George Cole
Actor
- My Brother's Keeper (1948)
- Dir. Alfred Roome
Feat. Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, David Tomlinson…
- Rickety chase film from Gainsborough Pictures with two prisoners chained together making a dash for freedom.
- Belles of St. Trinian's, The (1954)
- Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole…
- Classic pre–CARRY ON hi–jinks set in a seedy girl's school and based on Ronald Searle's cartoon series. Alastair Sim (in drag) plays…
- Green Man, The / School for Scoundrels (1957-1960)
- Dir. Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Feat. Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas…
- A double feature of comedies starring Alastair Sim.
The Green Man (1957) Dir. Basil Dearden – One of Sim's best films, playing an apparently…
- Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)
- Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Alastair Sim…
- Particularly raucous installment of the popular naughty schoolgirl series; this time their behaviour gets the headmistress thrown in jail and the…
- Too Many Crooks (1959)
- Dir. Mario Zampi
Feat. Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Sid James…
- Four incompetent, would–be criminals make a meal of a kidnapping–ransom plot in this farcical crime caper from the Rank Organisation.
- Pure Hell of St Trinian's / Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1960-1966)
- Dir. Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Feat. George Cole, Cecil Parker, Joyce Grenfell…
- A double feature of later 'St Trinians' comedies derived from Ronald Searle's cartoons (though without mainstay Alistair Sim).
Pure Hell of St…
- Shadows of Fear (TV Series) (1970)
- Feat. Sheila Hancock, Ronald Hines, Edward Fox…
- Featuring some of Britain's most renowned stage and TV performers, this anthology series brings together eight plays with a 'chilling Hitchcockian…
- Minder (TV Series) (1979-1994)
- Feat. George Cole, Dennis Waterman
- Long–running British drama set around the shady activities of Arthur Daley (Cole) and his beleaguered 'minder'. Most entertaining for its…
- Bounder, The (TV Series) (1982)
- Dir. Vernon Lawrence
Feat. Peter Bowles, George Cole, Isla Blair
- British series written by Eric Chappell (RISING DAMP) and starring Peter Bowles (TO THE MANOR BORN) in which a lovable rogue causes havoc in the…
- Blott on the Landscape (TV Mini-Series) (1985)
- Feat. David Suchet, George Cole, Geraldine James…
- Cheeky, farcical BBC comedy is one of the better adaptations of Tom Sharpe's satirical works. David Suchet nails the defiant gardener Blott who,…
- Natural Causes (1988)
- Dir. Vernon Lawrence
Feat. George Cole, Prunella Scales
- A farcical comedy of infidelity and spousal skulduggery. George Cole plays a professional 'disposer' who is hired to fabricate the suicide of a…
- Dad (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. George Cole, Kevin McNally
- A creaky generation–gap sitcom centred on the familial conflict between a stuffy patriarch (Cole), his son (McNally), and his grandson.…
- Station Jim (2001)
- Feat. George Cole, Charlie Creed-Miles, Laura Fraser
- Old–fashioned family frolic set in Victorian England that especially entertains through the wily antics of a Jack Russell terrier, and its…