George ColeFilmography

Station Jim

Actors: Thomas Sangster, George Cole, Charlie Creed-Miles, Frank Finlay, Laura Fraser

Synopsis: After from escaping the clutches of his cruel master and making his way to a remote country railway station, a performing dog in Victorian England becomes a mascot for the local orphanage in this family friendly tale starring George Cole and Thomas Sangster. When the lonely but lovable pooch Read More

Mary Reilly

Actors: Linda Bassett, Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, Glenn Close, George Cole, Kathy Staff

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Valerie Martin, this gothic suspense story offers a fresh perspective on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror tale Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by presenting the material from a different viewpoint -- that of Mary Reilly (Julia Roberts), an Irish servant girl who has come to Read More

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Minder on the Orient Express

Deadline Auto Theft

Synopsis: Director H. B. Halicki affords himself the lead in Deadline Auto Theft, playing a lover of fast cars and fast women, in that order. In search of new thrills, he gets involved with ring of thieves. There follows the usual film-length chase, with Halicki running from the law and the crooks. Veterans Read More

Double Nickels

Actors: Jack Vacek, Ed Abrams, Patrice Schubert, George Cole, Heidi Schubert

Synopsis: In this car-chase filled actioner, two highway patrolmen moonlight as auto-repossessors only to discover that they have been duped into stealing cars. High-speed mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Blue Bird

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner, Sesiliya Tayson, Cicely Tyson, Robert Morley

Synopsis: The first official co-production between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Blue Bird was the third screen adaptation of the children's story by Maurice Maeterlinck about a pair of children, Tyltyl (Todd Lookinland) and Mytyl (Patsy Kensit), who leave home to search for the Blue Bird of Read More

Gone in 60 Seconds

Actors: Christopher J.C. Agajanian, J.C.Sr. Agajanian, Gary Bettenhausen, Billy Englehart, Jonathan E. Fricke, Markos Kotsikos, Hal McClain

Synopsis: Maindrian Pace (H.B. Halicki) is a master car thief who heads an elaborate organization of professionals. Using an insurance investigation company as a front, Pace and his associates buy junked cars from accident scenes, steal new autos of the same model and color, then switch the serial numbers Read More

Take Me High

Synopsis: In this musical, a restaurant tries to establish itself by advertising a new hamburger. The owner is helped out by an amiable bank manager. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fright

Actors: Tara Collinson

Synopsis: In this violent, grim thriller, a baby-sitter's routine job turns out to be anything but when she and her young charge are terrorized by an escaped mental patient who bursts in and holds them hostage. He claims to be the three-year-old boy's father and has come to murder his ex-wife. Meanwhile to Read More

The Vampire Lovers

Actors: Ingrid Pitt, George Cole, Kate O'Mara, Madeline Smith, Peter Cushing, Ferdy [Ferdinand] Mayne, Dawn Addams

Synopsis: This sexy horror story from Britain's Hammer Films finds Ingrid Pitt playing three roles, the most notable being a lesbian vampire who will resort to biting a man only when it is absolutely necessary. A doctor and a manservant are victims, but only after she has exhausted all attempts to sink her Read More

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

Actors: Frankie Howerd, Reg Varney, Richard Wattis, Stratford Johns, Desmond Walter-Ellis, Cyril Chamberlain, Eric Barker, Dora Bryan, Arthur Mullard

Synopsis: Cartoonist Ronald Searle's delightfully diabolical private-school girls are back in action in The Great St. Trinian's Bank Robbery. Comedian Frankie Howerd plays the head of a train-robbery gang who cleverly hides the loot from their biggest haul (presumably the infamous "Great Train Robbery" of Read More

The Legend of Young Dick Turpin

Synopsis: A farmer turns to highway robbery because of the greed of the people around him. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

One Way Pendulum

Actors: Eric Sykes, George Cole, Julia Foster, Jonathan Miller, Alison Leggatt, Peggy Mount

Synopsis: This farcical British comedy follows the eccentric misadventures of a family who have their own rather unusual way of doing things. Mr. Groomkirby (Eric Sykes) is redecorating his living room to resemble the courtrooms at Old Bailey, with a mind toward staging mock trials for fun. His wife, Mrs. Read More

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: This Disney drama, originally broadcast as a three-part TV episode, tells the story of a vicar's double life. Outwardly, he is the model of upstanding citizenship and loyalty to an oppressive British government. But he is also a notorious smuggler who uses his ill-gotten gains to benefit his Read More

Cleopatra

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Martin Landau

Synopsis: In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and, ultimately, an epic flop that nearly dragged 20th Century Fox down the Nile along with Cleopatra's barge. Handsomely mounted by Joseph L. Mankiewicz Read More

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

Actors: Cecil Parker, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Thorley Walters, Irene Handl, Eric Barker

Synopsis: One in the series of St. Trinian's off-beat, irreverent comedies that began in 1953 and continued strong through the '60s, this farce by Frank Launder features the usual bevy of comely young women who attend the school. This time around, the femmes terribles have just burnt down the school and Read More

The Anatomist

Synopsis: In this darkly comic chiller, a surgeon suggest that his students steal corpses to use in their experiments. Unfortunately, they aren't very good at purloining the dead and resort to murder instead. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bridal Path

Actors: Bill Travers, Alex Mackenzie, Eric Woodburn, Jack Lambert, John Rae

Synopsis: The Bridal Path is standard comedy fare about a young man, Ewan McEwan (Bill Travers) sent out from his island home to go bride-hunting. The introverted, taciturn Ewan is reaching marriageable age just when the island's elders come up with a new decree. They have decided that there is too much Read More

Don't Panic Chaps!

