Colin Abel Jeavons was born on 20 October 1929 and is a British retired actor and TV presenter.
16 Facts About Colin Jeavons
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Colin Jeavons is known for his character roles and has worked in theatre, television and film, especially in literary adaptations and roles related to the works of Charles Dickens.
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Colin Jeavons began appearing in BBC literary adaptation roles including a production of Pride and Prejudice, an association with Dickens productions on BBC Television began in 1959 with Bleak House as Richard Carstone, and Great Expectations as Herbert Pocket.
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Colin Jeavons portrayed Uriah Heep in the BBC's David Copperfield.
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Colin Jeavons appeared in the 1981 Doctor Who spin-off K-9 and Company, and he narrated two BBC children's animated series, namely Barnaby and Joe.
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Colin Jeavons appeared in the Play For Today production of David Edgar's play about British neo-Nazis, Destiny.
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Colin Jeavons appeared as Samson Brass in another BBC Dickens production, The Old Curiosity Shop, and in another version of Great Expectations, this time as Wemmick.
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Colin Jeavons played "with chilling authority" in the words of writer David Stuart Davies, Professor Moriarty in The Baker Street Boys, and "with great panache" Inspector Lestrade in the Granada Television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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Colin Jeavons was Briggs, the lawyer who halts the marriage between Jane and Rochester, in a BBC version of Jane Eyre.
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Colin Jeavons played the solicitor Vholes in another BBC adaptation of Bleak House in 1985.
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Colin Jeavons featured in the 1990 television drama House of Cards by Michael Dobbs, as Tim Stamper, Tory Whip and ally of Ian Richardson's Francis Urquhart.
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Colin Jeavons played Del Boy's lawyer, Solly Atwell, in Only Fools And Horses.
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Colin Jeavons played the role of Genrikh Yagoda in the 1992 television film Stalin.
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Colin Jeavons appeared in many films over the years, often as priests or vicars.
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Colin Jeavons retired from acting in 1993; his final role was a reprise of Tim Stamper in To Play the King.
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Barney Colin Jeavons is the former Arts Centre Director of the West End Centre in Aldershot.