1937-12-07 Manchester, England, UK
Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is an English actor. A long-time character actor, he came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Colley was born in Manchester. He played Jesus (very briefly indeed) in The Life of Brian, having also appeared in the earlier Monty Python-related production Ripping Yarns episode "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite" alongside Michael Palin. As a Shakespearean actor he played the Duke of Vienna in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Measure for Measure in 1979. Colley also held an important role in the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox, where he played a Soviet Colonel tasked with the protection of the Firefox and its secrets. Colley went on to play SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel in the World War II drama War and Remembrance. His character was charged with hiding the evidence of the Holocaust, and putting dead victims through "Economic Processing". According to comments Terry Gilliam (who directed him in Jabberwocky and co-starred with him in Life of Brian) made in the DVD audio commentaries for both films, Colley is a terrible stutterer in real life. When he had a role in a film, however, he could recite the lines perfectly. Stuttering is a character trait, however, in his role as the "Accordion Man" in the 1978 BBC television drama, Pennies from Heaven. He has also recently starred in BBC's HolbyBlue as a drunk and violent father, grandfather and father-in-law. He currently lives at Hythe in Kent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Colley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Scar Tissue | Weaver | 2013-09-12 |
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LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out | Admiral Piett (voice) | 2012-09-24 |
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Greetings | Ken | 2007-10-23 |
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Like Father Like Son | Rawsthorne | 2005-01-24 |
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Hold Back the Night | Uncle Bob | 1999-06-10 |
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Shadow Run | Larcombe | 1998-01-01 |
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Brassed Off | Greasley | 1996-11-01 |
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El último viaje de Robert Rylands | Archdale | 1996-10-18 |
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Solomon & Sheba | Nathan | 1995-02-26 |
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Unnatural Causes | Inspector Gerry Reckless | 1993-01-02 |
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La Vie de Bohème | Street Sweeper | 1992-02-27 |
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The Secret Life of Arnold Bax | John Ireland | 1992-11-22 |
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Prisoner of Honor | Capt. Dreyfus | 1991-11-02 |
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Kremlin Farewell | Sergej | 1990-04-01 |
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The Last Island | Nick | 1990-11-16 |
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The Plot to Kill Hitler | Wilhelm Keitel | 1990-01-30 |
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I Hired a Contract Killer | The Killer | 1990-10-12 |
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A Master of the Marionettes | Inspector Tennyson | 1989-04-18 |
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The Rainbow | Mr. Brunt | 1989-05-05 |
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A Summer Story | Jim | 1988-08-11 |
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Casanova | Le Duc | 1987-03-01 |
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The Whistle Blower | Bill Pickett | 1986-11-21 |
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Wallenberg: A Hero's Story | Adolph Eichmann | 1985-04-07 |
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Return to Waterloo | The Traveller | 1984-11-01 |
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The Scarlet and the Black | Capt. Hirsch | 1983-02-02 |
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Return of the Jedi | Admiral Piett | 1983-05-25 |
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Firefox | Colonel Kontarsky | 1982-06-18 |
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I Remember Nelson | Vice-Adm. Horatio Viscount Nelson | 1982-04-14 |
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Giro City | Martin | 1982-11-01 |
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The Empire Strikes Back | Admiral Piett | 1980-05-20 |
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Measure for Measure | Duke Vincentio | 1979-02-18 |
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Life of Brian | Jesus | 1979-08-17 |
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One Bummer News Day | Frank Benyon | 1978-12-12 |
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Les Misérables | Police Prefect | 1978-12-27 |
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Come the Revolution | Bruce Tetley | 1977-10-25 |
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Jabberwocky | 1st Fanatic | 1977-03-28 |
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Lisztomania | Frederic Chopin | 1975-10-10 |
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Flame | Tony Devlin | 1975-02-13 |
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Mahler | Krenek | 1974-04-04 |
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Juggernaut | Detective Brown | 1974-09-25 |
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Boldt | 1973-04-19 |
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The Triple Echo | Provo Corporal | 1972-11-16 |
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The Boy Friend | King in fantasy sequence (uncredited) | 1971-12-16 |
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The Music Lovers | Modeste Tchaikovsky | 1971-02-12 |
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The Devils | Legrand | 1971-07-16 |
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Performance | Tony Farrell (as Ken Colley) | 1970-08-03 |
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Dance of the Seven Veils | 1970-02-15 | |
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The Blood Beast Terror | James | 1968-02-01 |
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The Jokers | De Winter | 1967-05-15 |
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How I Won the War | 2nd Replacement | 1967-10-18 |
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Three Clear Sundays | Nick | 1965-04-07 |
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Seventy Deadly Pills | Covent Garden porter | 1963-01-01 |
