
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 |
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Most Rating | 1.099 |
Birthday | 1925-04-22 |
Place of Birth | Tooting, South London, England, UK |
Also Known As | Джордж Коул, George Edward Cole, |

1960

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
6.194/18
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a...
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

1954

The Belles of St. Trinian's
6.283/53
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when th...
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The Belles of St. Trinian's

1963

Cleopatra
7/757
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his g...
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Cleopatra

1970

The Vampire Lovers
6.4/197
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for...
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The Vampire Lovers

1996

Mary Reilly
5.788/319
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
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Mary Reilly

1951

Scrooge
7.416/335
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show...
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Scrooge

1971

Fright
6.1/66
Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of fr...
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Fright

1966

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
5.9/25
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

1956

The Weapon
5.9/17
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder...
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The Weapon

1963

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
7/16
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

1957

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
6.4/26
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However,...
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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

1950

Morning Departure
6.6/18
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
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Morning Departure

1951

Laughter in Paradise
6.5/30
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something whic...
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Laughter in Paradise

1959

The Bridal Path
5.5/2
Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying...
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The Bridal Path

1941

Cottage to Let
6.5/19
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfe...
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Cottage to Let

2001

Station Jim
7/1
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriende...
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Station Jim

1948

My Brother's Keeper
6.1/9
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan...
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My Brother's Keeper

1955

Quentin Durward
6/12
During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English Lord to woo a French lady on his behalf. The plan...
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Quentin Durward

1955

The Constant Husband
6.944/9
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his lif...
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The Constant Husband

1956

The Green Man
7/34
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing...
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The Green Man

2008

Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
8.3/3
"Scarecrow! Scarecrow! The soldiers of the King feared his name!" And so begins the hard-to-forget theme song to The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Walt D...
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Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

1950

Gone to Earth
6.2/32
Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack...
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Gone to Earth

1965

One Way Pendulum
5.5/2
A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing...
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One Way Pendulum

1955

A Prize of Gold
5.4/8
A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.
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A Prize of Gold

1952

Top Secret
6/1
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyon...
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Top Secret

1973

Take Me High
4.9/9
Tim (Cliff Richard) is a successful ambitious young financier working for a London Merchant bank, but even his happy-go-lucky attitude is severely jol...
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Take Me High

1953

Will Any Gentleman...?
5.6/5
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the wo...
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Will Any Gentleman...?

1952

Folly to Be Wise
6.7/10
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately...
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Folly to Be Wise

1949

The Spider and the Fly
6.786/7
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe p...
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The Spider and the Fly

1956

It's a Wonderful World
5.3/3
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of t...
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It's a Wonderful World

2007

A Class Apart
0/0
An outspoken single mum is determined her son will go to the school of her choice, and he ends up at a private school. Only then does she discover the...
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A Class Apart

1959

Don't Panic Chaps!
5.6/7
During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean. However...
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Don't Panic Chaps!

1953

Our Girl Friday
5.1/10
Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are Irish stoker Pat, prickly young Jimmy Carrol, and...
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Our Girl Friday

1954

Happy Ever After
5.2/14
The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes...
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Happy Ever After

1970

The Right Prospectus
0/0
A school story with a noticeable difference - the adults regress to children.
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The Right Prospectus

1959

Too Many Crooks
7.2/20
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Re...
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Too Many Crooks

1985

Blott on the Landscape
8.8/3
Bawdy adaption of Tom Sharpe's comic tale. A landowning MP attempts to have a motorway built through the grounds of his wife's ancestral home.
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Blott on the Landscape

1953

The Intruder
7.2/6
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. W...
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The Intruder

1970

Killing Time
0/0
Douglas Willetts is a shrew of a man in his mid-40s, barely able to communicate and renting a bedroom in a typically working-class two up-two down. On...
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Killing Time

1955

Where There's a Will
6.4/6
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face th...
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Where There's a Will

