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?

KNOWN FOR

Midsomer Murders
1999
Play for Today
1973
New Tricks
2004
Omnibus
1968
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1967
No Hiding Place
1964
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2014
Dalziel and Pascoe
2002
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
Thursday Theatre
1965
Public Eye
1971
Screen One
1990

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
98
2025
A Memory Owed
as Stan
2024
Remembers…
as Self
2022
Marriage
as Gerry
2020
Wartime Christmas
as Narrator
2016
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
as Terry Collier (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2012
Unconditional
as Hutch
2011
Tentboy
as Baz
2009
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
as Ken Lewis
2009
Grandpa in My Pocket
2007
Celebration
as Matt
2006
The Plot Against Harold Wilson
as Harold Wilson
2006
The Afternoon Play
as Billy
2004
New Tricks
as Jack Halford
2004
He Knew He Was Right
as Mr Crump
2003
To Kill a King
as Denzil Holles
2002
Harold Shipman: Doctor Death
as Harold Shipman
2002
Born and Bred
as Dr. Arthur Gilder
2002
Dalziel and Pascoe
as Father Leonard Tibbings
2000
Dirty Tricks
as Moss
2000
Stormin' Norman
as Norman
2000
It Was an Accident
as Vernon Fitch
2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Various Characters
2000
Pay and Display
as Sydney Street
2000
Close and True
as Graham True
1999
The End of the Affair
as Mr. Savage
1999
Midsomer Murders
as Ron Pringle
1998
The Stalker's Apprentice
as Helmut Kranze
1998
The Alex Ferguson Story
as Narrator
1997
The Island on Bird Street
as Doctor Studjinsky
1997
The Missing Postman
as Clive Peacock
1997
Stella Does Tricks
as Mr. Peters
1997
The Missing Postman
as Clive Peacock
1995
Clockwork Mice
as Wackey
1995
Eleven Men Against Eleven
as Ted Whitehead
1991
Second Thoughts
as Bill
1990
Sticky Wickets
as Glyn
1990
Screen One
as Glyn
1989
Communicators From Hell
1988
The Beiderbecke Connection
as Trevor Chaplin
1988
Andy Capp
as Andy Capp
1987
The Beiderbecke Tapes
as Trevor Chaplin
1986
Room at the Bottom
1985
The Beiderbecke Affair
as Trevor Chaplin
1983
The Maze
as Arthur Frode
1983
Clash of Loyalties
as A.T. Wilson
1983
Macbeth
as Porter
1983
Shades of Darkness
as Arthur Frode
1982
The Plague Dogs
as The Tod (voice)
1979
Fish and Ships
as Narrator
1979
Only When I Laugh
as Roy Figgis
1978
As You Like It
as Touchstone
1978
The Limbo Connection
as Mark Omney
1978
Armchair Thriller
as Mark Omney
1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Touchstone
1976
The Likely Lads
as Terry
1976
When the Boat Comes In
as Jack Ford
1975
In Celebration
as Colin Shaw
1975
The Philanthropist
as Don
1974
If You Could See What I Can See
as Charlie
1974
Armchair Theatre
as Charlie
1973
O Lucky Man!
as Attenborough/Examination Doctor
1973
Making the Play
as Husband
1973
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
as Terry Collier
1973
Play for Today
as Husband
1973
Oranges and Lemons
as Arthur
1972
Straight On Till Morning
as Joey
1972
Crucible of Terror
as John Davies
1972
Budgie
as Wossname
1972
The Protectors
as Max Toller
1972
Budgie
as Wossname Walsh
1971
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Roberts
1971
Public Eye
as Alan Grove
1970
W. Somerset Maugham
as Leslie Gaze
1969
Otley
as Albert
1969
Boy Meets Girl
as McHenry
1968
Omnibus - Graham Greene: The Hunted Man
as Pinkie
1968
Omnibus
as Pinkie
1967
Half a Sixpence
as Mr Jones
1967
Inheritance
as David Oldroyd
1967
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Muggles
1965
Thursday Theatre
as Magpie
1964
Murder Most Foul
as Bill Hanson
1964
A Choice of Coward: Present Laughter
as Roland Maule
1964
The Likely Lads
as Terry Collier
1964
No Hiding Place
1964
It's Dark Outside
as Wilfred
1964
A Choice of Coward
as Roland Maule
1964
The Four Seasons of Rosie Carr
as Frank Lambert
1964
The Four Seasons of Rosie Carr
as Frank Lambert (voice)
1963
For King and Country: Out There
as Herbert Hudd
1962
A Kind of Loving
as Jeff
1962
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
as Mike
1962
H.M.S. Defiant
as Midshipman (uncredited)
1962
Drama 61-67
as Nick
1961
The Kitchen
as Michael
1961
Drama 61-67
1960
ITV Christmas Comedy