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George Cole: Son
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George Cole plays the archetypal dad of the title, blissfully unaware of how easily he can drive his son, Alan, to distraction. Alan, in turn, desperately wants to communicate with his own son,... more
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Cole's Catholic affiliations do not seem to have been the sole determinant of his political actions: while he admired B. A. Santamaria's world view, he opposed the National Civic Council's attempt to take over the D.L.P. His attitude to foreign affairs led him to support British atomic-bomb testing in Australia and the Vietnam War. In domestic affairs he believed in European immigration, the importance of the family as a unit, universal home ownership, and in an Australia free from social strife and committed to 'a fair go' for all. Late in 1964 he collapsed in parliament with appendicitis and was in poor health thereafter. Having lost the Senate election that year, he unsuccessfully endeavoured to maintain the Tasmanian branch of the D.L.P. Cole died of chronic renal failure on 23 January 1969 at Latrobe and was buried in Mersey Vale Memorial Park cemetery, Devonport; his wife, three sons and two daughters survived him.
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That one, Cole picked up in a conversation with his son and, after he mentioned it to co-star Dennis Waterman, turned up in a Leon Griffiths script. A couple of years later, the writer came up to Cole and said: "I believe I owe you 12 quid for a contribution . . . and, you know, I thought it was the best line I had ever written!"
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