Bolam, James (1938- )

English actor. He starred as the endearing and witty rogue Terry Collier in the working-class television sitcom The Likely Lads (1964-66) with Rodney Bewes. He also starred in its sequel, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973-74), and in a cinema version in 1976, before playing in the gritty Northern drama When the Boat Comes In (1976-81).

Other television work includes the hospital-based sitcom Only When I Laugh (1979-81) and the jazz-music based Beiderbecke trilogy (1985-88). He appeared in the films A Kind of Loving (1962), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), and O Lucky Man! (1973). His West End stage plays include Arms and the Man, Run for Your Wife, and Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell.