Len Collin
Acting
Biography
Len Collin was born in London, with Irish heritage, and dual citizenship. His mother was originally from Easkey, County Sligo and he credits her with his storytelling ability. He trained as a professional actor at Arts Educational Drama School, London and is also a production and Direction MA graduate of the Huston Film School, Galway, Ireland. Len started writing for the theatre in the early nineties. His award winning play Box, set during the first Gulf War and WW1 brought him to the attention of TV producers and he began writing for that medium. In 2010 he wrote, directed and produced the award winning Irish web series Covies. He is the Director of the feature film Sanctuary, which earned a Best Director gong at Newport Beach Film Festival in 2017. He is a disability advocate and university lecturer. He is married with three children.
Known For
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
Casualty
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
A Touch of Frost
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
The Bill
The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.
Soldier Soldier
The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its continual battle to solve the problems the times, in this case the fictional Eastland of East Anglia.
The Chief
Comedienne Dawn French tackles dark, tongue-in-cheek thrillers as her various characters embark on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another, she is involved with murder — either committing the crime or even getting bumped off herself!
Murder Most Horrid
A fiery Spanish woman is about to marry a kind British man when she meets a Brazilian actor who ignites in her a flame of lust she can't ignore.
Dot the I
Two friends are drawn into a seedy underworld of extortion and violence when they try to blackmail a gang of bank robbers.
High Heels and Low Lifes
Larry and Sophie are in love. They bribe Tom to book them into a hotel for an afternoon's tryst and look forward to getting to know each other, like countless couples before them. But Larry and Sophie aren't any couple; they both have intellectual disabilities. Larry has Down's, Sophie has epilepsy and Tom is their carer. In a world that conspires to keep them apart, will love triumph?