- He appeared in the final episodes of two 1970s/1980s cult classic science fiction series: Blake's 7 (1978) and Sapphire & Steel (1979).
- On the "Special Edition" DVD commentary for the serial The Robots of Death: Part One (1977), Tom Baker spoke of his admiration for Collings and compared him favourably to Denholm Elliott, with whom Baker had worked on The Vault of Horror (1973).
- He was the father of twins Samuel Collings and Eliza Collings.
- He has two roles in common with both David Warner and Richard E. Grant. All three have played Bob Cratchit - Collings in Scrooge (1970), Warner in A Christmas Carol (1984) and Grant in A Christmas Carol (1999) - and the Doctor from Doctor Who (1963) - Collings in the Big Finish audio drama "Full Fathom Five", Warner in the Big Finish audio dramas "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Masters of War" and Grant in Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999) and Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (2003).
- He sang the haunting theme song to the TV series Midnight Is a Place (1977) in which he also played the character Julian Oakapple.
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