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Colin Jeavons
Born: 29th Oct 1929 Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
Dept: Acting
Colin Jeavons is a respected British actor known for his versatile performances across film, television, and theater. With a career spanning several decades, Jeavons showcased his talent in various roles, demonstrating a wide range of characters and genres. While not directly associated with "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," his notable appearances in numerous British television series and stage productions contributed to his recognition in the entertainment industry. Jeavons' dedication to his craft and his ability to portray diverse characters with depth and authenticity earned him respect among peers and audiences alike.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 93
Film: 31 (33%)
Television: 62 (67%)
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Filmography
2023
The Doctor and his friends find themselves in the lost city of Atlantis, where the crazed Professor Zaroff has convinced the people of Atlantis that h ... view
Character:
Damon (voice)
Nov 1993 (first aired)
Francis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda. ... view
Character:
Tim Stamper (4 ep.)
1992
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. Through the eyes and memories of Anna Aliluyeva, Stalin’s granddaughter, the film t ... view
Character:
Yagoda
1992
For years, a blackmailer has been preying on the weaknesses of others throughout London. When Holmes hears of the utter misery this mystery man is cre ... view
Character:
Inspector Lestrade
Dec 1991 (first aired)
A dramatization of two generations of the Viennese Strauss family, whose dance music and operettas dominated much of Europe and beyond for most of the ... view
Character:
Civil Servant in License Office (1 ep.)
Aug 1991 (first aired)
Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s. ... view
Character:
Duroque (1 ep.)
1991
During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fan ... view
Character:
Vicar
1990
The Widowmaker is a 1990 made for television film starring Annabelle Apsion, Alun Armstrong, David Morrissey and Kenneth Welsh. The film deals with a ... view
Character:
Mr Crathew
Nov 1990 (first aired)
Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulo ... view
Character:
Tim Stamper (4 ep.)
Nov 1989 (first aired)
Blackeyes is a four-part BBC television miniseries written and directed by Dennis Potter, based on his novel of the same name. The complex, surreal dr ... view
Character:
Jamieson (4 ep.)
Jan 1988 (first aired)
Hannay is a 1988 spin-off prequel series to the 1978 film adaptation of John Buchan's novel The Thirty-Nine Steps which stars Robert Powell as Richard ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1986 (first aired)
This British series, based on books by John Mortimer, follows the rise of Leslie Titmuss from humble beginnings in the 1950s to Tory cabinet minister ... view
Character:
George Titmuss (14 ep.)
Sep 1986 (first aired)
Australian ex-cop Jack Bartholomew goes to Britain when he discovers he's heir to a family title; when he doesn't get on with his new family, he start ... view
Character:
Curator (1 ep.)
1986
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model C ... view
Character:
Pamphleteer
Jan 1986 (first aired)
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “di ... view
Character:
Bernard (1 ep.)
Apr 1985 (first aired)
Home to Roost is a British television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television in the 1980s. Written by Eric Chappell, it starred John Thaw as Henry Wi ... view
Character:
Edward Walker (1 ep.)
Apr 1985 (first aired)
Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House and it ... view
Character:
Vholes (1 ep.)
Feb 1985 (first aired)
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of ... view
Character:
Mr Vaughan (1 ep.)
1985
The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brillian ... view
Character:
Adolf Hitler
Jan 1985 (first aired)
Charters and Caldicott is a 1985 BBC mystery series featuring the characters Charters and Caldicott from the film The Lady Vanishes. It featured six 5 ... view
Character:
Rev. Lamb (1 ep.)
Nov 1984 (first aired)
After completing a two-year prison sentence for a bribe he didn't take, former DI Alan Lomax wants answers. With at least one luxury left - a narrowbo ... view
Character:
Neil Pember (2 ep.)
Oct 1984 (first aired)
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and d ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1984
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland. ... view
Character:
Glemp
Apr 1984 (first aired)
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. ... view
Character:
Inspector Lestrade (6 ep.)
Oct 1983 (first aired)
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee ... view
Character:
Briggs (4 ep.)
Sep 1983 (first aired)
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to ... view
Character:
Widdemeyer (1 ep.)
