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name: "Basil Collins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/basil-collins"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 January 1917"
died: "17 December 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T04:48:41.368713+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Basil Collins

Actor. Born 24 January 1917 in Harlan County, Kentucky, USA. Died 17 December 1980.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 January 1917, Harlan County, Kentucky, USA
- **Died:** 17 December 1980
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2466751/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1137030

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Harlan County U.S.A.*](https://film.one/film/harlan-county-u-s-a.md) (88)

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## Biography

Bazel Collins, also credited as Basil Collins, was an American mine foreman and World War II veteran from Harlan County, Kentucky. Born on 24 January 1917, he worked for the Eastover Mining Company during the 1973–1974 Brookside coal miners' strike against Duke Power.

Collins appears in the 1976 documentary *Harlan County U.S.A.*, directed by Barbara Kopple, as Self - Mine Foreman. The Academy Award-winning film documents the strike, in which Collins was involved in confrontations with striking miners and their supporters while escorting replacement workers. He died on 17 December 1980 in Harlan County.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Harlan County U.S.A.* (1976), Fi1m 88, as Self - Mine Foreman — [page](https://film.one/film/harlan-county-u-s-a.md)

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