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George Cole

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.

Known For: Acting

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

Died: 2015-08-05

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1941	Cottage to Let	Ronald	67
2	1942	Those Kids from Town	Charlie	0
3	1943	The Demi-Paradise	Percy	63
4	1944	Henry V	Boy	66
5	1945	Journey Together	Curley, Bomb Aimer, Lancaster Crew	64
6	1948	My Brother's Keeper	Willie Stannard	61
7	1948	Quartet	Herbert Sunbury (segment "The Kite")	62
8	1949	The Spider and the Fly	Marc, detective	68
9	1950	Morning Departure	ERA Marks	66
10	1950	The Happiest Days of Your Life	Junior Assistant Caretaker at Ministry of Education (Uncredited)	65
11	1950	Gone to Earth	Cousin Albert	62
12	1951	Flesh and Blood	John Hannah	0
13	1951	Laughter in Paradise	Herbert Russell	65
14	1951	Lady Godiva Rides Again	Johnny West	58
15	1951	Scrooge	Young Ebenezer Scrooge	74
16	1952	The Happy Family	Cyril	72
17	1952	Who Goes There!	Arthur Crisp	57
18	1952	Top Secret	George Archibald Potts	60
19	1952	Folly to Be Wise	Soldier in Brains Trust audience	67
20	1953	Will Any Gentleman...?	Henry Sterling	56
21	1953	The Intruder	John Summers	72
22	1953	The Clue of the Missing Ape	Gobo	60
23	1953	Our Girl Friday	Jimmy Carrol	51
24	1954	An Inspector Calls	Tram Conductor	71
25	1954	Happy Ever After	Terence	52
26	1954	The Belles of St. Trinian's	Flash Harry	63
27	1955	Where There's a Will	Fred Slater	64
28	1955	The Constant Husband	Luigi Sopranelli	69
29	1955	Quentin Durward	Hayraddin	60
30	1955	A Prize of Gold	Sgt. Roger Morris	54
31	1956	The Anatomist	Dr. Walter Anderson	60
32	1956	It's a Wonderful World	Ken Miller	53
33	1956	The Weapon	Joshua Henry	59
34	1956	The Green Man	William Blake	70
35	1957	Blue Murder at St. Trinian's	"Flash" Harry	64
36	1959	Don't Panic Chaps!		56
37	1959	Too Many Crooks	Fingers	74
38	1959	The Bridal Path	Police Sgt. Bruce	55
39	1960	The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's	'Flash' Harry Cuthbert Edwards	62
40	1963	Cleopatra	Flavius	70
41	1963	Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow	Mr. Sexton Mipps / Hellspite	70
42	1965	One Way Pendulum	Defence Counsel	55
43	1965	The Legend of Young Dick Turpin	William Evans	0
44	1966	The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery	'Flash' Harry	59
45	1967	The Gentleman Caller	Mr. Hicks	55
46	1968	Sally Go Round the Moon	Max Osborne	0
47	1968	Got Yourself Sorted Out at All?	Max Osborne	0
48	1968	Never Mind How We Got Here, Where Are We?	Max Osborne	0
49	1969	The Last Lonely Man	James Hale	0
50	1969	The Comic	Tod	0
51	1970	The Right Prospectus	Mr. Newbold	0
52	1970	A Room in Town	Edwin	0
53	1970	The Vampire Lovers	Roger Morton	64
54	1970	Killing Time		0
55	1971	Fright	Jim	60
56	1973	Take Me High	Bert Jackson	46
57	1975	Lloyd George Knew My Father	Hubert Boothroyd MP	0
58	1976	The Blue Bird	Tylo	53
59	1979	Getting in on Concorde	Willie	0
60	1982	The Golden Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales	narrorator	70
61	1985	Blott on the Landscape		88
62	1986	Day To Remember	Wally	0
63	1988	Natural Causes	Vincent	0
64	1990	Life After Life	Eric Burt	0
65	1996	Mary Reilly	Mr. Poole	58
66	2000	The Ghost of Greville Lodge		60
67	2000	The Sleeper	George	40
68	2001	Station Jim	Stationmaster Pope	70
69	2007	A Class Apart	George - Candy's grandad	0
70	2007	The Dinner Party	George	60
71	2008	Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh	Mr. Sexton Mipps / Hellspite	83

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Mr. Mipps / Hellspite	78
2	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	William Evans	78
3	1956	Armchair Theatre		58
4	1956	Armchair Theatre	Edwin	58
5	1960	A Life Of Bliss		0
6	1964	Top of the Pops	Arthur Daley	66
7	1964	The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh	Mr. Mipps	0
8	1965	Gideon's Way	Bishop	68
9	1965	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Caramel	38
10	1965	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Paul Bishop	38
11	1966	The Informer	Baxter	0
12	1968	A Man of our Times		50
13	1970	Shadows of Fear	Gordon	60
14	1970	UFO	Paul Roper	76
15	1970	Play for Today	Mr. Newbold	63
16	1971	The Ten Commandments	Peter	0
17	1975	The Sweeney	Dennis Longfield	77
18	1975	Quiller	Mays	0
19	1977	Don't Forget To Write!	Gordon Maple	60
20	1978	Return of the Saint	Fred	70
21	1979	Minder	Arthur Daley	68
22	1982	The Bounder	Trevor Mountjoy	63
23	1984	Comrade Dad		75
24	1985	Blott on the Landscape		75
25	1992	Heartbeat	Albert Hallows	71
26	1992	Root Into Europe		60
27	1995	Good Friends		0
28	1995	An Independent Man		0
29	1997	Midsomer Murders	Lionel Hicks	75
30	1997	Dad	Brian Hook	65
31	2002	Bodily Harm	Sidney Greenfield	70
32	2004	New Tricks	Sir Edward Chambers	74
33	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Laurence Raeburn	77
34	2005	Diamond Geezer		70
35	2007	A Class Apart	George	40
36	2007	That's What I Call Television		0