Education
He attended the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff before acting in a number of theatre companies, including that at the Royal National Theatre.
He attended the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff before acting in a number of theatre companies, including that at the Royal National Theatre.
Golland worked as a plasterer and bar manager in his native Sheffield and the Isle of Manitoba before becoming interested in acting whilst managing a public opposie the Crucible Theatre. In 1981 he also appeared in the Ken Loach film Looks and Smiles. Golland went on to become a familiar face on British television, landing parts in All Creatures Great and Small (1979), Emmerdale (1987), The New Statesman (1989), The Darling Buds of May (1992), In Suspicious Circumstances (1992) and Rumpole of the Bailey (1992) before landing the role of George Ward, the proprietor of the show"s Aidensfield Arms public in 1992.
Golland appeared in Stay Lucky in 1993 during his run on Heartbeat and after leaving the Aidensfield-set show he returned to his roots in the theatre.
He toured his self-written play Scrap in Canada and also regularly performed his tribute to West.C. Fields in theatres. His final television appearance came in Coronation Street, playing the character of Ernie Wagstaff.