Welland won the Oscar in 1982 for Best Original Screenplay, and gave his famous "the British are coming" acceptance speech. He was also an accomplished actor and won a BAFTA for playing Mr Farthing in ...

LONDON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Oscar-winning writer and actor Colin Welland, who won an Academy Award in 1982 for his screenplay for "Chariots of Fire", has died after suffering from Alzheimer's disease ...

Mike Bartlett’s functional script is a pretty accurate re-run of Colin Welland’s screenplay, though he’s “stranded out” a bit more the parallel stories of Eric Liddell (Jack Lowden), the Scottish ...

Actor and writer Colin Welland, who famously told Hollywood "the British are coming" when he won an Academy Award for "Chariots of Fire," has died. He was 81. His family said in a statement Tuesday ...