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George Edward Cole, OBE (22 April 1925 – 5 August 2015) was an English actor whose career spanned 75 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.
Actor: Quentin Durward. George Cole OBE was a veteran British film, television and stage actor whose impressive career spanned over 60 years. For many, he will perhaps be best remembered for playing one of the most endearing characters of recent times on British television, "Arthur Daley", the shifty but very likable "business man" in the hit ...
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Actor: Quentin Durward. George Cole OBE was a veteran British film, television and stage actor whose impressive career spanned over 60 years. For many, he will perhaps be best remembered for playing one of the most endearing characters of recent times on British television, "Arthur Daley", the shifty but very likable "business man" in the hit ...
- April 22, 1925
- August 5, 2015
Aug 6, 2015 · Actor George Cole, who played Arthur Daley in TV's Minder and Flash Harry in St Trinian's films, died in 2015. He was a comic genius and a genuine gentleman, according to his co-stars and fans.
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Aug 7, 2015 · George Cole, a British actor who as the young Scrooge foreshadowed Alastair Sim’s aging, coldhearted moneylender in a celebrated film version of “A Christmas Carol,” and who later developed a...
Aug 6, 2015 · PA. He was appointed an OBE in 1992, joking at the time that it might have stood for an "Old British Entrepreneur" In 1997, he appeared as Brian Hook, alongside Kevin McNally, in the BBC comedy...
Aug 6, 2015 · 6 August 2015. George Cole was a veteran of more than 60 films in a career that spanned eight decades. However his role as used-car salesman Arthur Daley, in the long-running TV series Minder,...
