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词条 Colin Blakely
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

  4. Filmography

  5. References

  6. External links

{{More footnotes|date=March 2013}}{{Infobox person
| name = Colin Blakely
| image = Blakely Stephens.jpg
| caption = Blakely (left) as Dr. Watson in the film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
| birth_name = Colin George Blakely
| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|09|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bangor, Northern Ireland
| death_date = {{death date and age|1987|05|07|1930|09|23|df=y}}
| death_place = London, England
| education = Sedbergh School
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1957–1987
| spouse = {{marriage|Margaret Whiting|1961|1987|end=died}}
| children = 3 sons
}}

Colin George Blakely (23 September 1930 – 7 May 1987) was a Northern Irish actor. He is perhaps known for his roles in the films A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Equus (1977).

Early life

Born in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, Blakely attended Sedbergh School in Yorkshire. At 18 he started work in his family's sports goods shop (the Athletic Stores on the corner of Wellington Place and Queen Street in Belfast), before going on to work as a timber-loader on the railways. In 1957, after a spell of amateur dramatics with the Bangor Drama Club, he turned professional with the Group Theatre, Belfast.

Career

In 1957, at the age of 27, Blakely made his stage debut as Dick McCardle in Master of the House. He also appeared in several Ulster Group Theatre productions, including Gerard McLarnon's Bonefire (1958) and Patricia O'Connor's A Sparrow Falls (1959). From 1957 to 1959 he was at the Royal Court Theatre, appearing in Cock-A-Doodle Dandy, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance and, to critical approval, The Naming of Murderers Rock. In 1961, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon and from 1963 to 1968 was with the National Theatre at the Old Vic. On television, director Charles Crichton unusually cast Blakely in two different roles during the same run of episodes of the 1967 series Man in a Suitcase.

In 1969, Blakely's controversial role as Jesus Christ in Dennis Potter's Son of Man gained him wide recognition. From that time onwards, he was a regular on British television, and in the same year played the leading role in a BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now.

Among the many stage plays in which he appeared were The Recruiting Officer, Saint Joan, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Filumena Marturano, Volpone and Oedipus. He returned to the Royal Shakespeare in 1972 in Harold Pinter's Old Times and was subsequently in many West End plays.

Film roles included Maurice Braithwaite in This Sporting Life (1963), Vahlin in The Long Ships, Dr. Watson to Robert Stephens's Holmes in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), and Joseph Stalin in Jack Gold's Red Monarch (1983). In the 1975 British film, It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet, derived from the James Herriot books, Blakely played the eccentric Siegfried Farnon. He also appeared in A Man for All Seasons (1966), Young Winston (1972), The National Health (1973), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Equus (1977), The Dogs of War (1980), Nijinsky (1980) and Evil Under the Sun (1982).

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).

Personal life

Blakely was married to British actress Margaret Whiting for 26 years and had three sons, including twins. He died of leukaemia at the peak of his career, aged 56.

Filmography

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  • 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) – 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
  • 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
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References

External links

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