James Christopher BolamMBE (born 16 June 1935) is an English actor.[1][2] He is best known for his roles as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh, Trevor Chaplin in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, Arthur Gilder in Born and Bred, Jack Halford in New Tricks and the title character of Grandpa in the CBeebies programme Grandpa in My Pocket.
^England & Wales Birth Register Index; Bolam, James C.; September quarter 1935; Registration District: Sunderland; Registration County: Tyne & Wear; Volume 10a; Page 913
^"Derbyshire news, views & business listings from Derbyshire's Community | This is Derbyshire". Bygonederbyshire.co.uk. 21 September 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.[permanent dead link]
James Christopher Bolam MBE (born 16 June 1935) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its sequel...
followed the friendship of two young working class men, Terry Collier (JamesBolam) and Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes), in the mid-1960s. Bob and Terry are assumed...
over all twelve series; the cast variously included Alun Armstrong, JamesBolam, Amanda Redman, Denis Lawson, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Tamzin Outhwaite, and...
the CBeebies show Grandpa in My Pocket. She is married to fellow actor JamesBolam, with whom she has appeared in numerous episodes of various television...
that his Likely Lads co-star JamesBolam had not spoken to him for the past 30 years. It had been assumed for years that Bolam and Bewes were friends off-screen...
tenth series. John 'Jack' Halford (Ex-Detective Chief Superintendent) (JamesBolam) (2003–2012, 2013): The highest-ranking retired officer on the team,...
1984 and 1988. Each serial centres on schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin (JamesBolam) and Jill Swinburne (Barbara Flynn), who work at a rundown comprehensive...
investment bank Lehman Brothers. It featured James Cromwell, Ben Daniels, Corey Johnson, Michael Landes and JamesBolam. The Last Days of Lehman Brothers summarizes...
events are set in the time period from 1919 to 1937. The series stars JamesBolam as Jack Ford, a First World War veteran who returns to his poverty-stricken...
Theatre once more in The Acid Test by Anya Reiss in 2011. Lawson replaced JamesBolam in the BBC One series New Tricks in its ninth series in 2012. Lawson...
Grandpa which had appeared in The Dandy in the 1940s), the programme stars JamesBolam as a grandfather who owns a magical "shrinking cap", which only his 10-year-old...
original cast of New Tricks consisted of Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman, JamesBolam, and Alun Armstrong, and were dubbed a "dream team" by the Controller...
Alan Bates, Judi Dench, James Fox, Keith Allen, Bob Peck, Alun Armstrong, Marina Sirtis, David Jason, Brenda Blethyn, JamesBolam, Adrian Edmondson, Alison...
– are eventually shown to be interconnected. Geordie Trevor Chaplin (JamesBolam) teaches woodwork, enjoys football and is passionate about jazz. Jill...
JamesBolam and Michael French as a father and son who run a cottage hospital in Ormston, a fictitious village in Lancashire, in the 1950s. Bolam's and...
True, an ITV legal drama shown in 2000, which starred Robson Green, JamesBolam, Kerry Ann Christiansen and Susan Jameson. Bell served as Honorary Jury...
in 1987. It is the second serial in The Beiderbecke Trilogy and stars JamesBolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne...
became The Beiderbecke Affair with the parts going to Barbara Flynn and JamesBolam. She played Phyllis in Alan Ayckbourn's TV film Season's Greetings (play)...
series (1988–1992) before being turned into a television series starring JamesBolam, Belinda Lang, Lynda Bellingham and Julia Sawalha and broadcast for five...
directed by Vadim Jean and starring Ian Hart, Catherine Russell and JamesBolam. The film score was composed by David Hughes and John Murphy. A teacher...
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