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	~~==Selected filmography==~~
	* ''[[Golden Arrow (1949 film)\|Golden Arrow]]'' (1949)

	==References==		==References==

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	\| birth_place = [[Islington]], London, England		\| birth_place = [[w:Islington\|Islington]], London, England
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	'''Sid Colin''' (born '''Sidney Coblentz'''; 31 August 1915 – 12 December 1989) was an [[England\|English]] [[scriptwriter]], working for [[radio]], [[television]] and the [[film\|cinema]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba13a2a96\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721210729/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba13a2a96\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2012-07-21\|title=Sid Colin\|work=BFI}}</ref> He is best remembered for the television comedies ''[[The Army Game]]'' (1957–59), ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'' (1969–1970), and films including ''[[Carry On Spying]]'' and ''[[Percy's Progress]]''. He occasionally collaborated with regular [[Carry On (film series)\|Carry On]] series writer [[Talbot Rothwell]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/sid-colin-p159278/filmography\|title=Sid Colin - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie\|work=AllMovie}}</ref> Earlier in his career, he was a musician and occasional lyricist.		'''Sid Colin''' (born '''Sidney Coblentz'''; 31 August 1915 – 12 December 1989) was an [[w:England\|English]] [[w:scriptwriter\|scriptwriter]], working for [[w:radio\|radio]], [[w:television\|television]] and the [[w:film\|cinema]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba13a2a96\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721210729/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba13a2a96\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2012-07-21\|title=Sid Colin\|work=BFI}}</ref> He is best remembered for the television comedies ''[[The Army Game]]'' (1957–59), ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'' (1969–1970), and films including ''[[Carry On Spying]]'' and ''[[Percy's Progress]]''. He occasionally collaborated with regular [[Carry On (film series)\|Carry On]] series writer [[Talbot Rothwell]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/sid-colin-p159278/filmography\|title=Sid Colin - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie\|work=AllMovie}}</ref> Earlier in his career, he was a musician and occasional lyricist.

	==Biography==		==Biography==

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| period = 1930s-1982
| genre = Television, cinema, radio
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'''Sid Colin''' (born '''Sidney Coblentz'''; 31 August 1915 – 12 December 1989) was an [[England|English]] [[scriptwriter]], working for [[radio]], [[television]] and the [[film|cinema]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba13a2a96|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721210729/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba13a2a96|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-21|title=Sid Colin|work=BFI}}</ref> He is best remembered for the television comedies ''[[The Army Game]]'' (1957–59), ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'' (1969–1970), and films including ''[[Carry On Spying]]'' and ''[[Percy's Progress]]''. He occasionally collaborated with regular [[Carry On (film series)|Carry On]] series writer [[Talbot Rothwell]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/sid-colin-p159278/filmography|title=Sid Colin - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie|work=AllMovie}}</ref> Earlier in his career, he was a musician and occasional lyricist.

==Biography==
He was born in [[Islington]], London; his father Benjamin Coblentz was a [[Jew]]ish immigrant from [[Vilnius]] in the [[Russian Empire]], who worked in the [[fur trade]]. Sid Colin learned guitar and became a [[jazz]] fan.<ref name=colin>Sid Colin, ''And the Bands Played On'', Elm Tree Books, 1977, {{ISBN|0-241-10448-3}}, pp.9-12</ref>

After becoming an accomplished guitarist in the style of [[Django Reinhardt]], he left school and joined [[Ambrose and his Orchestra]]. As well as playing with the band in theatres and on radio broadcasts, Colin became known for interposing [[one-liner joke]]s and wisecracks in the style of [[Groucho Marx]]. In 1938, he was approached by musician and radio producer John Burnaby to join the comedy band [[Sid Millward]] and His Nitwits for their new [[BBC radio]] series. Colin wrote material for the show, and was described in the ''[[Radio Times]]'' as "Muddler of Ceremonies".<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/f19cc1f3252a429bb6b9612e31360522 ''Radio Times'', Issue 790, 20 November 1938]</ref>

After the start of the [[Second World War]], Colin and other members of Ambrose's orchestra formed the Heralds of Swing,<ref>[https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-2000199500 Digby Fairweather, ''Heralds of Swing'', ''Oxford Music Online'']. Retroieved 20 December 2020</ref> and then [[The Squadronaires]] (officially the [[RAF]] Dance Orchestra). They toured extensively with [[ENSA]], and Colin wrote the lyrics to the song "If I Only Had Wings", composed by [[Ronnie Aldrich]] and recorded by [[Geraldo (bandleader)|Geraldo]] and his orchestra, which became an RAF anthem during the war and was later recorded by [[Vera Lynn]]. In 1944, the Squadronaires were commissioned to provide music for the film ''[[Starlight Serenade]]'', and Colin became one of the film script's co-writers.<ref name=mislaid>[https://www.mislaidcomedyheroes.com/sid-colin André Vincent, "Sid Colin", ''Mislaid Comedy Heroes'']. Retrieved 16 December 2020</ref>