1983
Goff and Lytton have a dream – a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways. The reality is the boatyard of Josh Adkins and a r ... view
Character:
Lytton
Mar 1983 (first aired)
The Baker Street Boys is a British television series made by the BBC and first shown in 1983. The series is based around a gang of street urchins livi ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (8 ep.)
1981
Sarah Jane Smith arrives at the home of her Aunt Lavinia in the cozy village of Moreton Harwood, only to find that Lavinia is nowhere to be found and ... view
Character:
George Tracey
Dec 1981 (first aired)
A one-episode television pilot for a proposed 1981 spin-off of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features former series reg ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 1981 (first aired)
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way.
While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac ... view
Character:
Claude Raquin (1 ep.)
Oct 1981 (first aired)
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood ... view
Character:
Wemmick (8 ep.)
Sep 1981 (first aired)
Only Fools and Horses.... Is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally transmitted on BBC One from 1981 to 1 ... view
Character:
Solly Atwell (1 ep.)
Sep 1981 (first aired)
Kinvig is a sci-fi comedy television series made for British television in 1981.
Ineffectual dreamer Des Kinvig (Tony Haygarth) runs a rundown little ... view
Character:
Jim Piper (7 ep.)
1981
Lazy repairman Des Kinvig's life changes when he imagines meeting a glamorous alien from Mercury, who looks a lot like his latest customer Miss Griffi ... view
Character:
Jim Piper
1981
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters ... view
Character:
Vicar
1981
An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive. ... view
Character:
Max Quordlepleen
Jan 1981 (first aired)
Don't Panic! The story of Arthur Dent, an average Englishman whose life was spared by his friend, who turned out to be an alien, while the planet Eart ... view
Character:
Max Quordlepleen (1 ep.)
Dec 1980 (first aired)
The four-part miniseries tells the story of a farm boy who becomes involved in a murder case between two feuding noble families in England at the time ... view
Character:
Dyer (4 ep.)
1980
Colin Jeavons is the German composer Anton Webern who survives Naziism only to be shot by an American GI in the closing days of WW2. Daniel Gerroll pl ... view
Character:
The Composer
Jul 1980 (first aired)
Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murd ... view
Character:
Mr. A.T. Lawrence (1 ep.)
1980
David Nau leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation in the Caribbean. When reporter Blair Maynard and hi ... view
Character:
Hizzoner
Dec 1979 (first aired)
The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1979 BBC miniseries based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It was directed by Julian Amyes, and adapted by William Trevor. ... view
Character:
Sampson Brass (7 ep.)
Oct 1979 (first aired)
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley. ... view
Character:
Fribbins (1 ep.)
Lockwood (1 ep.)
Oct 1979 (first aired)
Terry and June Medford are both middle aged and beginning to find the trials of life are more difficult as they try to succeed in their daily lives. T ... view
Character:
Police Sergeant (1 ep.)
Sep 1979 (first aired)
Shoestring is a BBC detective drana set in Bristol and starring Trevor Eve as private detective Eddie Shoestring, who operatee his own show on Radio W ... view
Character:
Ellery (1 ep.)
1979
On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around, t ... view
Character:
Donald
1979
A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion. ... view
Character:
Neeley
1978
When he finds himself plagued with nightmares about a historic battle fought on the site of the village he lives in, delinquent Cornish teenager Jonah ... view
Character:
Mr. Johnson
1978
A small town shopkeeper is conned into standing for an extreme right-wing party at a by-election, and later discovers that it's financed by the corpor ... view
Character:
Dennis Turner
1978
Magpie wins a duck which proves to be alive and no use for the Sunday dinner. The kids invent a device which makes the duck seem to talk. ... view
Character:
Judge
1976
A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of m ... view
Character:
Commissioner
Jun 1976 (first aired)
Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile constituency ... view
Character:
Bernard Shaw (3 ep.)
1976
A supermarket offers free groceries to the winner of a Shrove Tuesday pancake race. The kids, after messy experiments with pancake batter, enter Susie ... view
Character:
Supermarket Manager
Sep 1975 (first aired)
Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print for such medical soaps as Casualty, Holby City, plus da ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jan 1975 (first aired)
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter. ... view
Character:
Leonard Gold (1 ep.)
