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George Cole is a Actor British born on 22 april 1925

George Cole

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Birth name George Edward Cole
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 22 april 1925
Death 5 august 2015 (at 90 years)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

George Edward Cole, OBE (22 April 1925 – 5 August 2015) was an English actor whose career spanned more than 70 years. He was best known for playing Arthur Daley in the long-running ITV comedy-drama show Minder and Flash Harry in the early St Trinian's films.

Biography

Cole was married twice, first to actress Eileen Moore (1954–1962, divorced) and then to actress Penny Morrell (1967–2015, his death). Cole had four children, two from each marriage.

He was invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He resided for over 70 years in Stoke Row, Oxfordshire. His autobiography, The World Was My Lobster, was published in 2013.

Cole died at the age of 90 on 5 August 2015 at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Berkshire, after a short illness.
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Filmography of George Cole (53 films)

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Folly to Be Wise, 1h31
Directed by Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Alastair Sim, Elizabeth Allan, Roland Culver, Edward Chapman, Martita Hunt, Colin Gordon
Roles Soldier in Brains Trust audience
Rating61% 3.053273.053273.053273.053273.05327
The Intruder, 1h24
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Crime
Actors Jack Hawkins, George Cole, Dennis Price, Michael Medwin, Hugh Williams, Duncan Lamont
Roles John Summers
Rating66% 3.3417953.3417953.3417953.3417953.341795
Ex-Colonel, now stockbroker, Wolf Merton (Jack Hawkins) returns home to find it being burgled by an armed intruder. Merton recognises the culprit, Ginger Edwards (Michael Medwin), as a former soldier who had fought under his command in a tank regiment during the Second World War. They discuss how Summers arrived at a life of crime but the burglar runs off.
Our Girl Friday, 1h28
Directed by Noel Langley
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Joan Collins, George Cole, Kenneth More, Hermione Gingold, Walter Fitzgerald, Hattie Jacques
Roles Jimmy Carrol
Rating54% 2.7121552.7121552.7121552.7121552.712155
Après une collision en mer, une riche jeune femme, Sadie Patch, se retrouve sur une île déserte en compagnie de trois hommes : Jimmy Carroll, un journaliste, le professor Gibble, un expert en civilisation, et Pat Plunkett, un membre de l'équipage. Des rivalités amoureuses se déclarent bientôt, entre Carroll et Gibble notamment. Mais après qu'ils auront été secourus par un autre navire, c'est Plunkett que Sadie va épouser, juste avant un nouveau naufrage. Sadie et Pat se retrouveront sur l'île.
The Clue of the Missing Ape, 58minutes
Directed by James Hill (réalisateur britannique)
Origin United-kingdom
Themes Children's films
Actors George Cole, Peter Copley, Bill Shine, Evelyn Roberts, John Welch (Welsh), Wilfred Walter
Roles Gobo
Rating60% 3.0053553.0053553.0053553.0053553.005355
The film centers on the adventures of Sea Cadet Jimmy Sutton, played by Roy Savage. Sutton is seen walking down an English country path, and the sound of a boy's cheerful whistling are dubbed onto the soundtrack. Soon a misfiring propeller engine is also heard and a World War II-style plane crashes in a field. Sutton heroically rescues the pilot and retrieves a portfolio of important papers as the plane erupts in flames. Two suspicious men can be seen sneaking away, trading dialogue that indicates they have sabotaged the plane.
The Happy Family, 1h26
Directed by Muriel Box
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne, Dandy Nichols, John Stratton, Shirley Mitchell
Roles Cyril
Rating65% 3.27763.27763.27763.27763.2776
The House of Lords is a grocery shop that sits on the South Bank of the river Thames close to the site of Festival Hall which is noisily under construction. It is owned by the Lord family, a husband and wife with several children. Lillian Lord runs the shop, while Henry is a British Railways train driver, who has worked on the railways for over 30 years and who is just about to retire. He is looking forward to enjoying a quiet retirement at the family shop looking after his pet hare, Winston, though his spiritualist sister in law Ada has had supernatural visions of "men in black" bringing discord.
Top Secret
Top Secret (1952)