In 1946, Colin was about to get married, did not want to continue touring, and was unwilling to make the fashionable change from acoustic to [[electric guitar]].<ref name=colin/> He returned to the BBC, and contributed scripts to such shows as ''The Show Must Go On!''. He became head writer on an established show, ''Navy Mixture'', where he introduced new characters voiced by [[Jon Pertwee]] and [[Jimmy Edwards]], among others. He also wrote for the panel show ''Ignorance Is Bliss'', for which Sid Millward's Nitwits supplied the music, and then joined the writing team led by [[Frank Muir]] and [[Denis Norden]] for the show ''Starlight Hour''. The show's producer, Roy Speer, then hired Colin to work with [[Eric Sykes]] on ventriloquist [[Peter Brough]]'s show, ''[[Educating Archie]]''.<ref name=mislaid/>

Colin moved into television comedy scriptwriting in the early 1950s, on ''[[Don't Look Now (1950 TV series)|Don't Look Now]]'', featuring [[Alfred Marks]], followed by the very successful ''[[How Do You View?]]'', starring [[Terry-Thomas]], on which Colin worked with co-writer [[Talbot Rothwell]]. He was then given free rein on a series starring [[Avril Angers]], ''Friends and Neighbours'', followed by the [[sitcom]] ''[[Dear Dotty]]'' in 1954, but neither was successful and Colin returned to radio work. He wrote ''[[Top of the Town]]'' for Terry-Thomas, and ''Shout for Joy!'' for [[Joy Nichols]]. He returned to television to work on [[Arthur Askey]]'s ''[[Living It Up (British TV series)|Living It Up]]'', and ''[[Ted Ray (comedian)|The Ted Ray Show]]'', and then wrote links and [[monologue]]s for ''[[Jimmy Wheeler|The Jimmy Wheeler Show]]''.<ref name=mislaid/>

In 1957, Colin created the sitcom ''[[The Army Game]]'' for [[Granada Television]]. The series, featuring [[William Hartnell]], [[Alfie Bass]], [[Bill Fraser]] and many others, was highly successful, running to 154 episodes in four series; Colin wrote 38 of the episodes. He also wrote the series' film spin-off, ''[[I Only Arsked!]]'', starring [[Bernard Bresslaw]], and several other films in the same year including ''[[Tommy the Toreador]]'' starring [[Tommy Steele]], and ''[[The Navy Lark (film)|The Navy Lark]]'', based on the successful radio series. In 1960 he wrote the television series ''Meet the Champ'', also starring Bresslaw.<ref name=mislaid/>

Colin started a four-year break from scriptwriting work in 1960, which it has been suggested may have been because of exhaustion combined with resentment at apparent [[plagiarism]] of some of his work. He returned in 1964, co-writing (with Talbot Rothwell) the script for ''[[Carry On Spying]]'', and also creating two television shows, ''How To Be An Alien'' starring Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and ''[[HMS Paradise]]'' starring [[Frank Thornton]]. In 1968, he was appointed Head of Light Entertainment at [[Yorkshire Television]], staying there for five years and giving comedian [[Les Dawson]] his first series of programmes.<ref name=mislaid/>

In 1970 he reunited with former writing partner Talbot Rothwell on the second series of ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'', contributing monologues and wisecracks. He continued to work with the show's star, [[Frankie Howerd]], on the spin-off films ''[[Up Pompeii (film)|Up Pompeii]]'', ''[[Up the Chastity Belt ]]'', and ''[[Up the Front]]'', and finally the poorly-received sitcom ''[[Whoops Baghdad]]'' (1973).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/whoops_baghdad/|title=Whoops Baghdad|work=comedy.co.uk}}</ref> In 1974, he co-wrote the film ''[[Percy's Progress]]'' with [[Harry H. Corbett]] and [[Ian La Frenais]]. Colin also continued as a staff writer for both the [[BBC]] and [[ITV (network)|ITV]], contributing on such shows as ''[[Love Thy Neighbour (1972 TV series)|Love Thy Neighbour]]''.<ref name=mislaid/>

In 1977, he wrote the six-part television series ''And the Bands Played On'', and accompanying book, an anecdotal history of pre-war English dance bands.<ref name=colin/>

Sid Colin died in 1989, aged 74.<ref name=mislaid/>

==Selected filmography==
* ''[[Golden Arrow (1949 film)|Golden Arrow]]'' (1949)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|0171523}}

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