James Bolam

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Born in 1935, James Christopher Bolam, (born 16 June 1935) is an English actor best known for his appearances in As the Boat Comes In, Terry Collier in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, Trevor Chaplin in Only When I Laugh, Arthur Gilder in According to the Eyes, Bernard Gilder in New Tricks, Stephen Gilder in How the Boat Comes In, Trevor Chaplin in CBeebies' Grandpa in My Pocket, Trevor Chaplin in When the I's in When the Likely Lads In the Lads in CBee, Marion Brown Brown Brown in When the Likely Lad in Whatever Happened in When the Likely Lad in The Likely Lads in The Likely Lads Inquid, Arthur Gilderbecke In The Likely Lad in What Happens in The Lad in Lad in My Figgis In The Laugh, Joseph Lad in During the Boat Comes, Patrick Lad's, Roy Lad, Kevin Lad, Matthew Lad, Trevor Chaplin in CBee, Raymond Lad, Arthur Gilderbeck Lad, Raymond Lad, Trevor Lad, Helen Lad's Lad, Roy Lad's In The Boat Comes, The Boat Comes, Matthew Lad, Peter Lads in The Lads Lads, Larry Collier in When the Lads in During the Lads In The Lads, Roy Lads Invalid In The...

Early life

Bolam was born in Sunderland, County Durham, England, on June 16th, 1935. Robert Alfred Bolam, a father from Northumberland, and Marion Alice Drury, a mother from County Durham, were born in County Durham. Bolam attended Bemrose School in Derby after attending Bede Grammar School in Sunderland. Bolam went from articled clerk to chartered accountant, before moving to London, where he earned the gold medal and Margaret Rawlings Cup. He worked in Lyons Corner House Tearoom and West End restaurants, washing dishes at night and studying during the day, but was unaware of funds for his fees.

Bolam's first professional appearance came as an understudy to Ronnie Barker in Chekhov's "Platonov." In the latter film as the best friend of the title character played by Tom Courtenay, he first appeared on television shows in the early 1960s, beginning with Z-Cars and the Northern social realist films A Kind of Loving and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

Bolam was The Likely Lads, with Terry Collier and Rodney Bewes as Bob Ferris, which made Bolam a hit in 1964 to 1966, and he adapted the scripts for a BBC Radio version soon after. In 1967, he appeared with John Thaw in the Granada serial Inheritance.

Bolam appeared in films including Half a Sixpence (1967), Otley (1969), and O Lucky Man! (1973): (1973) The revived series, which chronicled Bob and Terry's further adventures, lasted on two series broadcast in 1973 and 1974, as well as a 45-minute 1974 Christmas Eve special.

Bolam appeared alongside the original cast in a new BBC Radio series based on the 1973 television series, and in 1976 there was a further reunion in a nostalgic film spin-off from the series called Simply Lads. In 2005, Bolam co-star Rodney Bewes said that the two actors had not spoken since the film had been made, a time of more than three decades. Bolam was so startled that he crashed into a lamp post while pregnant, according to Bewes. Bolam denied that there was a gap between the two guys when Bewes died in November 2017.

Bolam is well-guarded about his personal life. "I'm having a guy fix the track rods on my car," he said once. I don't want to know anything about him. Why does he want to know anything about me?

Bolam returned to straight drama in 1976 as Jack Ford in BBC Television's When the Boat Comes In, which ran until 1981. Since then, he has appeared in comedies and comedies, including Only When You Laugh (as Roy Figgis), From 29 October 1979 to October 1994, The Beiderbecke Affair (as Trevor Chaplin), Dalziel and Pascoe, Close and True, Born and Bred (as Jack Halford). In the 2002 series of the BBC comedy-drama Bedtime Bedtime, Timothy West and Sheila Hancock played the ostensibly good but actually crooked Ronnie Stribling.

Willie Garvin played Willie Garvin in a BBC World Service radio version of the Modesty Blaise book Last Day in Limbo, 1978. In the animated film version of The Tod (1982), he performed The Tod. He co-starred in the original radio version of the romantic sitcom Second Thoughts, which lasted for many series and was later adapted for television with Bolam reprising his role. He appeared in the Doctor Who audio play The Spectre of Lanyon Moor in 2000. He was also the narrator of Three Lions, a three-part football documentary that aired on BBC One before Euro 2000. The three episodes were centered around England's National Team's history from the 1966 World Cup to the Euro 2000 finals.

Bolam played serial killer Harold Shipman in Shipman, Brian Masters' ITV adaptation of Brian Masters' book on the case. Prescription for Murder b and Father Leonard Tibbings in Dalziel and Pascoe (Ser). Ep. 7, Ep. ('Sins of the Fathers') a slew of men (tomorrow'). In the BBC documentary Plot Against Harold Wilson, he portrayed Harold Wilson, the former Prime Minister, in 2006. He appeared in Frank Loesser's book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Chichester Festival Theatre during the 2005 summer season. In the Cbeebies show Grandpa in My Pocket, he portrayed Grandpa. In the television drama "The Last Days of Lehman Brothers" in 2009, Ken Lewis, CEO of the Bank of America, starred Ken Lewis, Jr.

Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse and Ben Elton's play, Gasping, are two of his appearances on stage in London. He appeared in a new production of 'Macbeth' at The Young Vic in 1974, in which Bolam and two other actors shared the lead role. Bolam had renounced Jack Halford in New Tricks on September 20, only days after two more series were released.

Bolam continues to perform in theater as well as on television. He appeared in William Ivory's play Bomber's Moon at the Park Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, during spring 2015.

Personal life

Bolam lives in Wisborough Green, West Sussex, and Chiswick, London, with his partner, Susan Jameson (who co-starred with him in an early episode of The Likely Lads). New Tricks, Close and True, and Grandpa in My Pocket (British) They have a daughter. Bolam plays golf and is a member of the Stage Golfers Society.

Bolam was Roy Plomley's guest on Desert Island Discs, where he selected the "Violin Concerto in D" by Ludwig van Beethoven in his book "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. Tolkien, as his luxury, "selected cases of French wine" in March 1977. He expressed an aspiration to appear in a Western, as well as his obsession with horses and being a race-horse owner.

Bolam appeared in a 2014 video protesting oil exploration near Wisborough Green.

Bolam is a tenor in the Wisborough Green barber shop choir. The choir is a small local group that appears at fetes and small venues (The Right Notes, Nov. 1995).

Bolam was named Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours "for services to Drama."

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