Over the next 15 years I did theatre, television and radio work, plus a few adverts before Minder came along in the late 1970s. "Alastair tutored me about acting. No amount of publicity can dampen a good one or gloss over a bad one." Unlike his screen persona, Cole considered himself primarily a family man.

In the first, The Belles of St Trinian’s (1954), Cole (as the spiv Flash Harry) received third billing after Sim and Joyce Grenfell.

He worked consistently throughout the 1960s and 1970s in productions such as Banana Ridge, The Philanthropist and Too Good to be True. Hailed in The Daily Telegraph as “a very youthful actor with spirit and a grand sense of the occasion”, Cole reprised the same role in the film version two years later, appearing for the first time opposite Alastair Sim. "I have been very fortunate in my life – not many parents would have let their youngster go off to be an actor at such a young age. I was 69 when the show ended and sort of retired, although never officially. “Since then, I’ve appeared on Midsomer Murders, New Tricks and most recently I was on The One Show. Cole also acted opposite L… At school I loved participating in the end of term play, and if there was an end of the year revue, I would sing in that. “That job, in a play called White Horse Inn, lasted nine months and my acting career had begun. Amazingly, I got the job as understudy to the part and was on the train to Blackpool that afternoon to start work. George Cole’s career started in the 1930s, when, aged 14, he was acting on the stage. George Cole jokingly asked for whisky on deathbed reveals devastated Minder co-star Dennis Waterman Dennis spent time with friend and Arthur Daley actor George, 90, … He also appeared in several musical hits such as Front Page (1981), The Pirates of Penzance (1982) and as Captain Hook in Peter Pan (1987).After the war Cole returned to acting, appearing in a variety of mediocre films including My Brother’s Keeper (1948), The Spider and the Fly (1949) and Gone to Earth (1950). Due to start at the butcher’s on Monday morning, he answered an advertisement in The Star on Friday night that read “Boy wanted for West End show”. Cole was offered the part of Arthur Daley in Minder while making Dennis Potter’s banned play, Brimstone and Treacle.Cole became so identified in the public’s mind to the Arthur Daley character that even when he appeared away from the series – as in television commercials for the Leeds Building Society – Arthur’s pork pie hat and sheepskin coat were in evidence. Before Minder I never really knew where my next job was coming from. They also found time to have a child of their own, Merlith, who now lives at Forrigan with her own family and next door to George Cole, who remained close to Naomi Sim to the end.

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