John Colin McCormack was a Welsh actor who enjoyed success in classical stage performances and television shows including BBC TV's Dixon of Dock Green, a show he returned to twenty years later when he played a police constable.
15 Facts About Colin McCormack
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Colin McCormack nonetheless appeared in a wide range of roles including Man About the House, The Good Life and Yes Minister.
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Colin McCormack tutored and coached at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where his students included Ewan McGregor, Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.
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Colin McCormack died of cancer aged 62 after a short illness, following a tour of Romeo and Juliet in Hong Kong with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Colin McCormack was born in Penarth near Cardiff in Glamorgan, Wales on 2 December 1941, during the Second World War, the eldest son of a railway worker.
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The decade ended with Colin McCormack playing Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing in a Royal Shakespeare Company UK tour that started in the Autumn of 1979 and continued over into the spring of 1980.
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The 1980 season continued with Colin McCormack taking four different roles in Barker's The Loud Boy's Life when he played Costall, Dampsing, Streatham, and Imber.
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Colin McCormack starred as Macduff in the Barbican Theatre's 1988 showing of Adrian Noble's Macbeth and again in 1989.
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The 1990s started with Colin McCormack taking a starring role as gang member Dolin in the stage production of A Clockwork Orange at the Barbican Theatre.
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Colin McCormack returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the 1998 and 1999 seasons when the company alternated performances of three plays where he played Mike in Richard Nelson's Goodnight Children Everywhere, the Duke of Milan in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Baptista in the bawdy Elizabethan comedy The Taming of the Shrew.
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Colin McCormack reprised the last role for a small-scale Royal Shakespeare Company tour of the UK during the summer of 2000.
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Colin McCormack returned to the Royal Court in 1986 to star in the original stage production of Jim Cartwright's seminal play Road.
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Colin McCormack took on the dual roles of Chandebise and Poche in Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear by the Welsh company "Theatr Clwyd" in 1993 and in a number of non-company appearances played Wangel in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea at the Blackfriars Theatre in 1996, Lord Kent in the Haymarket Theatre's 1997 showing of King Lear, Estragon in Waiting for Godot in 2000 at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester.
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Colin McCormack met the actress and movement specialist Wendy Allnutt while they were studying together at the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1963, and they married in 1968 after they had both graduated.
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In late 2003 Colin McCormack was playing Lord Capulet in a tour of Hong Kong with the Royal Shakespeare Company's Romeo and Juliet when he first started to feel unwell.