Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1907-05-07
Day of Death
1995-12-01
Place of Birth
Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
Colin Tapley
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Colin Tapley (7 May 1907 – 1 December 1995) was a British actor. Born in New Zealand, he served in the Royal Air Force and an expedition to Antarctica before winning a Paramount Pictures talent contest and moving to Hollywood. He acted in several films before returning to Britain during the Second World War as a flight controller with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He returned briefly to New Zealand before returning once again to Britain to renew his acting career. His most famous role is as William Glanville in The Dam Busters but he spent much of his later career typecast as a police inspector, a role he played in several films and TV series before retiring to Gloucestershire. Description above from the Wikipedia article Colin Tapley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (51)
Strongroom
1962
Emergency
1962Gang War
1962The Lamp in Assassin Mews
1962
So Evil, So Young
1961
The Sundowners
1960
Compelled
1960An Honourable Murder
1960
Man Accused
1959
Innocent Meeting
1959
The Safecracker
1958
Stranger in Town
1957
Barbados Quest
1955
The Dam Busters
1955
