Biography/Resume: Colin Bower's first stage appearance was before an audience of wounded soldiers at a London Hospital as Happy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 1939.
On leaving school Colin went to live with his sister in Canada where he began a radio career and appeared regularly with the London Little Theatre Company. After seven years he moved to South Africa where he worked for the South African Broadcasting Company. In 1958 he returned to Britain and joined Television Wales and the West as Announcer/Newsreader and Interviewer, moving the following year to a similar position in Anglia Television. Then after a brief visit to Australia, he joined Tyne Tees Television before going 'freelance'. His television credits include parts in The Onedin Line, Warship, Coronation Street. Emmerdale, Brookside, Peak Practice, Boon, Byker Grove, and Signs and Wonders. His theatre credits include Educating Rita, Boy Meets Girl, Barretts of Wimpole Street, Toad of Toad Hall, Cinderella, Treasure Hunt, Pygmalion, My Three Angels, Dick Whittington amongst others. He is married with two adult children. His other interests include model railways, films, steam railway, psychic phenomena, cooking and good mystery stories.