James Christopher Bolam MBE (born 16 June 1935) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh, Trevor Chaplin in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, Arthur Gilder in Born and Bred, Jack Halford in New Tricks and the title character of Grandpa in the CBeebies programme Grandpa in My Pocket. More about James Bolam
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Bolam was born on 16 June 1935 in Sunderland, County Durham. His father, Robert Alfred Bolam, was from Northumberland, and his mother, Marion Alice Drury, from County Durham. After attending Bede Grammar School, Sunderland, Bolam attended Bemrose School in Derby. Bolam trained as an articled clerk to a chartered accountant, before becoming an actor, and formally trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, where he won the gold medal and the Margaret Rawlings Cup. Lacking funding for his fees, he worked in Lyons Corner House tearoom and West End restaurants, washing dishes at night and studying during the day.In total, we tracked 236 items since 01/09/2012. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.
The most expensive item with a signature of James Bolam (LIKELY LADS ~ RARE HAND SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED 10x8 PHOTO ~ JAMES BOLAM RODNEY BEWES) was sold in March 2015 for £75.00 while the cheapest item (James Bolam HAND Signed 8x10 Photo, Autograph, The Likely Lads, New Tricks (H)) found a new owner for £0.01 in December 2015. The month with the most items sold (9) was June 2021 with an average selling price of £4.25 for an autographed item of James Bolam. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in December 2016 with £44.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.75 was April 2020. In average, an autographed item from James Bolam is worth £3.95.
Most recently, these items with a signature of James Bolam were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
Item Title | Price | Store | |
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10 x 8 photo signed in person by James Bolam - New Tricks: Jack Halford - K361 | £1.72 | ||
10 x 8 photo signed in person by James Bolam - When The Boat Comes In - K237 | £1.00 | ||
10 x 8 photograph signed by James Bolam - New Tricks - Jack Halford - K214 | £8.00 | ||
Autograph of James Bolam Pre 1993 | £3.99 | ||
JAMES BOLAM - THE LIKELY LADS / ONLY WHEN I LAUGH- HAND SIGNED 10x8 PHOTO | £1.80 | ||
James Bolam - The Likely Lads Actor Signed Photo | £10.00 | ||
James Bolam Signed Autograph 12x8 Signature Photo TV The Likely Lads COA AFTAL | £19.99 | ||
James Bolam vintage signed page The Likely Lads AFTAL#145 | £10.54 | ||
ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO JAMES BOLAM The Likely Lads | £1.74 | ||
When the Boat Comes In 8x10 TV drama series photo signed by actor James Bolam | £0.99 |