Colin Welland (born 4 July 1934 in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Lancashire) is an English actor and screenwriter, writer. 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Location within the British Isles. ... St Helens is a town in the metropolitan county of Merseyside in North-West England, and within the historic borders of Lancashire. ... Lancashire is a county in North West England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ...

He appeared as PC David Graham in the BBC television series Z Cars, and in films, including Kes (1969), before concentrating on writing. In Kes he played an English school-teacher, a job which (like fellow Kes actor Brian Glover and its writer Barry Hines) he had had in real life. Colin Welland taught 'art' at Manchester Road Secondary Modern school in Leigh, Lancashire. He was known there as 'Ted' because of his curly hair that wore combed forward like the teddy-boys of the late 1950s. The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... Z-Cars (sometimes written as Z Cars, and always pronounced zed, never zee) was a British television drama series centred around the work of regular beat police officers in the fictional town of Newtown, near Liverpool, in the north-west of England. ... Kes is: a film directed by Ken Loach (see Kes (film)), based on the novel A Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Kes is: a film directed by Ken Loach (see Kes (film)), based on the novel A Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines. ... Brian Glover (April 2, 1934 - July 24, 1997) was a British actor. ... Barry Hines is a British author who has written several popular novels and television scripts. ...

He made a famous speech including the quotation from Paul Revere, "the British are coming", at the 1982 Academy Awards, where he was accepting the award for Best Original Screenplay for Chariots of Fire. In the film the sign outside the Church of Scotland in Paris shows the preacher to be "CM Welland". Portrait of Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley, c. ... The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ... Chariots of Fire is a British film released in 1981. ... The Church of Scotland (CofS, known informally as The Kirk, Eaglais na h-Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is the national church of Scotland. ...

His other writing credits include the 1979 film Yanks, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Richard Gere, and directed by John Schlesinger.. This page refers to the year 1979. ... Yanks is a 1979 John Schlesinger film, set in World War II in the village of Dobcross, Oldham, England. ... Vanessa Redgrave during the 2004 season of Nip/Tuck. ... Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. ... John Richard Schlesinger (February 16, 1926–July 25, 2003) was a British film director. ...