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| Born | April 22, 1925 Tooting, South London, England |
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| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse | Eileen Moore (1954-1962) Penny Morrell (1964-) |
| Children | Tara Toby |
George Edward Cole OBE (born April 22, 1925 in Tooting, London, England) is an English actor. Events 1500 - Portuguese Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Tooting is a suburb in the London Borough of Wandsworth in south London. South London is the southern part of London, England. The area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Events 1500 - Portuguese Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Tooting is a suburb in the London Borough of Wandsworth in south London. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works
In an interview included in the 2007 DVD release of A Christmas Carol he recounts that he was given up for adoption at the age of ten days, and adopted by Mr. and Mrs. George Cole. He grew up with a strong cockney accent that hindered his early performing career.
He began appearing in films in the early 1940s, debuting in the 1941 film Cottage to Let. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be Cottage to Let is a 1941 Spy film starring Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim and John Mills. He attributes his career to the great British stage and film actor Alastair Sim, who became his mentor. Acting career Preferring the stage, Sim made his London debut in Othello in 1930 Cole appeared in a total of 11 films with Sim, starting with Cottage to Let, and ending with the somewhat obscure 1961 independent film The Anatomist. He also acted opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in The Demi-Paradise (1943) and Olivier's film version of Henry V (1944), but his career was interrupted by his service in the Royal Air Force from 1944 to 1947. Laurence Kerr Olivier Baron The Demi-Paradise (also known as Adventure for Two) is a 1943 Comedy film made by Two Cities Films and distributed in the Henry V is a 1944 film adaptation of William Shakespeare 's play of the same name.
He became familiar to audiences in British comedy films in the 1950s. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive Cole appeared with Sim in Scrooge (as the young Scrooge) in 1951, but his best known film role was as "Flash Harry" in the St Trinian's films (two of which also star Sim). Scrooge ( 1951) released as A Christmas Carol in the US, is one of the most well-known film adaptations of Charles Flash Harry is a Fictional character from the St Trinian's movies who first appears in the 1954 The Belles of St Trinian's. St Trinian's is a fictional girls' Boarding school, the creation of British cartoonist Ronald Searle, that later became the subject of a popular
Cole later became a respected television actor. During the 1960s and 1970s, he played numerous character parts on British television, usually as a disturbed and/or pathetic villain or victim. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The TV series he appeared in included Gideon's Way ('The Firebug', 1965), Out of the Unknown ('The Last Lonely Man', 1969) and Menace ('Killing Time', 1970). Gideon's Way was a British TV crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65 based on the novels by John Creasey (as Out of the Unknown was a British Television Science fiction Anthology drama series produced by the BBC and broadcast on
His most memorable TV role was as crooked used car dealer Arthur Daley in the TV series Minder (1979-94). Minder was a British Comedy-drama about the London criminal underworld. Minder was a British Comedy-drama about the London criminal underworld. The character became synonymous with the down-at-heel side of 80s capitalism (along with Del Trotter of Only Fools and Horses). } Derek Edward Trotter (born July 12, 1948 in Deptford) more commonly known as "Del Boy", is the fictional lead character in the popular Only Fools and Horses is a British Television sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan, and made and broadcast by the BBC Cole played a similar character in late 1980s / early 1990's TV advertisements for the Leeds Permanent Building Society who was "Laughing all the way to The Leeds".
In 1995/6 he starred as businessman - councillor Freddie Patterson in An Independent Man. He also starred as Brian Hook in the BBC Comedy Dad in the late 1990s alongside Kevin McNally, who played his son, Alan Hook. Dad was a BBC1 Sitcom that ran for 13 episodes (each 30 minutes long over two series and a Christmas special Kevin McNally (born 27 April 1956) is an English actor who has worked extensively in both Film and Television.
He played Henry Root in the TV series Root Into Europe. Root Into Europe was an ITV comedy-drama written by William Donaldson and Mark Chapman, which ran for 5 episodes between May 17 and June 14
He is able to hide his London accent when playing upper-class characters, such as Sir Giles Lynchwood in the TV adaptation of Tom Sharpe's novel Blott on the Landscape. Tom Sharpe (born 30 March 1928 is an English satirical Author, born in London and educated at Lancing College and at Pembroke Blott on the Landscape is a novel written in 1975 by Tom Sharpe. Recently he was announced to play the leading role in Kevin Tate's The Story of Carl Veart, a new 6 part ITV Series. Cole recently appeared in the BBC drama A Class Apart, in which he played a grandfather who encourages his impoverished daughter keep her son on the straight and narrow by means of a public school bursary (part of the Winter/Spring 2007 season[1]), and The Dinner Party, broadcast in September 2007. The term public school has two distinct (and virtually opposite meanings depending on the location of usage in the United States, Australia and
He was married first to Eileen Moore, an actress and subsequently to Penny Morrell, in 1964, with whom he has two children.
Partial filmography
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External links
- George Cole at the Internet Movie Database
- www.britmovie.co.uk - George Cole
- Various 'Dad' links on valdefierro.com
- Article about 'Dad' on 'Life in Cartoons'
- George Cole reads Charles Dickens
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