Colin Higgins

Acting

Colin Higgins

Overview

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Death date
Dec 05, 2012

Colin Higgins

Known For

Oliver Twist
4 Episodes
DOLBY
TV Show 1999

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist is a 1999 television mini-series produced by ITV...

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DOLBY
Movie 1990

Murder East - Murder West

This Cold War dramatic thriller tells the passionate story of...

Here Is the News
1h 10m
DOLBY
Movie 1989

Here Is the News

Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of...

Death of a Son
1h 34m
DOLBY
Movie 1989

Death of a Son

The true story of Pauline Williams, who struggled to bring...

Lace 2
3h 8m
DOLBY
Movie 1985

Lace 2

While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother,...

Biography

Colin Higgins was a British actor famous for many appearances on British television. In 1977 Higgins was cast as Wedge Antilles in Star Wars and appears in the role for one scene only. The reason for this is that Higgins was fired after a day of filming because he was having difficulty recalling his lines. He was replaced by Dennis Lawson, who went on to have great success in the role, whilst Higgins' performance went uncredited as 'Rebel Pilot'. For many years he was known by fans as 'Fake Wedge' until a retcon finally gave his character a unique name and backstory, that of Colonel Takbright.