Colin Vancao

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography11 Titles

#1Minder

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as French Waiter

7.1 / 10
ComedyDramaAction & Adventure

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

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#2The Persuaders!

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes as The Major

7.7 / 10
ComedyAction & AdventureCrime

An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

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#3Steptoe and Son

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes as Mustachioed Auction Bidder (uncredited)

7.8 / 10
Comedy

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old Ned", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was remade in the US as Sanford and Son, in Sweden as Albert & Herbert and in the Netherlands as Stiefbeen en zoon. In 1972 a movie adaptation of the series, Steptoe and Son, was released in cinemas, with a second Steptoe and Son Ride Again in 1973.

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#4The Charge of the Light Brigade

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Capt. Charteris

6.2 / 10
DramaHistoryWar

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.

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#5Roadgames

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Fred Frugal

6.5 / 10
MysteryThrillerHorror

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.

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#6Carry On Loving

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Wilberforce Grubb

5.7 / 10
RomanceComedy

The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but still produces a pamphlet called 'The Wit to Woo'. The strange collection of hopefuls lead to some outlandish matches—and jealousies are bound to lead to trouble.

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#7There's a Girl in My Soup

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Cigar-Smoking Wedding Guest (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.

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#8The Reckoning

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Party Guest

7.5 / 10
Drama

Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died in a fight with some Anglo-Saxon teddy boys. It becomes a matter of honour for him to take his revenge without involving the police.

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#9Doctor in Trouble

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Mustachioed Man (uncredited)

5.0 / 10
Comedy

Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise ship is an old school chum of Burke's who plays 'Dr.Dare' in a very popular TV series and who women flock to. Burke decides to join the cruise, but is first apprehended as a stowaway, and then becomes the captain's steward. For Burke, trying to talk to Ophelia is a hard enough task, but he meets some funny characters on board, such as a pools winner and a very stubborn captain.

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#10Ooh...You Are Awful

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Businessman on Escalator (uncredited)

4.8 / 10
Comedy

Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000, but during their flight out, Charlie is arrested for scamming an American and a dog. Reggie stores the money in a Swiss bank and after Charlie is released, is about to tell him where...when he is suddenly killed by Sid Sabbath's gang, whose girlfriend was dating the (now) deceased! The only leads are four tattoos on the girls Reggie had affairs with while Charlie was in jail, but Sabbath is on Charlie's trail, and the tricked Italians have contracted the mob - to find the money, and then kill him...

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#11Father

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m as Judge

6.0 / 10
Drama

On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family.

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