
James Bolam
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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
Credits

The End of the Affair (1999)
as Mr. Savage

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
as Mike

The Plague Dogs (1982)
as The Tod (voice)

Murder Most Foul (1964)
as Bill Hanson

The Last Days of Lehman Brothers (2009)
as Ken Lewis

The Island on Bird Street (1997)
as Doctor Studjinsky

To Kill a King (2003)
as Denzil Holles

O Lucky Man! (1973)
as Attenborough/Examination Doctor

H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
as Midshipman (uncredited)

Stella Does Tricks (1997)
as Mr. Peters

Tentboy (2011)
as Baz

Straight On Till Morning (1972)
as Joey

Omnibus - Graham Greene: The Hunted Man (1968)
as Pinkie

As You Like It (1978)
as Touchstone

It Was an Accident (2000)
as Vernon Fitch

In Celebration (1975)
as Colin Shaw

Half a Sixpence (1967)
as Mr Jones
For King and Country: Out There (1963)
as Herbert Hudd

The Likely Lads (1976)
as Terry

Communicators From Hell (1989)
Actor

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (2000)
as Various Characters
The Limbo Connection (1978)
as Mark Omney

Celebration (2007)
as Matt

Otley (1969)
as Albert

Crucible of Terror (1972)
as John Davies

Wartime Christmas (2020)
as Narrator

A Kind of Loving (1962)
as Jeff

The Maze (1983)
as Arthur Frode

Clash of Loyalties (1983)
as A.T. Wilson

Dirty Tricks (2000)
as Moss

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves (2016)
as Terry Collier (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Missing Postman (1997)
as Clive Peacock

A Memory Owed (2025)
as Stan

Macbeth (1983)
as Porter

Unconditional (2012)
as Hutch

Eleven Men Against Eleven (1995)
as Ted Whitehead

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death (2002)
as Harold Shipman

The Alex Ferguson Story (1998)
as Narrator

A Choice of Coward: Present Laughter (1964)
as Roland Maule

The Stalker's Apprentice (1998)
as Helmut Kranze

The Kitchen (1961)
as Michael
If You Could See What I Can See (1974)
as Charlie
The Philanthropist (1975)
as Don

Clockwork Mice (1995)
as Wackey

The Plot Against Harold Wilson (2006)
as Harold Wilson

Sticky Wickets (1990)
as Glyn

Making the Play (1973)
as Husband

Stormin' Norman (2000)
as Norman





