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James Bolam - filmography
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New Tricks - Series 3
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Dennis Waterman, Amanda Redman, Alun Armstrong
Director: Rob Evans
Certificate: 
All the episodes from the third series of the popular crime fighting comedy. The stellar cast of Bolam, Waterman and Armstrong play retired detectives recalled by Redman to form an unlikely team to investigate unsolved crimes.
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79%
from 757 members
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Born And Bred - Series 2
(4 discs)
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: James Bolam, Michael French
Director: David Innes Edwards, Rob Evans, Ian Knox
Certificate: 
The entire second series of the rural, medical drama. Set in 1950's Britain, BORN AND BRED follows the lives of a father and son doctor team in a time of post war optimism. James Bolam stars as GP Arthur Gilder, the father who's lived in the same village of Ormston all of his life. He's managed to ..read more »
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67%
from 363 members
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To Kill A King
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Dougray Scott, Tim Roth, Rupert Everett
Director: Mike Barker
Certificate: 
Set at the end of the Civil War in 1645, TO KILL A KING is a stirring period piece that follows the relationship between Lord General Fairfax (Dougray Scott) and his ambitious deputy Oliver Cromwell (Tim Roth) as they struggle to rebuild a shattered England. Part of Cromwell's solution is to ..read more »
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57%
from 2,362 members
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Born And Bred - Series 1
(2 discs)
(2002)
Starring: James Bolam, Michael French, Richard Wilson
Director: Simon Massey, Dermot Boyd
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Set in 1950's Britain, BORN AND BRED follows the lives of a father and son doctor team in a time of post war optimism. James Bolam stars as the father who's lived in the same village of Ormston all of his life who finally manages to persuade his son (Michael French) to follow in his footsteps. ..read more »
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69%
from 382 members
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Dirty Tricks
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Martin Clunes, James Bolam, Lindsay Duncan
Director: Paul Seed
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Three features. In 'Adrift', Katie and Guy Nash set off on a second honeymoon aboard a luxury yacht in an effort to overcome their relationship problems. However, their plans take a drastic turn when they encounter a derelict vessel. They board the drifting boat to search for survivors...Also ..read more »
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55%
from 213 members
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The End Of The Affair
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea
Director: Neil Jordan
Certificate: 
On a rainy night in London in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with the husband of an ex-lover. The obsession is rekindled and soon we discover why the affair ended two years earlier and the pact Sarah had made with God...
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61%
from 4,838 members
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Macbeth
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Nicol Williamson, Jane Lapotaire, Brenda Bruce
Director: Jack Gold
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An adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic which depicts the crumbling of an obsessed man's sanity and the chronicling of his moral disintegration.
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57%
from 194 members
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The Plague Dogs
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: John Hurt, Christopher Benjamin, James Bolam
Director: Martin Rosen
Certificate:
THE PLAGUE DOGS is a fine animated feature from the same group of artists who created WATERSHIP DOWN. The story centers around two dogs who escape from an animal research center, only to be wrongly suspected of carrying a deadly plague. The film features the voices of John Hurt, Judy Geeson, James ..read more »
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63%
from 412 members
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The Likely Lads
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Brigit Forsyth
Director: Michael Tuchner
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The two lads from the much-loved 1960s television programme are back in their own feature film. The years have made Terry (James Bolam) and Bob (Rodney Bewes) more responsible...or have they?
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70%
from 626 members
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When The Boat Comes In - Series 1
(6 discs)
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: James Bolam
Director: Paul Ciappessoni, David Reynolds, Ronald Wilson
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Taken from the first television series this finds a former Army sergeant returning home to an economically depressed Gallowshields in Tyneside at the end of World War One. But this sergeant always lands on his feet...
Discs 1 & 2 contain episodes: 'A Land Fit For Heroes And Idiots', 'Say Hello.. ..read more »
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74%
from 1,007 member
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In Celebration
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Brian Cox, Alan Bates, Bill Owen
Director: Lindsay Anderson
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Made as part of the 'American Film Theatre' in which plays were filmed and then shown at the cinema. This is the story of an English family and their gathering together for the parents' wedding anniversary. Three grown sons argue while Mum wanders about aimlessly and Dad waits for the next crisis.
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62%
from 134 members
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Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - S...
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Brigit Forsyth
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The second - and final - series found Bob now married to Thelma. Dedicated to married life, the nine-to-five and the new-build-semi - it seems he has finally left Terry behind. After all what has he got in common with a work-shy, mayhem-making loudmouth - except the past?
