George Cole RIP

[poliphilo]

It's not always- or even usually- the "great" actors who do work that endures. Did Richard Burton (to pick an actor of the same generation who is generally acknowledged to be "great") create any character who is likely to live as long in the memory and affection of the public as George Cole's Arthur Daley? 

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[setsuled.livejournal.com]

And I haven't seen Minder. I already thought Cole's career had remarkable scope going from remarkable child actor to an adult comic actor who's brilliant in several films, and now I see people identify him for being in a show that started airing nearly ten years after the newest movie I've seen him in which was a Hammer horror film of all things. That's an amazing career.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

He did a lot of TV. I remember a blackish comedy that everyone else appears to have forgotten called Don't Forget to Write- in which he and Francis Matthews were rival playwrights. I liked it a lot.