Sid Colin

Sid Colin (1920–1989) was an English screenwriter, working for both television and the cinema.[1] He is best remembered for the television comedies The Army Game (1957–59), Up Pompeii! (1969–1970) and the film Percy's Progress (1974). On Up Pompeii! and Carry On Spying (1964), he collaborated with regular Carry On series writer Talbot Rothwell.[2]

Sid Colin
BornSid Kyla Colin
1920
England, UK
Died12 December 1989
OccupationScriptwriter
NationalityBritish
Period1944-1982
GenreTelevision
Notable worksHow Do You View? (1949-1953)
Here's Television (1951)
The Army Game (1957-1961)
Living It Up (1957-1958)
Meet the Champ (1960)
Up Pompeii (1969-1970)
On the House (1970-1971)
Whoops Baghdad(1973)

Colin's other sitcoms include Meet the Champ (1960), On the House (1970–71) and Whoops Baghdad (1973).[3]

Selected filmography
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gollark: It is too late, orbital mind control lasers *are* active.
gollark: Also the W3C markup validator finally shut up.
gollark: I fixed the embedding! https://osmarks.tk/p3.html
gollark: https://git.osmarks.tk/osmarks/potatOS & https://potatos.madefor.cc/

References
  1. "Sid Colin". BFI. Archived from the original on 2012-07-21.
  2. "Sid Colin - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  3. "Whoops Baghdad". comedy.co.uk.


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