---
name: "Colin Vaines"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/colin-vaines"
fi1m_id: "colin-vaines"
imdb_id: "nm0883267"
tmdb_id: 28901
wikidata_id: "Q5145633"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "16 June 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-02T23:55:32.682035+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."
---

# Colin Vaines

## Identity

Colin Vaines

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/colin-vaines
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** colin-vaines
- **IMDb ID:** nm0883267
- **TMDB ID:** 28901
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5145633
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Vaines, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5145633, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0883267/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/28901

Producer. Born 16 June 1957.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 16 June 1957
- **Active:** 2002–2017
- **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as producer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 74 (1), 2010s 67 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 69 to 66 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Romance 2, Crime 1, History 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $233m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Vaines, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5145633, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0883267/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/28901

## Biography

Colin Vaines is a British film and television producer and creative consultant. He began his career in 1977 as a journalist with the trade paper *Screen International*, which he later edited. In 1984 he left journalism to run the UK's National Film Development Fund and consult for British Screen Finance, later holding development roles at Columbia Pictures and David Puttnam's Enigma Productions.

Vaines made his producing debut in 1992 with the Emmy-winning television film *A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia*. He has held senior positions at Miramax Films, The Weinstein Company and GK Films, serving as co-executive producer on *Gangs of New York* (2002) and executive producer on *The Young Victoria* (2009), *The Rum Diary* (2011) and *London Boulevard* (2010). As a freelance producer he has credits including *Coriolanus* (2011), *My Week with Marilyn* (2011), *W.E.* (2011), *Miss Potter* (2006) and *Breaking and Entering* (2006).

*Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool* (2017), which he produced with Barbara Broccoli, was nominated for three BAFTA awards. Later credits include executive producer on *The Unforgivable* (2021) and *Red Dog: True Blue* (2016).

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool* (2017), Fi1m 66, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/film-stars-dont-die-in-liverpool.md)
- *Coriolanus* (2011), Fi1m 74, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/coriolanus.md)
- *My Week with Marilyn* (2011), Fi1m 62, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/my-week-with-marilyn.md)
- *Gangs of New York* (2002), Fi1m 74, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/gangs-of-new-york.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Branded* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Dirty, Sexy & Totally Iconic* (2023), Producer
- *Doctor Who Am I* (2022), Executive Producer
- *The Unforgivable* (2021), Executive Producer
- *The Man Who Got Carter* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool* (2017), Producer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/film-stars-dont-die-in-liverpool.md)
- *My Week with Marilyn* (2011), Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/my-week-with-marilyn.md)
- *The Rum Diary* (2011), Executive Producer
- *W.E.* (2011), Co-Producer
- *Coriolanus* (2011), Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/coriolanus.md)
- *London Boulevard* (2010), Executive Producer
- *Breaking and Entering* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Miss Potter* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Gangs of New York* (2002), Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/gangs-of-new-york.md)
- *Hotel Splendide* (2000), Production Consultant
- *B. Monkey* (1999), Producer
- *A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia* (1992), Producer
- *Bedlam*, Producer

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