George Cole
Birthday: 1925-04-22
Place of Birth: Tooting, South London, England, UK
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.
Movies
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s schoo...
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The Belles of St. Trinian's
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hoc...
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Cleopatra
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
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The Vampire Lovers
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs s...
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Mary Reilly
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde....
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Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is v...
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Fright
Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their youn...
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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden...
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The Weapon
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gu...
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen....
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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find them...
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Morning Departure
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before th...
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Laughter in Paradise
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can...
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The Bridal Path
Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortuna...
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Cottage to Let
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hosp...
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Station Jim
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes hi...
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My Brother's Keeper
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young...
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Quentin Durward
During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English...
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The Constant Husband
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With ...
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The Green Man
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a profession...
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Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
"Scarecrow! Scarecrow! The soldiers of the King feared his name!" And so begins the hard-to-forget t...
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Gone to Earth
Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in part...
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One Way Pendulum
A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while ...
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A Prize of Gold
A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orpha...
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Top Secret
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he ha...
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Take Me High
Tim (Cliff Richard) is a successful ambitious young financier working for a London Merchant bank, bu...
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Will Any Gentleman...?
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without ...
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Folly to Be Wise
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on ...
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The Spider and the Fly
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline inte...
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It's a Wonderful World
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusi...
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A Class Apart
An outspoken single mum is determined her son will go to the school of her choice, and he ends up at...
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Don't Panic Chaps!
During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemi...
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Our Girl Friday
Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are ...
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Happy Ever After
The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed...
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The Right Prospectus
A school story with a noticeable difference - the adults regress to children....
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Too Many Crooks
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Go...
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Blott on the Landscape
Bawdy adaption of Tom Sharpe's comic tale. A landowning MP attempts to have a motorway built through...
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The Intruder
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the t...
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Killing Time
Douglas Willetts is a shrew of a man in his mid-40s, barely able to communicate and renting a bedroo...
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Where There's a Will
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London ...
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The Anatomist
To acquire a fresh supply of cadavers for use in his medical school experiments, Dr. Knox turns two ...
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Lady Godiva Rides Again
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain proc...
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The Ghost of Greville Lodge
Teenager James Greville has lived in children's homes his whole life, so he is surprised when a Grea...
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Day To Remember
Wally is spending Christmas with his wife Hilda at the house of their daughter and son-in-law. Wally...
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Getting in on Concorde
Corruption can be the deadliest of vices, so can Willie pay the price and survive?...
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The Dinner Party
Young couple Jackie and Leo move from North London to a suburban home in the green belt paradise of ...
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The Last Lonely Man
What if it became possible for the personality to pass at the moment of death into the mind of someo...
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The Gentleman Caller
Visiting unemployed brothers Clack and Ged, social security inspector Mr. Hicks finds few reasons fo...
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The Comic
The story of a comedian with a talent close to genius but with an insecurity problem....
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Sally Go Round the Moon
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'A Man of Our Times' anthology series....
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Who Goes There!
When Miles Cornwall returns suddenly to the home he shares with his father and sister in a grace-and...
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The Clue of the Missing Ape
Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar....
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Henry V
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...
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Natural Causes
Comedy thriller. Walter Bryce hires the professional services of the sinister Vincent to eliminate h...
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The Happy Family
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, ...
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Flesh and Blood
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of...
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Quartet
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alie...
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Lloyd George Knew My Father
When Lady Sheila Boothroyd hears that the planning authorities are determined to drive a road throug...
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The Demi-Paradise
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the ...
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The Blue Bird
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness...
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An Inspector Calls
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known ...
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A Room in Town
A woman discovers that her husband has rented a flat in London for his mistress, and sets out to cat...
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The Sleeper
Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son...
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The Golden Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales
Story is told by George Cole and Sheila Hancock ; adapted by Milton Subotsky from the original stori...
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Journey Together
Two Englishmen train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin....
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The Happiest Days of Your Life
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to b...
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The Legend of Young Dick Turpin
When a rapacious new landlord threatens to evict him, seize his horse, and leave him penniless, the ...
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Never Mind How We Got Here, Where Are We?
Rejected now by both family and friends, Max has only three weeks left in which to find a solution t...
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Ginger
Ginger, an OAP, is now forced to sport a ginger wig to compensate for the ravages of time. Nattily k...
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