Talk:James Bolam

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Age[edit]

Confusion about age. Main text says born 1935, but side-box says 1938. Cannot both be right! Sitush (talk) 00:36, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is resolved: 1938 Tim bates (talk) 18:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A search of the official Birth Index for the year 1938 does not reveal the registration of a birth in the name of a James C(hristopher) Bolam. However a search of the year 1935 does reveal the registration of a birth in the September quarter of that year of a James C Bolam in Sunderland. The mother's maiden name is given as "Durey". The parents of James Bolam were Robert Alfred Bolam & Marion Alice Durey. Causeyfarm (talk) 17:24, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See also the following link to "Bygonederbyshire" which gives his date of birth as 16th June 1935: http://www.bygonederbyshire.co.uk/stories/James-Bolam-Likely-Lad-Bemrose-School/article-1746488-detail/article.html Causeyfarm (talk) 23:42, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Place of birth[edit]

Sunderland is NOT in County Durham, it is in Tyne and Wear! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.192.38.44 (talk) 17:35, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sunderland was in County Durham in 1935. Mtaylor848 (talk) 14:38, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with File:Terry Collier.jpg[edit]

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err...bollocks. Best Wishes, Fairlightseven —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.20.18.139 (talk) 19:51, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The image has a rationale for the page Terry Collier but I doubt it could be justified on this page. Nontheless it improves the page and I'm certainly not going to remove it, Copyright is something I only pay a reluctant lip-service to. If an over-zelous editor with a penchant for copyright licencing enforcement wishes to remove it I will not object.

The claim of fair use is allowed for characters and may reasonably stand for a deceased actor. Being as James Bolam is still alive it is posible to obtain a free-use copy. Mtaylor848 (talk) 14:38, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Singer[edit]

James Bolam is a famous, honored and well loved actor whose career spans five or more decades. I think it would be a bit much to describe him as an actor and singer simply because he also sings. I have retained the reference to his participation in a choir, but I have removed references from the lede and the infobox, and a category item, that all appeared to be making too much of the singing. James Bolam is really not known, to the world at large, as a singer, any more than Stephen Jay Gould was known as a singer. --TS 20:48, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

James Bolam[edit]

  James Bolam looks like the American actor Bob Hope. I wonder if they arde cousins  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.208.251.159 (talk) 22:40, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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