Is James Bolam Still Alive?

James Bolam is alive and well. He is currently 88 years old. Bolam and his actress wife, Susan Jameson, live in Wisborough Green, West Sussex, and Chiswick, London. They have a child together. Bolam is a member of the Stage Golfing Society and enjoys golf.

James Christopher Bolam MBE is an actor from England. He is best known for his roles as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and the sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

Bolam’s first professional role was as an understudy for Ronnie Barker in Chekhov’s “Platonov” at the Royal Court Theatre.

He first appeared on screen in the early 1960s, first in television shows like Z-Cars and then in the Northern social realist films A Kind of Loving and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (both 1962), where he played the title character’s best friend (played by Tom Courtenay).

Bolam was Roy Plomley’s guest on Desert Island Discs in March 1977, where he chose the “Violin Concerto in D” by Ludwig van Beethoven as his favourite track, “The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien” as his favourite book.