Colin Blakely
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Colin Blakely (born September 23, 1930, died May 7, 1987) was a British character actor.
He was born in Bangor, Northern Ireland and attended Sedbergh School, in Yorkshire. Among his most celebrated film roles were as Maurice Braithwaite in This Sporting Life (1963) and as Dr. Watson to Robert Stephens's Holmes in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970). Other roles include The National Health, A Man for All Seasons, Young Winston, Murder on the Orient Express, Antony and Cleopatra, Loophole and Paradise Postponed.
He also played Kent in the 1984 TV film version of King Lear which starred Laurence Olivier.
He died in England, of leukemia at the age of 56.
[edit] External links
- Colin Blakely at the Internet Movie Database
- Colin Blakely at the TCM Movie Database
