James Christopher Bolam, MBE (born 16 June 1935) is an English actor,
best known for his roles as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its
sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Jack Ford in When the
Boat Comes In, Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh, Trevor Chaplin in The
Beiderbecke Trilogy, Arthur Gilder in Born and Bred, Jack Halford in
New Tricks and the title character of Grandpa in the CBeebies
programme Grandpa in My Pocket.Bolam was born in Sunderland, County
Durham, England. His father, Robert Alfred Bolam, was from
Northumberland, and his mother, Marion Alice Drury, from County
Durham. After attending Bede Grammar School, Sunderland, Bolam
attended Bemrose School in Derby. Bolam trained as a chartered
accountant, before becoming an actor, and formally trained at the
Central School of Speech and Drama, London.Bolam first appeared on
screens in the early 1960s, initially in television shows such as
Z-Cars and the Northern social realist films A Kind of Loving and The
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (both 1962), and with John Thaw
in the Granada serial, Inheritance in 1967.
best known for his roles as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its
sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Jack Ford in When the
Boat Comes In, Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh, Trevor Chaplin in The
Beiderbecke Trilogy, Arthur Gilder in Born and Bred, Jack Halford in
New Tricks and the title character of Grandpa in the CBeebies
programme Grandpa in My Pocket.Bolam was born in Sunderland, County
Durham, England. His father, Robert Alfred Bolam, was from
Northumberland, and his mother, Marion Alice Drury, from County
Durham. After attending Bede Grammar School, Sunderland, Bolam
attended Bemrose School in Derby. Bolam trained as a chartered
accountant, before becoming an actor, and formally trained at the
Central School of Speech and Drama, London.Bolam first appeared on
screens in the early 1960s, initially in television shows such as
Z-Cars and the Northern social realist films A Kind of Loving and The
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (both 1962), and with John Thaw
in the Granada serial, Inheritance in 1967.
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