George Cole
Known for: Acting
Born: April 22, 1925
Died: August 5, 2015
Place of birth: Tooting, South London, England, UK
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.
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Filmography
72 movies · 45 TV shows, newest first
8.3
Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
2008
6.0
The Dinner Party
2007NR
That's What I Call Television
2007
NR
A Class Apart
2007
4.0
A Class Apart
2007
8.5
Diamond Geezer
2005
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
7.3
New Tricks
2004
5.3
Bodily Harm
2002
7.5
Station Jim
2001
6.5
The Sleeper
2000
7.0
The Ghost of Greville Lodge
2000
7.0
Dad
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
5.8
Mary Reilly
1996NR
An Independent Man
1995NR
Good Friends
19956.5
Root Into Europe
1992
7.2
Heartbeat
1992
NR
Life After Life
1990
NR
Ginger
19907.0
Single Voices
1990
8.0
Natural Causes
1988NR
Day To Remember
1986
8.4
Blott on the Landscape
1985
7.5
Blott on the Landscape
1985
7.8
Comrade Dad
1984
7.0
The Bounder
1982
7.0
The Golden Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales
1982
7.1
Minder
1979NR
Getting in on Concorde
1979
7.0
Return of the Saint
1978
6.2
Don't Forget to Write!
1977
5.5
The Blue Bird
1976
10.0
Quiller
19759.0
Lloyd George Knew My Father
1975
8.1
The Sweeney
1975
7.0
Affairs of the Heart
1974NR
Dial M for Murder
1974
4.8
Take Me High
1973NR
Away from It All
1973
6.0
Fright
1971NR
The Ten Commandments
1971
NR
Killing Time
1970
6.6
Play for Today
1970
6.4
The Vampire Lovers
1970NR
Menace
1970
7.8
UFO
1970
10.0
A Room in Town
1970
6.7
Shadows of Fear
1970
7.0
The Right Prospectus
1970NR
The Comic
1969
8.0
The Last Lonely Man
1969NR
The Sex Game
1968NR
The Root of All Evil?
1968NR
Never Mind How We Got Here, Where Are We?
1968NR
Got Yourself Sorted Out at All?
1968NR
Sally Go Round the Moon
19685.0
A Man of our Times
1968
7.0
ITV Playhouse
1967
5.5
The Gentleman Caller
1967
7.5
Half Hour Story
1967
NR
The Informer
1966
6.2
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
1966
4.3
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
7.1
Out of the Unknown
19657.0
Blackmail
1965
7.0
Gideon's Way
1965
NR
The Legend of Young Dick Turpin
1965
6.0
One Way Pendulum
1965
NR
The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
1964
6.6
Top of the Pops
1964
6.9
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
1963
7.1
Cleopatra
1963NR
Drama 61-67
1961
6.5
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
1960NR
A Life Of Bliss
1960
5.2
Don't Panic Chaps
1959
6.0
The Bridal Path
1959
7.4
Too Many Crooks
1959
6.8
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
1957
7.0
The Green Man
1956
6.1
The Weapon
1956
5.8
It's a Wonderful World
1956
6.0
Armchair Theatre
1956
6.3
The Anatomist
1956
5.7
A Prize of Gold
1955
5.8
Quentin Durward
1955
6.9
The Constant Husband
1955
6.9
Where There's a Will
1955
7.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
6.4
The Belles of St Trinian's
1954
5.5
Happy Ever After
1954
7.2
An Inspector Calls
1954
5.3
Our Girl Friday
1953
7.3
The Clue of the Missing Ape
1953
7.6
The Intruder
1953
6.3
Will Any Gentleman...?
1953
6.7
Folly to Be Wise
1952
8.0
Top Secret
1952
6.0
Who Goes There!
1952
7.8
The Happy Family
1952
7.4
Scrooge
1951
5.9
Lady Godiva Rides Again
1951
6.5
Laughter in Paradise
1951
7.0
Flesh and Blood
1951
6.2
Gone to Earth
1950
6.7
The Happiest Days of Your Life
1950
6.9
Morning Departure
1950
6.9
The Spider and the Fly
1949
6.3
Quartet
1948
6.3
My Brother's Keeper
1948
6.6
Journey Together
1945
6.7
Henry V
1944
6.6
The Demi-Paradise
194310.0
Those Kids from Town
1942
6.7
Cottage to Let
1941