Colin Tapley
Biography
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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.
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Full filmography
- Richard the Lionheart (1962) as Steward
- Richard the Lionheart (1962) as Chamberlain
- The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956) as Lord Vanton
- The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956) as Everard
- Samson and Delilah (1949) as Prince
- Peter Ibbetson (1935) as Clerk (uncredited)
- The Dam Busters (1955) as Doctor W.H. Glanville, C.B., C.B.E.
- The Sundowners (1960) as Palmer (uncredited)
- Barbados Quest (1955) as Lord Valchrist
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) as Barrett
- Becky Sharp (1935) as William Dobbin
- My Marriage (1936) as Sir Philip Burleigh
- Innocent Meeting (1959) as Stannard
- The Black Room (1935) as Paul Hassel as a young lieutenant
- North West Mounted Police (1940) as Mountie
- Arizona (1940) as Bart Massey
- Booloo (1938) as Captain Robert Rogers
- Angels One Five (1952) as Adjutant
- If I Were King (1938) as Jehan LeLoup
- The Last Outpost (1935) as Lieutenant Prescott
- Thank You, Jeeves! (1936) as Tom Brock
- Wings of Danger (1952) as Inspector Maxwell
- King of Gamblers (1937) as Joe
- Souls at Sea (1937) as Donaldson (uncredited)