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80%
from 405 members
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Crucible Of Terror
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: James Bolam, Ronald Lacey, Mike Raven
Director: Ted Hooker
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A horrifying story of occult murders and pagan rituals. A sculptor proudly displays his masterpiece, a bronze of a nude girl. Art dealers are amazed by its incredible realism, but the bronze holds a dark and terrifying secret.
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54%
from 43 members
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A Kind Of Loving
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird
Director: John Schlesinger
Certificate:
Drama based on the novel by Stan Barstow which tells of a young draughtsman who is forced into marriage after making his girlfriend pregnant. Living with her dragon-like mother soon makes him realise that his marriage is just a fragile relationship based purely on sex.
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72%
from 1,062 member
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Likely Lads, The - Series 1 To 3
on DVD
Starring: James Bolam, Rodney Bewes
Certificate:
Features the seven surviving episodes from the original TV comedy series of 'The Likely Lads' following the lives of two Geordie lads, Terry Collier and Bob Ferris. In 'Entente Cordiale' the two boys come back from a holiday in the Costa Brava and find out that a French girl that they met on the ..read more »
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69%
from 854 members
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Second Thoughts - Complete Series 1
Starring: Lynda Bellingham, James Bolam, Mark Denham
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One of the 90s favourite sitcoms returns in this first series of SECOND THOUGHTS, starring James Bolam and Lynda Bellingham as two middle-aged divorcees trying to maintain a crumbling relationship, seemingly against all odds. Bill (James Bolam) has to deal with Faith�s teenage children (one ..read more »
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59%
from 80 members
Not available for rental
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Only When I Laugh - Series 4
Starring: James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli
Director: Vernon Lawrence
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Only When I Laugh was written by Eric Chappell (Rising Damp, Home to Roost) and directed by Vernon Lawrence (Duty Free, The Bounder). The series starred James Bolam (Beiderbecke), Peter Bowles (To the Manor Born) and Christopher Strauli (Raffles) as three congenital hypochondriac layabouts forever ..read more »
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72%
from 4 members
Not available for rental
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Helen Mirren At The BBC
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Helen Mirren, Stanley Baker, Brian Cox
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Set Comprises:
1. The Changling (1974)
2. The Apple Cart (1975)
3. Caesar & Claretta (1975)
4. The Philanthropist (1975)
5. The Little Minister (1975)
6. The Country Wife (1977)
7. Blue Remembered Hill (1979)
8. Mrd Reinhardt (1981)
9. A Midsummer Nights Dream (1981)
10. Cymbeline (1983)
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61%
from 79 members
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Stella Does Tricks
on DVD
Starring: Kelly MacDonald, James Bolam, Hans Matheson
Director: Coky Giedroyc
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A gusty teenage prostitute who can already turn tricks with the best of them but still enjoys a giggle about sex with her girlfriends, a young group run by oily pimp Mr Peters. Despite an oddly close relationship with Peters, she is desperate to escape from him, and when her best friend is attacked ..read more »
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47%
from 277 members
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Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - S...
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Rodney Bewes, James Bolam, Brigit Forsyth
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Following on from the television series 'The Likely Lads (1964)' featuring two Geordie lads. Terry returns from serving in the Army and finds out that Bob is about to marry his girlfriend Thelma. Will Thelma be able to keep Bob on the straight and narrow or will Terry lead Bob back into their old ways?
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77%
from 584 members
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As You Like It
on DVD
Starring: Helen Mirren, Brian Stirner, James Bolam
Director: Basil Coleman
Certificate: 
In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. Banished young ..read more »
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58%
from 187 members
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Only When I Laugh - Series 2
Starring: Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli, James Bolam
Director: Vernon Lawrence
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The second series of the popular comedy series. ONLY WHEN I LAUGH follows the exploits of three hypochondriacal hospital patients who drive the doctors and nurses nutty with their silly antics. Driven batty with boredom, Archie, Roy, and Norman dish up outrageous rumours and wild speculation, ..read more »
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58%
from 8 members
Not available for rental
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James Bolam facts
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They don't make them like this anymore!! 17 February 2005
...What a great film! Brilliant cast, Thora Hird, Alan Bates, James Bolam, and of course the late Leonard Rossiter. I first watched this film well over 20 years ago, and thou...
Forgotten how funny this was 3 October 2005