Directed by Mario Zampi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors George Cole, Oskar Homolka, Ernest Jay, Nadia Gray, Frederick Valk, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Roles George Archibald Potts
Rating62% 3.143563.143563.143563.143563.14356
George Potts, a plumber in a top secret government research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the plans for a revolutionary atomic weapon. As George leaves for his annual holiday, the research security team embarks on a nationwide search for the hapless 'sanitary engineer.' Meanwhile, the Russians get wind of the incident and intercept George, plying him with liquor and employment promises so that he'll hand over the plans to them. All the while, George never knows what the fuss is about: he thinks that the British and Soviet authorities are interested in his new plans for a modern plumbing system.
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Laughter in Paradise, 1h33
Directed by Mario Zampi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, George Cole, Guy Middleton, Hugh Griffith, Ernest Thesiger
Roles Herbert Russell
Rating70% 3.543793.543793.543793.543793.54379
When wealthy, well-known practical joker Henry Russell (Hugh Griffith) dies, four relatives find out that they stand to inherit considerable sums ... provided that they commit acts that are completely contrary to their natures. Law-abiding Deniston Russell (Alastair Sim), a retired army officer who writes lurid novels under several fictional names, has to get himself arrested and jailed for 28 days. Difficult, snobbish Agnes Russell (Fay Compton) has to find work as a maid and keep her job for a month.
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Scrooge
Scrooge (1951)
, 1h26
Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Christmas films, Time travel films, Ghost films
Actors Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Jack Warner, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison
Roles Young Ebenezer Scrooge
Rating80% 4.045074.045074.045074.045074.04507
Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) is seen leaving the London Exchange on his way to his counting house on Christmas Eve, 1843. Scrooge tells two other men of business that he has no intention of celebrating Christmas. He refuses leniency to a debtor who owes Scrooge money. Back at his place of business, Scrooge refuses a donation to two men collecting for the poor, suggesting that prisons and workhouses are sufficient for maintaining the poor, and that those who won't go would be better off dead.
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Gone to Earth, 1h50
Directed by Michael Powell, Rouben Mamoulian, Emeric Pressburger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about foxes, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Esmond Knight, Sybil Thorndike, Edward Chapman
Roles Cousin Albert
Rating68% 3.4402153.4402153.4402153.4402153.440215
Hazel Woodus (Jennifer Jones) is a child of nature in the Shropshire countryside in 1897. She loves and understands all the wild animals more than the people around her. Whenever she has problems, she turns to the book of spells and charms left to her by her gypsy mother.
The Happiest Days of Your Life, 1h21
Directed by Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education, Films based on plays
Actors Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, John Turnbull, Guy Middleton, Joyce Grenfell, Edward Rigby
Roles Junior Assistant Caretaker at Ministry of Education (Uncredited)
Rating71% 3.5893053.5893053.5893053.5893053.589305
Set in 1949, confusion reigns when St Swithin's Girls' School is accidentally billeted at Nutbourne College: a boys' school. The two heads, Wetherby Pond (Alastair Sim) and Muriel Whitchurch (Margaret Rutherford), try to cope with the ensuing chaos, as the children and staff attempt to live in the newly cramped conditions (it being impossible to share dormitories or other facilities), and seek to prevent the children taking advantage of their new opportunities.
Morning Departure, 1h42
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Submarine films, Films based on plays
Actors John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Kenneth More, Peter Hammond, Michael Brennan
Roles ERA Marks
Rating69% 3.4890253.4890253.4890253.4890253.489025
The story is set after the end of the Second World War and concerns a British submarine, HMS Trojan, which is out on a routine exercise to test its new snorkel mast when it encounters a derelict floating magnetic mine left over from the war. The submarine dives, but sets off the mine. The mine blows the bows of the submarine off, and floods the after section through the displaced snorkel mast, instantly killing all 53 of the crew in the bows and stern section. The submarine settles to the bottom leaving twelve crew members alive amidships, who have been saved by the watertight doors which had been closed by order of the captain when he realised the imminent danger.