George Cole
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
1960
The Belles of St Trinian's
1954
Cleopatra
1963
The Vampire Lovers
1970
Mary Reilly
1996
Scrooge
1951
Fright
1971
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
1966
The Weapon
1956
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
1963
Blue Murder at St Trinian's
1957
Morning Departure
1950
Laughter in Paradise
1951
The Bridal Path
1959
Cottage to Let
1941
Station Jim
2001
My Brother's Keeper
1948
Quentin Durward
1955
The Constant Husband
1955
The Green Man
1956
Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
2008
Gone to Earth
1950
One Way Pendulum
1965
A Prize of Gold
1955
Top Secret
1952
Take Me High
1973
Will Any Gentleman...?
1953
Folly to Be Wise
1952
The Spider and the Fly
1949
It's a Wonderful World
1956
A Class Apart
2007
Don't Panic Chaps
1959
Our Girl Friday
1953
Happy Ever After
1954
The Right Prospectus
1970
Too Many Crooks
1959
Blott on the Landscape
1985
The Intruder
1953
Killing Time
1970
Where There's a Will
1955
The Anatomist
1956
Lady Godiva Rides Again
1951
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000
Day To Remember
1986
Getting in on Concorde
1979
The Dinner Party
2007
The Last Lonely Man
1969
The Gentleman Caller
1967
Sally Go Round the Moon
1968
The Comic
1969
Who Goes There!
1952
The Clue of the Missing Ape
1953
Henry V
1944
Natural Causes
1988
The Happy Family
1952
Flesh and Blood
1951
Life After Life
1990
Quartet
1948
Lloyd George Knew My Father
1975
The Demi-Paradise
1943
The Blue Bird
1976
An Inspector Calls
1954
A Room in Town
1970
The Sleeper
2000
The Golden Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales
1982
Journey Together
1945
The Happiest Days of Your Life
1950
The Legend of Young Dick Turpin
1965
Got Yourself Sorted Out at All?
1968
Never Mind How We Got Here, Where Are We?
1968
Those Kids from Town
1942
Ginger
1990
The Sweeney
1975
Gideon's Way
1965
Root Into Europe
1992
UFO
1970
Heartbeat
1992
Minder
1979
Shadows of Fear
1970
Diamond Geezer
2005
Dad
1997
New Tricks
2004
The Bounder
1982
Comrade Dad
1984
A Life Of Bliss
1960
Quiller
1975
That's What I Call Television
2007
A Class Apart
2007
Good Friends
1995
A Man of our Times
1968
Blott on the Landscape
1985
An Independent Man
1995
Return of the Saint
1978
Bodily Harm
2002
Midsomer Murders
1997
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Don't Forget To Write!
1977
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Play for Today
1970
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Top of the Pops
1964
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Armchair Theatre
1956
Armchair Theatre
1956
The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
1964
The Ten Commandments
1971
The Informer
1966
Drama 61-67
1961
Out of the Unknown
1965
ITV Playhouse
1967