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Acting

James Bolam

Career: Active from 1962 to 2025, busiest in 2000 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 39
top three billing

Average score: 67/100

Highest rated: New Tricks
83/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 43 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

James Bolam Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
3.0, average 4.8
Violence
2.7, average 4.1
Scare
1.4, average 2.6
Uncanny
1.4, average 2.5

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 6
Social Commentary 5
Witty Dialogue 5
Character-Driven Comedy 4
Historical Drama 4
Political Intrigue 4
British Sitcom 4
Comfort Viewing 3
Social Realism 3
Character-Driven Humor 3
Everyday Life 2
Friendship Dynamics 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

95

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

3 titles · average score 75

A Memory Owed

as Stan

Marriage

75

TV show · as Gerry

Wartime Christmas

as Narrator

2010s

3 titles · average score 63

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

as Terry Collier (archive footage) (uncredited)

Unconditional

63

as Hutch

Tentboy

as Baz

2000s

17 titles · average score 64

Grandpa in My Pocket

66

TV show

The Last Days of Lehman Brothers

58

as Ken Lewis

Celebration

66

as Matt

The Plot Against Harold Wilson

as Harold Wilson

New Tricks

83

TV show · as Jack Halford

To Kill a King

58

as Denzil Holles

Born and Bred

55

TV show · as Dr. Arthur Gilder

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death

69

as Harold Shipman

Dirty Tricks

61

as Moss

Pay and Display

TV show · as Sydney Street

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

73

as Various Characters

It Was an Accident

41

as Vernon Fitch

1990s

15 titles · average score 67

The End of the Affair

67

as Mr. Savage

The Stalker's Apprentice

as Helmut Kranze

The Missing Postman

75

TV show · as Clive Peacock

Stella Does Tricks

63

as Mr. Peters

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Ron Pringle

The Missing Postman

63

as Clive Peacock

The Island on Bird Street

73

as Doctor Studjinsky

Dalziel and Pascoe

69

TV show · as Father Leonard Tibbings

Eleven Men Against Eleven

as Ted Whitehead

Seaview Knights

as Merlin

Second Thoughts

TV show · as Bill

Sticky Wickets

as Glyn

1980s

12 titles · average score 75

Screen One

TV show · as Glyn

The Beiderbecke Connection

81

TV show · as Trevor Chaplin

Andy Capp

TV show · as Andy Capp

The Beiderbecke Tapes

76

TV show · as Trevor Chaplin

Room at the Bottom

TV show

The Beiderbecke Affair

82

TV show · as Trevor Chaplin

Clash of Loyalties

71

as A.T. Wilson

Macbeth

66

as Porter

Shades of Darkness

TV show · as Arthur Frode

The Maze

as Arthur Frode

ITV Christmas Comedy

TV show

The Plague Dogs

75

as The Tod (voice)

1970s

21 titles · average score 67

Only When I Laugh

67

TV show · as Roy Figgis

The Limbo Connection

as Mark Omney

As You Like It

76

as Touchstone

When the Boat Comes In

80

TV show · as Jack Ford

The Likely Lads

69

as Terry

The Philanthropist

as Don

In Celebration

65

as Colin Shaw

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

77

TV show · as Terry Collier

Crucible of Terror

38

as John Davies

The Protectors

64

TV show · as Max Toller

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

73

TV show · as Roberts

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Husband

1960s

22 titles · average score 69

Otley

51

as Albert

Omnibus - Graham Greene: The Hunted Man

as Pinkie

Inheritance

TV show · as David Oldroyd

Omnibus

72

TV show · as Pinkie

Public Eye

83

TV show · as Alan Grove

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as Muggles

The Likely Lads

72

TV show · as Terry Collier

Murder Most Foul

71

as Bill Hanson

A Choice of Coward: Present Laughter

as Roland Maule

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

75

as Mike

A Kind of Loving

72

as Jeff

Drama 61-67

TV show · as Nick

1950s

2 titles · average score 68

No Hiding Place

TV show

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Charlie