Andrew T. Collins
Biography
Andrew T. Collins studied at Bristol University and trained at Webber Douglas Academy. He was an early member of Cheek By Jowl theatre company, completing 5 tours over 3 years and was part of the Olivier Award winning cast in their first London season of 3 plays at the Donmar Warehouse. Other theatre highlights included Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Benvolio in Romeo & Juliet in Regent's Park, Richard II in Two Planks and a Passion in York, Jake in Serious Money and Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest at Manchester Library. An eight year break from acting took in publishing and illustrating. Returning at 40, Andrew worked in seasons at the Nuffield, Southampton and Bristol's Tobacco Factory for Show of Strength and Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory (notably in Chekhov's Three Sisters as Kulygin) and a critically acclaimed performance as Erpingham in Orton's The Erpingham Camp (with Johnny Vegas) at the Liverpool Everyman and the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh. More recently, Andrew has worked extensively in radio drama, as a presenter and voice artist particularly through the inimitable agency.
Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles
Drama Series - 2000, 16 episodes • as Customer
Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black. Bernard’s devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and wilful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny, his assistant. Bearded, sweet and good, Manny is everything that Bernard isn’t and is punished by Bernard relentlessly just for the crime of existing. They depend on each other for meaning as Fran, their oldest friend, depends on them for distraction. Black Books is a haven of books, wine and conversation, the only threat to the group’s peace and prosperity is their own limitless stupidity.
Drama Series - 2000, 16 episodes • as Andrew (as Andrew Collins)
Six friends in their thirties navigate dating, sexual adventures, and mishaps on their quest to find love.
Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes • as Neurologist (as Andrew Collins)
University lecturer Robert Bridge becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy.
Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as RAF Officer
Hi-de-Hi! is a British sitcom set in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, during 1959 and 1960, and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who also wrote Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum amongst others. It aired on the BBC from 1980 to 1988. The series revolved around the lives of the camp's management and entertainers, most of them struggling actors or has-beens. The inspiration was the experience of writers Perry and Croft: after being demobilised from the army, Perry was a Redcoat at Butlin's, Pwllheli during the holiday season. The series gained large audiences and won a BAFTA as Best Comedy Series in 1984. In 2004, it came 40th in Britain's Best Sitcom and in a 2008 poll on Channel 4, 'Hi-de-Hi!" was voted the 35th most popular comedy catchphrase.
Drama Series - 2001, 16 episodes • as Vicar #2
Danny Spencer is a voice artist who is recently bereaved and having a mid-life crisis. As he continues to voice a kung fu bear he must also deal with his friends, including a high school friend, an old flame, two lazy unemployed no hopers, a 50 something who acts like a 20-year-old and two dance music loving students who work with Danny at the voice studio. But none of this compares to the constant stress of turning 40 and remembering your youth.
Movie - 2002, 2h 15m • as Callender Sr.
Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as Vicar
Andy Spader has been happily married for 13 years, with two teenage children, when he meets a younger woman, Claire Holmes, after going to investigate a break-in at her travel agency shop. Having told his wife that he is leaving her, he learns that Claire has just discovered that she has an inoperable brain tumour and has only a few months to live.