Co Down Actor Colin Blakely Gone but NOT Forgotten

Описание: Another of my all time favourite Northern Irealnd born film actors. This is my tribute to the late Colin Blakely ( 1930 – 7 May 1987 ).
Blakely was born in Bangor, County Down, the son of Victor and Dorothy Blakely (née Ashmore). His mother was a singer in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and his father owned a sports retail shop in Belfast. He attended Sedbergh School in Yorkshire (now Cumbria), England.
As well as stage he was a regular on British television. He played the leading role in a BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now.

A noted Shakespearean actor, Blakely appeared on television as Antony in Antony and Cleopatra (1981), directed by Jonathan Miller as part of the BBC Television Shakespeare series; and as Kent in the 1983 Granada Television version of King Lear which starred Laurence Olivier. Other television appearances included Loophole (1981), The Beiderbecke Affair (1985), Operation Julie (1985) and Paradise Postponed (1986).

Sadly he died, aged just 56 from leukemia. Who knows the screen heights he would have climbed to had he lived a 'normal', three score years and ten or more. He had a already come so far.

Filmography
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) – Loudmouth
The Hellions (1961) – Matthew Billings
The Password Is Courage (1962) – 1st German Goon
This Sporting Life (1963) – Maurice Braithwaite
The Informers (1963) – Charlie Ruskin
The Long Ships (1964) – Rhykka
Never Put It in Writing (1964) – Oscar
The Counterfeit Constable (1964) – L'aveugle
A Man for All Seasons (1966) – Matthew
The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966) – Russian Premier
Charlie Bubbles (1967) – Smokey Pickles
The Day the Fish Came Out (1967) – The Pilot
The Vengeance of She (1968) – George
Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968) – Solomon Philbrick
Alfred the Great (1969) – Asher
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) – Dr. Watson
Something to Hide (1972) – Blagdon
Young Winston (1972) – Butcher
The National Health (1973) – Edward Loach
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) – Cyrus B. Hardman
Galileo (1975) – Priuli
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1975) – Siegfried Farnon
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) – Alec Drummond
Equus (1977) – Frank Strang
The Big Sleep (1978) – Harry Jones
Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979) – Tamil
The Day Christ Died - Caiphas
Nijinsky (1980) – Vassili
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) – Silas Hobbs
The Dogs of War (1980) – North
Loophole (1981) – Gardner
Nailed (1981) – Elder Protestant
Evil Under the Sun (1982) – Sir Horace Blatt
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) – Alec Drummond (archive footage) (uncredited)
The World of Don Camillo (1984) – Peppone