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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.
Known For
Samson and Delilah
as Prince
3 Steps to the Gallows
as Arnold Winslow
North West Mounted Police
as Mountie
The Dam Busters
as Doctor W.H. Glanville, C.B., C.B.E.
The Black Room
as Paul Hassel as a young lieutenant
The Sundowners
as Palmer (uncredited)
Becky Sharp
as William Dobbin
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
as Barrett
If I Were King
as Jehan LeLoup
Arizona
as Bart Massey
