Was Right

An adaptation of the novel of the same name which follows the breakdown of a young couple's marriage, due to the husband's insecurity and jealousy. ...
Genre :Drama

Self - Participant

2011-10-24 5

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction ...
Genre :Talk

Mark Omney

1978-02-21 4.2

Armchair Thriller

Armchair Thriller is a British television programme, broadcast on ITV in two series in 1978 and 1980. Owing something to some of the off-shoots of the earlier Armchair Theatre, the new series used scr ...
Genre :Drama

Gerry

2022-08-14 6.471

Marriage

Marriage sees married couple Ian and Emma negotiate the ups and downs of their 30-year marriage. We see them dealing with the insecurities, the ambiguities, the hopes and the fears that are part of al ...
Genre :Drama

Max Toller

1972-09-29 5.8

The Protectors

The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his sec ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

Roland Maule

1964-08-10 7

A Choice of Coward

Series of four Noël Coward plays from ITV's 1964 "Play of the Week" slot. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Father Leonard Tibbings

1996-03-16 6.3

Dalziel & Pascoe

British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china- ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Pinkie

1967-10-13 7.2

Omnibus

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran fr ...
Genre :Documentary

David Oldroyd

1967-09-29 5

Inheritance

Inheritance was a 1967 Granada produced ITV drama based on a 1932 novel by Phyllis Bentley. The ten-part period drama revolved around the fortunes of the Oldroyds, a Yorkshire mill owning family from ...
Genre :Drama

Wossname Walsh

1971-04-09 7

Budgie

Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972. Th ...
Genre :

Andy Capp

1988-02-22 5.2

Andy Capp

Andy Capp is a British sitcom based on the cartoon Andy Capp. It starred James Bolam and ran for one series in 1988. It was written by Keith Waterhouse. Unusually, for a sitcom, there was no studio au ...
Genre :Comedy

Dr. Arthur Gilder

2002-04-21 8.5

Born and Bred

In the 1950s at the fictional Lancashire village of Ormston, a father and son, both doctors, navigate the challenges of running a cottage hospital under the newly established National Health Service. ...
Genre :Drama

Wilfred

1964-01-03 0

It's Dark Outside

This spin-off from The Odd Man (1962) starred William Mervyn as the acerbic Inspector Rose, who, alongside the soft-hearted pensive Det. Sgt. Swift (Keith Barron), are joined by Anthony (John Carson) ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Roy Figgis

1979-10-29 6.7

Only When I Laugh

Only When I Laugh is an ITV1 sitcom broadcast from 29 October 1979 to 16 December 1982 for four series with seven episodes each, and a Christmas special in 1981. The title is the answer to the questio ...
Genre :Comedy

Billy

2003-01-27 0

The Afternoon Play

The Afternoon Play is a British television anthology series of standalone contemporary dramas aired during the afternoons of 2003–07 on BBC One, featuring well-known actors in one-off stories. A dayti ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Mystery

Jack Ford

1976-01-08 6.5

When the Boat Comes In

When the Boat Comes In is a British television period drama produced by the BBC between 8 January 1976 and 21 April 1981. Taking place between 1919 to 1937, Jack Ford is a First World War veteran who ...
Genre :Drama

1961-03-19 0

Drama 61-67

Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated with Armchair Theatre from ABC in the Sunday evening slot. The series was de ...
Genre :Drama

Nick

1961-03-19 0

Drama 61-67

Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated with Armchair Theatre from ABC in the Sunday evening slot. The series was de ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2022-06-29 0

Remembers…

What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making some of the most popular and influential programmes of all time. ...
Genre :Documentary, Talk