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.

Filmography

• 2008Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh — Mr. Sexton Mipps / Hellspite (archive footage)
• 2007A Class Apart — George - Candy's grandad
• A Class Apart — George
• 2007The Dinner Party — George
• Diamond Geezer
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Laurence Raeburn
• New Tricks — Sir Edward Chambers
• Bodily Harm — Sidney Greenfield
• 2001Station Jim — Stationmaster Pope
• 2000The Ghost of Greville Lodge — Great Uncle
• 2000The Sleeper — George
• Dad — Brian Hook
• Midsomer Murders — Lionel Hicks
• 1996Mary Reilly — Mr. Poole
• An Independent Man — Freddie Patterson
• Good Friends
• Heartbeat — Albert Hallows
• Root Into Europe
• 1990Ginger — Ginger
• 1990Life After Life — Eric Burt
• Single Voices — Ginger
• 1988Natural Causes — Vincent
• 1986Day To Remember — Wally
• 1985Blott on the Landscape
• Blott on the Landscape — Sir Giles Lynchwood
• Comrade Dad
• The Bounder — Trevor Mountjoy
• 1982The Golden Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales — narrorator
• 1979Getting in on Concorde — Willie
• Minder — Arthur Daley
• Return of the Saint — Fred
• Don't Forget to Write! — Gordon Maple
• 1976The Blue Bird — Tylo
• 1975Lloyd George Knew My Father — Hubert Boothroyd MP
• Quiller — Mays
• The Sweeney — Dennis Longfield
• Affairs of the Heart — Mr Prodmore
• Dial M for Murder — Pearce
• Village Hall — Ernest Grove
• Away from It All — Leonard
• 1973Take Me High — Bert Jackson
• 1971Fright — Jim
• The Ten Commandments — Peter
• 1970A Room in Town — Edwin
• 1970Killing Time
• Menace — Douglas Willet
• Play for Today — Mr. Newbold
• Shadows of Fear — Gordon
• 1970The Right Prospectus — Mr. Newbold
• 1970The Vampire Lovers — Roger Morton
• UFO — Paul Roper
• 1969The Comic — Tod
• 1969The Last Lonely Man — James Hale
• A Man of our Times — Max Osborne
• 1968Got Yourself Sorted Out at All? — Max Osborne
• 1968Never Mind How We Got Here, Where Are We? — Max Osborne
• 1968Sally Go Round the Moon — Max Osborne
• The Root of All Evil? — Syd Swope, Gordon Maple
• The Sex Game — Frank Healey
• Half Hour Story — Mr. Hinks, Cyril
• ITV Playhouse — David Carter, Willie
• 1967The Gentleman Caller — Mr. Hicks
• 1966The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery — 'Flash' Harry
• The Informer — Baxter
• Blackmail — Len Grantham
• Gideon's Way — Bishop
• 1965One Way Pendulum — Defence Counsel
• Out of the Unknown — James Hale
• 1965The Legend of Young Dick Turpin — William Evans
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Paul Bishop, Caramel
• The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh — Mr. Mipps
• Top of the Pops — Arthur Daley
• 1963Cleopatra — Flavius
• 1963Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow — Mr. Sexton Mipps / Hellspite
• Drama 61-67 — Pinedus
• A Life Of Bliss
• 1960The Pure Hell of St Trinian's — 'Flash' Harry Cuthbert Edwards
• 1959Don't Panic Chaps
• 1959The Bridal Path — Police Sgt. Bruce
• 1959Too Many Crooks — Fingers
• 1957Blue Murder at St. Trinian's — "Flash" Harry
• Armchair Theatre — Edwin
• 1956It's a Wonderful World — Ken Miller
• 1956The Anatomist — Dr. Walter Anderson
• 1956The Green Man — William Blake
• 1956The Weapon — Joshua Henry
• 1955A Prize of Gold — Sgt. Roger Morris
• 1955Quentin Durward — Hayraddin
• 1955The Constant Husband — Luigi Sopranelli
• 1955Where There's a Will — Fred Slater
• 1954An Inspector Calls — Tram Conductor
• 1954Happy Ever After — Terence
• 1954The Belles of St Trinian's — Flash Harry
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Mr. Mipps / Hellspite, William Evans
• 1953Our Girl Friday — Jimmy Carrol
• 1953The Clue of the Missing Ape — Gobo
• 1953The Intruder — John Summers
• 1953Will Any Gentleman...? — Henry Sterling
• 1952Folly to Be Wise — Soldier in Brains Trust audience
• 1952The Happy Family — Cyril
• 1952Top Secret — George Archibald Potts
• 1952Who Goes There! — Arthur Crisp
• 1951Flesh and Blood — John Hannah
• 1951Lady Godiva Rides Again — Johnny West
• 1951Laughter in Paradise — Herbert Russell
• 1951Scrooge — Young Ebenezer Scrooge
• 1950Gone to Earth — Cousin Albert
• 1950Morning Departure — ERA Marks
• 1950The Happiest Days of Your Life — Junior Assistant Caretaker at Ministry of Education (Uncredited)
• 1949The Spider and the Fly — Marc, detective
• 1948My Brother's Keeper — Willie Stannard
• 1948Quartet — Herbert Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
• 1945Journey Together — Curley, Bomb Aimer, Lancaster Crew
• 1944Henry V — Boy
• 1943The Demi-Paradise — Percy
• 1942Those Kids from Town — Charlie
• 1941Cottage to Let — Ronald

Appearances as themselves (1)

• That's What I Call Television — Self