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name: "Harry Welchman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-welchman"
fi1m_id: "harry-welchman"
imdb_id: "nm0919683"
tmdb_id: 1015081
wikidata_id: "Q5673293"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 February 1886"
died: "3 January 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:13:05.377514+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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# Harry Welchman

## Identity

Harry Welchman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harry-welchman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harry-welchman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0919683
- **TMDB ID:** 1015081
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5673293
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5673293, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919683/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1015081

Actor. Born 24 February 1886 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK. Died 3 January 1966.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 February 1886, Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK
- **Died:** 3 January 1966
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5673293, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919683/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1015081

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp*](https://film.one/film/the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp.md) (91)

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## Biography

Harry Welchman (24 February 1886 – 3 January 1966) was an English actor best known as a leading performer in musical theatre on the London stage between the wars. Born in Barnstaple, Devon, he began his stage career in the early 1900s and appeared in numerous musical comedies, including long-running productions such as *The Arcadians* (1909).

Welchman made around nineteen films between 1915 and 1954. His screen roles included Major Davies in *The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp* (1943), Captain Ferrier in *The Gentle Sex* (1943), and parts in *The Common Touch* (1941), *This Was Paris* (1942), *Waltz Time* (1945) and *Lisbon Story* (1946). He later lived in Penzance, Cornwall, where he died.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp* (1943), Fi1m 91, as Major Davies — [page](https://film.one/film/the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp.md)

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