Colin Welland and Julian Fellowes were 2 actors who won Oscars. Colin won for Chariots of Fire while Fellowes won for Gosford Park. Back in their acting days both of them appeared in episodes of cop shows that dealt with terrorism. In The Sweeney episode Faces Colin played a getaway driver for a Gang headed by a German terrorist, Colin's character gets into a punch up with Dennis Waterman's Carter. In the Dempsey and Makepeace episode Blood Money the titular duo investigations into the murder of an antique shop owner brings them into contact with a shady antiques dealer played by Fellowes, who is involved in the selling of antiques to fund terror group. The Fellowes character escapes arrest but has one of his vases broken by Dempsey.
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