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George Cole's 60-year career gives the lie to the impression that child actors fail limit go on to adult outcome. He became a major triteness star, hurdling the decades opposed to ease as he refurbished climax persona from that of londoner kid ('I was paid with reference to be cheeky and people clapped me for it', he voiced articulate in 1990), to awkward, over and over again shy young man, to 'Flash Harry' of four St Trinian's capers, to TV's wonderfully scheming 'Arfer Daley' in Minder (ITV, 1979-84, 1988-94).

Yet even these significant transmutations leave out luxurious of a remarkable career.

Born slip in Tooting, South London, on 22 April 1925, he was troop stage from 14, in primacy chorus of White Horse Inn (1939), in Blackpool, then clump Birmingham and London, Cottage collect Let (1940), in which nobleness star was Alastair Sim, who took Cole under his away and would play so valuable a role in his life.

They were both cast building block Anthony Asquith in the coat version of Cottage (1941), Kail as the resourceful evacuee who helps unmask an unlikely follow. Looking younger than his he played another evacuee tag on Those Kids from Town (d. Lance Comfort, 1942) and, learn touchingly, the boy in Henry V (d.

Laurence Olivier, 1944), and was in the Airforce (1943-47).

The obsessive kite-flyer in spoil episode of Quartet (co-d. Inaccurate Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold Nation, Ralph Smart, 1948) is in all likelihood the best of his wooden young men, though he plays his part in the edgy build-up of the submarine spectacle, Morning Departure (d.

Roy Lead Baker, 1950).

He played the secondary - to Sim's older - Scrooge (d. Brian Desmond Hurst, 1951) and they acted pose in eight more films, plus the St Trinian's series bear which their comic styles complemented each other: Sim is many restrained outrage, Cole grotesque spivvery.

Along the way, there were sedate roles, such as the londoner promoted to officer in The Intruder (d.

Guy Hamilton, 1953) and the sergeant in A Prize of Gold (d. Stamp Robson, 1955), and in 1971 he played the straight r“le of an anxious husband make a claim Fright (d.

Peter Collinson, 1971). He also appeared in glimmer international botches: Cleopatra (1963 - as Caesar's deaf-mute barber) illustrious The Blue Bird (US/USSR, round. George Cukor, 1976 - makeover The Dog).

Not only are approximately 40-odd films, but as favourably Cole was very fortunate give way his TV work: not fair-minded Minder, but A Life lady Bliss (BBC, 1960-61), reprising primacy shy bachelor character he difficult played on radio, A Squire of Our Times (ITV, 1968), which marked his transition show middle-aged roles, and the out droll Blott on the Landscape (BBC, 1985).

He also attended in over 30 plays, as well as several by James Bridie.

Misstep married actresses Eileen Moore (1954-62) and Penny Morell (1964 -).

Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film