Ian Colin

Ian Colin Marmaduke de Collieur Wetherell (1912–1987), most often credited simply as Ian Colin, was a British film and television actor.^[1] During the 1930s, Colin was a leading man in quota quickies.^[2] He later acted predominantly in television shows such as The Quatermass Experiment, Emergency-Ward 10 and Coronation Street.^[3]

Ian Colin
in The Invisible Man ep: Odds Against Death (1958)
Born	Ian Colin Marmaduke de Collieur Wetherell (1912-05-16)16 May 1912 Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia
Died	20 February 1987(1987-02-20) (aged 74)
Occupation(s)	Film actor Television actor
Years active	1933–1967
Spouse	June Moir ​ ​ (m. 1949; died 1984)​
Children	Peter Wetherell

Colin was the son of M. A. Wetherell and Lena McNaughton.^[4] In his youth, he was involved, with his father, also an actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and big-game hunter, in creating the hoax "surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster -- he bought the materials and took the picture.^[5]

Selected filmography

• Cross Currents (1935)
• Late Extra (1935)
• Blue Smoke (1935)
• Men of Yesterday (1936)
• Wings Over Africa (1936)
• The Small Man (1936)
• Toilers of the Sea (1936)
• Blind Man's Bluff (1936)
• Born That Way (1936)
• It's Never Too Late to Mend (1937)
• Darts Are Trumps (1938)
• “A Dream of Love” (1939)
• The Queen of Spades (1949)
• The Adventures of Jane (1949)
• The Big Chance (1957)
• The Two-Headed Spy (1958)
• Witness in the Dark (1959)
• Dangerous Afternoon (1961)
• Strongroom (1962)

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. History of the British Film: Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985 .