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Sid Colin

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Occupation
  
Scriptwriter

Name
  
Sid Colin

Genre
  
Television


Period
  
1944-182

Nationality
  
British

Role
  
Screenwriter

Notable works
  
How Do You View? (1949-1953) Here's Television (1951) The Army Game (1957-1961) Living It Up (1957-1958) Meet the Champ (1960) Up Pompeii (1969-1970)On the House (1970-1971)Whoops Baghdad(1973)

Died
  
1989, London, United Kingdom

Books
  
Ella: The Life and Times of Ella Fitzgerald, And the Bands Played on, Al Bowlly, Percy's Progress

Movies and TV shows
  
The Army Game, Carry On Spying, Percy's Progress, Up the Front, Tommy the Toreador

Similar People
  
Talbot Rothwell, Gerald Thomas, Ralph Thomas, Stanley Holloway, John Paddy Carstairs

Sid Colin (1920 – 1989) was an English screenwriter, working for both television and the cinema. He is best rememberd for the television comedies The Army Game (1957–59), Up Pompeii! (1969–1970) and the film Percy's Progress (1974). On Up Pompeii! and Carry On Spying (1964), he collaborated with regular Carry On series writer Talbot Rothwell.

Colin's other sitcoms include Meet the Champ (1960), On the House (1970–71) and Whoops Baghdad (1973).

Selected filmography

  • Golden Arrow (1949)
  • References

    Sid Colin Wikipedia