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Colin Welland
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Colin Welland (born 4 July 1934 in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Lancashire) is an English actor and screenwriter.
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, having taught art at Manchester Road Secondary Modern school in Leigh, Lancashire.
At the 1982 Academy Awards, where he won the award for Best Original Screenplay for Chariots of Fire, his acceptance speech famously included the phrase: "The British are coming!" (a quotation from Paul Revere).
In the film the sign outside the Church of Scotland in Paris shows the preacher to be "CM Welland".
His other writing credits include the 1979 film Yanks, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Richard Gere, and directed by John Schlesinger...