1956

The Anatomist
6/1
To acquire a fresh supply of cadavers for use in his medical school experiments, Dr. Knox turns two of his inept students into graverobbers.
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The Anatomist

1951

Lady Godiva Rides Again
5.778/9
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. Th...
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Lady Godiva Rides Again

2000

The Ghost of Greville Lodge
6/4
Teenager James Greville has lived in children's homes his whole life, so he is surprised when a Great Uncle invites him to his country manor for a hol...
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The Ghost of Greville Lodge

1986

Day To Remember
0/0
Wally is spending Christmas with his wife Hilda at the house of their daughter and son-in-law. Wally is hoping that he will miraculously regain his me...
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Day To Remember

1979

Getting in on Concorde
0/0
Corruption can be the deadliest of vices, so can Willie pay the price and survive?
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Getting in on Concorde

2007

The Dinner Party
6/2
Young couple Jackie and Leo move from North London to a suburban home in the green belt paradise of Southern England. At the birthday party of a neigh...
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The Dinner Party

1969

The Last Lonely Man
0/0
What if it became possible for the personality to pass at the moment of death into the mind of someone still alive? Then the big new problem would be,...
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The Last Lonely Man

1967

The Gentleman Caller
5.5/1
Visiting unemployed brothers Clack and Ged, social security inspector Mr. Hicks finds few reasons for sympathy. However, the tables are turned on the...
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The Gentleman Caller

1969

The Comic
0/0
The story of a comedian with a talent close to genius but with an insecurity problem.
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The Comic

1968

Sally Go Round the Moon
0/0
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'A Man of Our Times' anthology series.
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Sally Go Round the Moon

1952

Who Goes There!
5.7/3
When Miles Cornwall returns suddenly to the home he shares with his father and sister in a grace-and-favour house at St. James's Palace, he's amazed t...
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Who Goes There!

1953

The Clue of the Missing Ape
6/2
Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.
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The Clue of the Missing Ape

1944

Henry V
6.6/115
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
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Henry V

1988

Natural Causes
0/0
Comedy thriller. Walter Bryce hires the professional services of the sinister Vincent to eliminate his rich, neurotic wife, Celia. All this to achieve...
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Natural Causes

1952

The Happy Family
7.2/4
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the ped...
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The Happy Family

1951

Flesh and Blood
0/0
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various con...
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Flesh and Blood

1990

Life After Life
0/0
A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.
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Life After Life

1948

Quartet
6/14
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
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Quartet

1975

Lloyd George Knew My Father
0/0
When Lady Sheila Boothroyd hears that the planning authorities are determined to drive a road through her grounds, she announces her intention to kill...
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Lloyd George Knew My Father

1943

The Demi-Paradise
6.286/7
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking sh...
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The Demi-Paradise

1976

The Blue Bird
5.3/28
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're...
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The Blue Bird

1954

An Inspector Calls
7.1/101
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circums...
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An Inspector Calls

1970

A Room in Town
0/0
A woman discovers that her husband has rented a flat in London for his mistress, and sets out to catch him in the act
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A Room in Town

2000

The Sleeper
4/1
Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son and daughter-in-law who she discovers are conside...
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The Sleeper

1982

The Golden Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales
7/1
Story is told by George Cole and Sheila Hancock ; adapted by Milton Subotsky from the original stories by Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm...
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The Golden Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales

1945

Journey Together
6.1/5
Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
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Journey Together

1950

The Happiest Days of Your Life
6.371/35
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The s...
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The Happiest Days of Your Life

1965

The Legend of Young Dick Turpin
0/0
When a rapacious new landlord threatens to evict him, seize his horse, and leave him penniless, the young farmer Dick Turpin flees to London and reluc...
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The Legend of Young Dick Turpin

1968

Got Yourself Sorted Out at All?
0/0
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Got Yourself Sorted Out at All?

1968

Never Mind How We Got Here, Where Are We?
0/0
Rejected now by both family and friends, Max has only three weeks left in which to find a solution to his problems.
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