James Bolam

Acting

Born 16/06/1935
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?

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Known For

A Memory Owed
2025
Marriage
2022
Remembers…
2022
Wartime Christmas
2020
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Unconditional
2012
Tentboy
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
2009
Grandpa in My Pocket
2009
Celebration
2007
The Plot Against Harold Wilson
2006
He Knew He Was Right
2004
New Tricks
2004
To Kill a King
2003
The Afternoon Play
2003
Harold Shipman: Doctor Death
2002
Born and Bred
2002
Great Comedy Moments
2001
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
Close and True
2000
It Was an Accident
2000
Dirty Tricks
2000
Pay and Display
2000
Stormin' Norman
2000
The End of the Affair
1999
The Alex Ferguson Story
1998
The Stalker's Apprentice
1998
Stella Does Tricks
1997
The Island on Bird Street
1997
The Missing Postman
1997
The Missing Postman
1997
Midsomer Murders
1997
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Eleven Men Against Eleven
1995
Clockwork Mice
1995
Second Thoughts
1991
Sticky Wickets
1990
Screen One
1989
Communicators From Hell
1989
The Beiderbecke Connection
1988
Andy Capp
1988
The Beiderbecke Tapes
1987
The Beiderbecke Affair
1985
Macbeth
1983
Shades of Darkness
1983
ITV Christmas Comedy
1983
The Maze
1983
Clash of Loyalties
1983
The Plague Dogs
1982
Only When I Laugh
1979
Fish and Ships
1979
As You Like It
1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
Armchair Thriller
1978
The Likely Lads
1976
When the Boat Comes In
1976
In Celebration
1975
Making the Play
1973
O Lucky Man!
1973
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
1973
The Protectors
1972
Straight On Till Morning
1972
Crucible of Terror
1972
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
Budgie
1971
Budgie
1971
Play for Today
1970
Otley
1969
Omnibus - Graham Greene: The Hunted Man
1968
Half a Sixpence
1967
Omnibus
1967
Boy Meets Girl
1967
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Public Eye
1965
The Likely Lads
1964
A Choice of Coward: Present Laughter
1964
A Choice of Coward
1964
Murder Most Foul
1964
It's Dark Outside
1964
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962
H.M.S. Defiant
1962
A Kind of Loving
1962
The Kitchen
1961
No Hiding Place
1959
Armchair Theatre
1956