Cast & creator
James Bolam
Best known for Midsomer Murders, Play for Today, New Tricks
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?
Also known as: Джеймс Болэм, James Christopher Bolam
49
film credits
49
television credits
98
1956–2025 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (98)
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Midsomer Murders
Ron Pringle
1997
Play for Today
Husband
1970
New Tricks
Jack Halford
2004
Omnibus
Pinkie
1967
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Muggles
1965
No Hiding Place
1959
Dalziel and Pascoe
Father Leonard Tibbings
1996
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant
2011Thursday Theatre
Magpie
1964
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Touchstone
1978
Public Eye
Alan Grove
1965
Screen One
Glyn
1989Drama 61-67
1961Drama 61-67
Nick
1961
The Protectors
Max Toller
1972
Budgie
Wossname
1971Budgie
Wossname Walsh
1971
Remembers…
Self
2022
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Roberts
1971
Born and Bred
Dr. Arthur Gilder
2002
The Afternoon Play
Billy
2003
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Terry Collier
1973
Boy Meets Girl
McHenry
1967W. Somerset Maugham
Leslie Gaze
1969
When the Boat Comes In
Jack Ford
1976
Only When I Laugh
Roy Figgis
1979
The Likely Lads
Terry Collier
1964
Second Thoughts
Bill
1991
Marriage
Gerry
2022
He Knew He Was Right
Mr Crump
2004
It's Dark Outside
Wilfred
1964
Armchair Theatre
Charlie
1956
The End of the Affair
Mr. Savage
1999
A Choice of Coward
Roland Maule
1964The Four Seasons of Rosie Carr
Frank Lambert
1964The Four Seasons of Rosie Carr
Frank Lambert (voice)
1964
Shades of Darkness
Arthur Frode
1983
Armchair Thriller
Mark Omney
1978
The Beiderbecke Tapes
Trevor Chaplin
1987
Grandpa in My Pocket
2009
The Plague Dogs
The Tod (voice)
1982
The Beiderbecke Affair
Trevor Chaplin
1985
To Kill a King
Denzil Holles
2003
Murder Most Foul
Bill Hanson
1964
O Lucky Man!
Attenborough/Examination Doctor
1973
ITV Christmas Comedy
1983
The Beiderbecke Connection
Trevor Chaplin
1988
H.M.S. Defiant
Midshipman (uncredited)
1962
A Kind of Loving
Jeff
1962
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Mike
1962
The Missing Postman
Clive Peacock
1997
The Island on Bird Street
Doctor Studjinsky
1997
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
Ken Lewis
2009Inheritance
David Oldroyd
1967
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Terry Collier (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
Straight On Till Morning
Joey
1972Room at the Bottom
1986
Andy Capp
Andy Capp
1988
Close and True
Graham True
2000
Pay and Display
Sydney Street
2000
Omnibus - Graham Greene: The Hunted Man
Pinkie
1968Oranges and Lemons
Arthur
1973
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Various Characters
2000
It Was an Accident
Vernon Fitch
2000For King and Country: Out There
Herbert Hudd
1963
The Stalker's Apprentice
Helmut Kranze
1998
The Missing Postman
Clive Peacock
1997
Harold Shipman: Doctor Death
Harold Shipman
2002
Half a Sixpence
Mr Jones
1967
Eleven Men Against Eleven
Ted Whitehead
1995The Limbo Connection
Mark Omney
1978
Tentboy
Baz
2011
Stella Does Tricks
Mr. Peters
1997
As You Like It
Touchstone
1978
The Maze
Arthur Frode
1983
Clockwork Mice
Wackey
1995
The Likely Lads
Terry
1976
Macbeth
Porter
1983
Otley
Albert
1969
In Celebration
Colin Shaw
1975If You Could See What I Can See
Charlie
1974
The Plot Against Harold Wilson
Harold Wilson
2006
Dirty Tricks
Moss
2000
A Choice of Coward: Present Laughter
Roland Maule
1964
The Alex Ferguson Story
Narrator
1998
Clash of Loyalties
A.T. Wilson
1983
Crucible of Terror
John Davies
1972
Unconditional
Hutch
2012
Communicators From Hell
1989The Philanthropist
Don
1975
Celebration
Matt
2007
A Memory Owed
Stan
2025
Sticky Wickets
Glyn
1990
The Kitchen
Michael
1961
Wartime Christmas
Narrator
2020
Making the Play
Husband
1973
Stormin' Norman
Norman
2000
Fish and Ships
Narrator
1979