Colin McFarlane
Biography
Colin McFarlane is a British actor, narrator and voice artist. Born in Upper Clapton, London, and raised in Lincoln, he studied drama at Loughborough University and graduated in 1983. His first professional television part came in 1985, as Detective Sergeant Watson in Dempsey and Makepeace, and he also appeared in the TV film Dutch Girls (1985). He became known for the comedy sketch show The Fast Show and for playing Gillian B. Loeb in Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008), with later film roles in Patient Zero (2018) and Crawl (2019). In voice work he has been heard as JJ in Bob the Builder, as Bulgy and Beresford in Thomas & Friends, and in the film Journey Beyond Sodor (2017), plus PC Malcolm Williams in Fireman Sam. He narrated the ITV game show The Cube and played Ulysses in Outlander. In 2013 he appeared in a West End revival of Fences.
65years old
Turns 66 on September 15in 337 days
- Born Upper Clapton
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as Colin Andrew Ignatius Peter McFarlane
Movie Career
- Films
- 12
- Career span
- 34 years1985 to 2019
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First role
In 1985 McFarlane landed his first professional television role, playing Detective Sergeant Watson in a three episode guest stint on ITV's police procedural Dempsey and Makepeace.
First role
McFarlane made his film debut in A Mulatto Song, a 1996 short about George Bridgetower, a virtuoso violinist who lived in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Early training
McFarlane attended the Perse School in Cambridge, and afterward he read drama at Loughborough University, where he graduated in 1983.
Beyond film
McFarlane took part in a revival of August Wilson's Fences in 2013, sharing the stage with Lenny Henry at London's West End venue, the Duchess Theatre.
Colin McFarlane movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared2016as Seth
IMDb rating 6.37.1K votes
Most often with
Christopher Nolan directed two of these films. Seven actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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All films by Christopher Nolan
Also two films together1 more actor
- Keith WickhamThomas & Friends: Journey Beyond Sodor - The Movie (2017) and Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Online
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