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Colin Blakely

Colin Blakely

Highest Rated: 92% Evil Under the Sun (1982)

Lowest Rated: 50% Nijinsky (1980)

Birthday: Sep 23, 1930

Birthplace: Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK

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).

Highest rated movies

92% Evil Under the Sun
90% Murder on the Orient Express
89% The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
72% The Pink Panther Strikes Again
70% The Dogs of War
70% Equus
57% The Big Sleep
54% The Long Ships

Photos

PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Robert Stephens, Genevieve Page, Colin Blakely, 1970 THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Robert Stephens, Genevieve Page, Colin Blakely, 1970 THIS SPORTING LIFE, Richard Harris (front center), Colin Blakely (front right), 1963 ALFRED THE GREAT, David Hemmings (center), Colin Blakely (right), 1969 CHARLIE BUBBLES, Colin Blakely, Albert Finney, 1967 PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Colin Blakely, Robert Stephens, 1970 PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Colin Blakely, Robert Stephens, 1970 PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Colin Blakely, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl, 1970 PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Robert Stephens, Genevieve Page, Colin Blakely, 1970 THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, 1970 THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Colin Blakely, Robert Stephens, 1970 THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, 1970 EVIL UNDER THE SUN, Roddy McDowall (reclining), seated from left: Sylvia Miles, James Mason, standing from left: Peter Ustinov, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin, Nicholas Clay, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Emily Hone, Denis Quilley, 1982, © Universal EVIL UNDER THE SUN, from left: Colin Blakely, Peter Ustinov, 1982, © Universal EVIL UNDER THE SUN, (rear) Peter Ustinov, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin, Nicholas Clay, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Denis Quilley, (center) Sylvia Miles, James Mason, Emily Hone, (front) Roddy McDowall, 1982, (c) Universal EVIL UNDER THE SUN, Diana Rigg, Denis Quilley, Maggie Smith, Sylvia Miles, Colin Blakely, 1982, (c) Universal THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Robert Stephens, Genevieve Page, Colin Blakely, 1970 THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Colin Blakely, Robert Stephens, Genevieve Page, 1970 THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, Colin Blakely, 1970 THIS SPORTING LIFE, Richard Harris, Colin Blakely, 1963
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Drums Along Balmoral Drive George Beesley (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet 62% King Lear Kent (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Red Monarch Stalin (Character) - 1983
92% 73% Evil Under the Sun Sir Horace Blatt (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet 20% Break In Gardner (Character) - 1981
70% 53% The Dogs of War North (Character) - 1980
50% 29% Nijinsky Vassili (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Day Christ Died Caiaphas (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 80% Little Lord Fauntleroy Hobbs (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 74% Meetings With Remarkable Men Tamil (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet All Things Bright and Beautiful Siegfried Farnon (Character) - 1979
57% 28% The Big Sleep Harry Jones (Character) - 1978
70% 78% Equus Frank Strang (Character) - 1977
72% 84% The Pink Panther Strikes Again Drummond (Character) - 1976
90% 78% Murder on the Orient Express Mr. Hardman (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet 88% Love Among the Ruins J.F. Devine (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet National Health Edward Loach (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 47% Galileo Priuli (Character) - 1973
50% 52% Young Winston Butcher (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shattered Blagdon (Character) - 1972
89% 73% The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Dr.John H. Watson (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet 64% Alfred the Great Asher (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Decline and Fall... of a Bird Watcher Solomon Philbrick (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 11% The Vengeance of She George (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 67% Charlie Bubbles Smokey Pickles (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 41% The Day the Fish Came Out The Pilot (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Spy With a Cold Nose Russian Premier (Character) - 1966
54% 38% The Long Ships Rhykka (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Informers Charlie Ruskin (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 61% The Password Is Courage 1st German Goon (Character) - 1962

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tales of the Unexpected Colin Mearns (Character) 1981 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet BBC Television Shakespeare Antony (Character) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Man in a Suitcase Unknown (Guest Star) 1967-1968