James Christopher Bolam is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

Filmography

• 2025A Memory Owed — Stan
• Marriage — Gerry
• 2020Wartime Christmas — Narrator
• 2016British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves — Terry Collier (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2012Unconditional — Hutch
• 2011Tentboy — Baz
• Grandpa in My Pocket
• 2009The Last Days of Lehman Brothers — Ken Lewis
• 2007Celebration — Matt
• 2006The Plot Against Harold Wilson — Harold Wilson
• He Knew He Was Right — Mr Crump
• New Tricks — Jack Halford
• The Afternoon Play — Billy
• 2003To Kill a King — Denzil Holles
• Born and Bred — Dr. Arthur Gilder
• 2002Harold Shipman: Doctor Death — Harold Shipman
• Close and True — Graham True
• 2000Dirty Tricks — Moss
• 2000It Was an Accident — Vernon Fitch
• Pay and Display — Sydney Street
• 2000Stormin' Norman — Norman
• 2000Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings — Various Characters
• 1999The End of the Affair — Mr. Savage
• 1998The Alex Ferguson Story — Narrator
• 1998The Stalker's Apprentice — Helmut Kranze
• Midsomer Murders — Ron Pringle
• 1997Stella Does Tricks — Mr. Peters
• 1997The Island on Bird Street — Doctor Studjinsky
• 1997The Missing Postman — Clive Peacock
• The Missing Postman — Clive Peacock
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Father Leonard Tibbings
• 1995Clockwork Mice — Wackey
• 1995Eleven Men Against Eleven — Ted Whitehead
• Second Thoughts — Bill
• 1990Sticky Wickets — Glyn
• 1989Communicators From Hell
• Screen One — Glyn
• Andy Capp — Andy Capp
• The Beiderbecke Connection — Trevor Chaplin
• The Beiderbecke Tapes — Trevor Chaplin
• Room at the Bottom
• The Beiderbecke Affair — Trevor Chaplin
• 1983Clash of Loyalties — A.T. Wilson
• ITV Christmas Comedy
• 1983Macbeth — Porter
• Shades of Darkness — Arthur Frode
• 1983The Maze — Arthur Frode
• 1982The Plague Dogs — The Tod (voice)
• 1979Fish and Ships — Narrator
• Only When I Laugh — Roy Figgis
• Armchair Thriller — Mark Omney
• 1978As You Like It — Touchstone
• The BBC Television Shakespeare — Touchstone
• 1978The Limbo Connection — Mark Omney
• 1976The Likely Lads — Terry
• When the Boat Comes In — Jack Ford
• 1975In Celebration — Colin Shaw
• 1975The Philanthropist — Don
• 1974If You Could See What I Can See — Charlie
• 1973Making the Play — Husband
• 1973O Lucky Man! — Attenborough/Examination Doctor
• Oranges and Lemons — Arthur
• Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? — Terry Collier
• 1972Crucible of Terror — John Davies
• 1972Straight On Till Morning — Joey
• The Protectors — Max Toller
• Budgie — Wossname, Wossname Walsh
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes — Roberts
• Play for Today — Husband
• 1969Otley — Albert
• W. Somerset Maugham — Leslie Gaze
• 1968Omnibus - Graham Greene: The Hunted Man — Pinkie
• Boy Meets Girl — McHenry
• 1967Half a Sixpence — Mr Jones
• Inheritance — David Oldroyd
• Omnibus — Pinkie
• Public Eye — Alan Grove
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Muggles
• A Choice of Coward — Roland Maule
• 1964A Choice of Coward: Present Laughter — Roland Maule
• It's Dark Outside — Wilfred
• 1964Murder Most Foul — Bill Hanson
• The Four Seasons of Rosie Carr — Frank Lambert, Frank Lambert (voice)
• The Likely Lads — Terry Collier
• Thursday Theatre — Magpie
• 1963For King and Country: Out There — Herbert Hudd
• 1962A Kind of Loving — Jeff
• 1962H.M.S. Defiant — Midshipman (uncredited)
• 1962The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner — Mike
• Drama 61-67 — Nick
• 1961The Kitchen — Michael
• No Hiding Place
• Armchair Theatre — Charlie

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Remembers… — Self
• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — Self - Participant