George Cole

Born: 1925-04-22, Tooting, South London, England, UK

Died: 2015-08-05

Biography

George Edward Cole, OBE (22 April 1925 - 5 August 2015) was an English film and television actor with a career which ran from the 1940s to the first decade of the twenty first century. Best known in the role of Arthur Daley in the long-running ITV hit drama show 'Minder', Cole's career began in the role of the young evacuee in the wartime thriller 'Cottage to Let', alongside long-time friend, Alastair Sim, and went onto to encompass over 40 movies, including the popular St Trinian's films, and a host of television roles.

Filmography

• Midsomer Murders (1997)
• Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
• Heartbeat (1992)
• Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
• Gideon's Way (1965)
• UFO (1970)
• Out of the Unknown (1965)
• Return of the Saint (1978)
• Cleopatra (1963)
• Affairs of the Heart (1974)
• Comrade Dad (1984)
• Scrooge (1951)
• Mary Reilly (1996)
• Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963)
• The Blue Bird (1976)
• The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944)
• Blott on the Landscape (1985)
• Flesh and Blood (1951)
• Gone to Earth (1950)
• Diamond Geezer (2005)
• The Green Man (1956)
• The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
• Laughter in Paradise (1951)
• The Belles of St Trinian's (1954)
• Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)
• The Spider and the Fly (1949)
• The Constant Husband (1955)
• The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960)
• The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
• The Bridal Path (1959)