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George Cole
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George Cole was an attorney and a land agent with offices at 243 Main Street and at 610 Main Street in Dallas. He was politically ambitious. After being elected from the newly created 8th Ward as Alderman in 1889, he was re-elected in 1890. He was ... elected by the 8th Ward to fill a vacancy when P.P. Holland resigned in 1892. After his mother died, he sold his share of her estate to his father and one of his brothers using the proceeds to finance an unsuccessful campaign for the office of Mayor of Dallas.
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"George Cole is a welcome addition to the Central Basin Board of Directors," stated Robert Apodaca, President of the Central Basin Board of Directors. "He is an established community leader in Division III and has the experience to begin working immediately on the water-related issues that affect the southeast Los Angeles community."
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From All Movie Guide: Trained for a stage career at the Morden Council School, 14-year-old George Cole made his London stage debut in the 1939 production White Horse Inn. Cole ascended to juvenile stardom as a young evacuee in 1940's Cottage to Let, repeating the role in the 1941 film version. As an adult, Cole specialized in light, semicomic characterizations on both stage and screen. His most cherished movie roles include the mother-dominated protagonist in the "Kite" segment of Quartet (1948) and shifty salesman Flash Harry in the first two St. Trinians farces of the 1950s. He entered the household-word category as a klutzy con man in the British TV series Minder, which ran from 1979 to 1984. George Cole's other weekly TV credits include Don't Forget to Write (1977-1979), The Bounder (1982-1988), Heggerty Haggerty (1984-1985), Comrade Dad (1986), and Root Into Europe (1992).
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George Cole, 90, passed away at his home in Shelby last Friday. He was a life-long resident of Lake county and was one of the oldest residents of the south end. He was born on a farm in southern Lake county on Oct. 2, 1852, and had been a resident of Shelby the past 50 years.
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It is... as the ever-likable if sometimes unscrupulous Arthur Daley that George Cole, an Officer of the British Empire, is best known. Such is his identification with the part that the actor reports that he frequently has trouble getting people to accept his cheques, fearing that they will not be honoured by the banks because of his on-screen reputation. The extensive use of cockney rhyming slang by Daley in the 70-odd episodes that were made of Minder is also said, incidentally, to have done much to keep this linguistic oddity from extinction.
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Born in London, Cole was first seen as a teenage actor, having answered an advert in a paper for a child player in a West End musical, and getting the job of understudy for the part. His first film, Cottage to Let, made when he was not quite 16, brought him to the attention of Alastair Sim, who guided him in his early career. The two men made 11 films together and became lifelong friends. He was in the Royal Air Force from 1944 to 1947 but, now able to switch the London accent on and off at the drop of a lopsided smile, soon took up the threads of his career again after the war.
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