Dec 1974 (first aired)
Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britai ... view
Character:
The Honorable Robert Boyle (1 ep.)
Jul 1974 (first aired)
Wodehouse Playhouse is a British television comedy series based on the short stories of P. G. Wodehouse. From 1974 to 1978, three series and a pilot w ... view
Character:
Stranger (1 ep.)
Mar 1974 (first aired)
"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with ... view
Character:
Printer (1 ep.)
Mar 1974 (first aired)
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC. ... view
Character:
Anton Webern (1 ep.)
1974
A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife so he can be with his mistress, but his wife mysteriously disappears before he can carry out his plan. ... view
Character:
Bob Dawson
Nov 1973 (first aired)
ITV sitcom about an imaginative young man. 26 episodes (2 series), 1973 - 1974. Stars Jeff Rawle, George A. Cooper, Pamela Vezey, May Warden and other ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (25 ep.)
Jul 1973 (first aired)
Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios. ... view
Character:
Charles Kingsley (1 ep.)
Jan 1972 (first aired)
The Shadow of the Tower is a historical drama that was broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It was a prequel to the earlier serials The Six Wives of Henry VIII ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (13 ep.)
1971
Gerry Muddiman works for a large American corporation, supposedly modern and forward-thinking, but whose style of modern business paternalism and meth ... view
Character:
Production Monitor
1970
An asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him. ... view
Character:
Tucker
Oct 1970 (first aired)
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more tha ... view
Character:
Dennis Turner (1 ep.)
Neeley (1 ep.)
Donald Duck (1 ep.)
Lytton (1 ep.)
Production Monitor (1 ep.)
1970
From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the wor ... view
Character:
Earnest Man
1970
The rise of Charles Dickens, from poverty to prosperity, traced and reflected in his writings. ... view
Character:
Wilkie Collins
Feb 1970 (first aired)
Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the t ... view
Character:
Botting (1 ep.)
1969
Evil lurks in the gloomy house at Markham Manor where a deranged Sir Edward is the chained prisoner of his brother Julian. When Sir Edward escapes, he ... view
Character:
Doctor (uncredited)
Sep 1968 (first aired)
An anthology of 1920s set plays and musicals, transmissioned from 10 September to 10 December 1968 on BBC One. ... view
Character:
Perry (1 ep.)
Apr 1968 (first aired)
The Ronnie Barker Playhouse is a British anthology of six half-hour comedies showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker. All were broadcast by Associated ... view
Character:
Gosling (1 ep.)
Sep 1967 (first aired)
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1967
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of ... view
Character:
Priest
1967
The TARDIS arrives on an extinct volcanic island. Before long, the travellers are captured and taken into the depths of the Earth, where they find a h ... view
Character:
Damon
Jan 1966 (first aired)
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations ... view
Character:
Uriah Heep (4 ep.)
Oct 1965 (first aired)
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a ... view
Character:
Snake (1 ep.)
Kislytsin (1 ep.)
Jun 1965 (first aired)
The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada Televisi ... view
Character:
Dr. Jim Pearson (1 ep.)
Sep 1964 (first aired)
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although ada ... view
Character:
Barry Raines (1 ep.)
May 1964 (first aired)
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first reg ... view
Character:
Colonel Levin (1 ep.)
Mar 1964 (first aired)
A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC progr ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Nov 1963 (first aired)
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling ... view
Character:
Damon (4 ep.)
Jan 1962 (first aired)
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Nov 1961 (first aired)
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hin ... view
Character:
Spanish Officer (1 ep.)
Jan 1961 (first aired)
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, ... view
Character:
Stanton (2 ep.)
Oct 1960 (first aired)
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch a ... view
Character:
Jean Metayer (1 ep.)
Sep 1960 (first aired)
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series. ... view
Character:
The Intruder (1 ep.)
Aug 1960 (first aired)
Dramatisation of Trollope's fifth novel set in the fictional county of Barsetshire. ... view
Character:
John Eames (6 ep.)
Oct 1959 (first aired)
Bleak House is the first BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of hal ... view
Character:
Richard Carstone (11 ep.)
Jan 1958 (first aired)
In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-cons ... view
Character:
Mr Wickham (3 ep.)