Actors: Dennis Price, George Cole, Thorley Walters, Harry Fowler, Nadja Regin

Synopsis: Don't Panic Chaps! is one of the least distinguished films in a run of 1950s British comedies set during World War II. This time around, four subpar Brit soldiers are dropped off on an island in the Adriatic Sea, not far from Sicily, to establish a base for military observation. After some time Read More

Too Many Crooks

Actors: George Cole, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Bresslaw, Sidney James

Synopsis: An uneven but at times hilarious slapstick comedy, Too Many Crooks features an inept gang of four would-be criminals who manage to botch every job they plan. After a few dismal failures they try to rob the wealthy, philandering Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) and fail again. Unwilling to let go of a Read More

The Weapon

Actors: Steve Cochran, Lizabeth Scott, Herbert Marshall, Nicole Maurey, Jon Whiteley

Synopsis: The Weapon is a loose grouping of elements first seen in the 1951 British melodrama The Yellow Balloon. Jon Whitely plays a young London boy who finds a loaded gun in a blitzed-out building. He fires, accidentally shooting a playmate. Believing he's killed his friend, the boy runs away--leading to Read More

The Green Man

Actors: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Jill Adams, Avril Angers, Raymond Huntley

Synopsis: Alistair Sim plays a mild, innocuous little watchmaker who spends his off-hours as a professional assassin. His present target is windbag cabinet member Raymond Huntley. After various misfire attempts, Sim plants a bomb in a small radio and waits for the tube to warm up--but the authorities by now Read More

It's a Wonderful World

Actors: Terence Morgan, George Cole, Kathleen Harrison, Ted Heath, James Hayter

Synopsis: No relation to the 1939 Claudette Colbert-James Stewart comedy of the same name, It's a Wonderful World is essentially a vehicle for British-based bandleader Ted Heath. The thinnish plot is set in motion by would-be songwriters Terence Morgan and George Cole, who manage to sell a tune by claiming Read More

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

Actors: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Lionel Jeffries, Alastair Sim, Lisa Gastoni, Sabrina

Synopsis: Writer/artist Roland Searle's diabolical "belles" of St. Trinian's Girls School return in this raucous British comedy. Because the girls cannot behave themselves, their headmistress (Alastair Sim in drag!) has been thrown in jail, and the school is surrounded by police and army troops. The Read More

Quentin Durward

Actors: Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley, George Cole, Alec Clunes

Synopsis: Sir Walter Scott's medieval take on the "John Alden" story formed the basis of Quentin Durward. Robert Taylor dons armor in the title role, playing the son of an aging Scottish nobleman. He has been dispatched to propose to a high-born Frenchwoman (Kay Kendall) on his uncle's behalf, but one look Read More

A Prize of Gold

Actors: Richard Widmark, Mai Zetterling, Nigel Patrick, George Cole, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis: A U.S. military officer is motivated by love and compassion to begin a life of crime in this action adventure story. Sgt. Joe Lawrence (Richard Widmark) is an American Army officer who, while stationed in Berlin shortly after the end of WWII, falls in love with Maria (Mai Zetterling), a refugee Read More

The Constant Husband

Actors: Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker, Nicole Maurey

Synopsis: Rex Harrison is The Constant Husband in this delightful British comedy. It all begins when amnesia victim Charles Hathaway (Harrison) tries to reconstruct his past with the aid of psychiatrist Llewellyn (Cecil Parker). Our hero would have been better off had his memory remained lost: Llewellyn Read More

Where There's a Will

Synopsis: In this corny British comedy, a Cockney family inherits a rundown Devon farm. Not everyone is pleased by the prospect of leaving the city, but the father insists and off they go. With the help of a savvy housekeeper, the family puts the ramshackle farm in order. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tonight's the Night

Actors: David Niven, A.E. Matthews, Noelle Middleton, Robert Urquhart

Synopsis: David Niven plays the new squire in a small Irish community. As snooty and restrictive as the old squire was warmhearted and generous, Niven quickly earns the animosity of the locals. Eventually they draw lots for the privilege of bumping Niven off. Before the cad is humanized by the love of Yvonne DeCarlo Read More

The Intruder

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Hugh Williams, Michael Medwin, George Cole, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Jack Hawkins plays a former British army officer who is surprised in his home one evening by a burglar. His surprise is compounded when the intruder turns out to be one of the men from his World War II army unit. With the straight-arrow diligence of a wartime commander, Hawkins delves into the Read More

The Clue of the Missing Ape

Synopsis: This adventure, targeted for children, follows the exploits of two children on the Rock of Gibraltar who save the island's ape population and British naval ships from saboteurs. One of the kids is a sea cadet whose visit to the island is his reward for rescuing a pilot from a burning plane. The Read More

The Adventures of Sadie

Actors: Joan Collins, George Cole, Kenneth More, Robertson Hare, Hermione Gingold

Synopsis: Sadie (Joan Collins) is marooned on a desert island. Stranded along with Sadie are three men; no, not Gilligan, the Skipper and the Professor, but instead Kenneth More, George Cole and Robertson Hare. The two least likely suitors (Cole and Hare) actively pursue Sadie, while the one she's truly Read More

Folly to Be Wise

Actors: Alastair Sim, Roland Culver, Elizabeth Allan, Martita Hunt, Miles Malleson

Synopsis: This low-key Launder-Gilliat production was inspired by a play by James Bridie. Alastair Sim carries the ball as Captain Paris, an army chaplain who endeavors to organize a camp show for the troops. Practically everyone with whom the Captain comes in contact is an "expert" on the sort of Read More

The Belles of St. Trinian's

Actors: Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Betty Ann Davies

Synopsis: Belles of St. Trinian's was the first of several British comedies inspired by the fear-inspiring girl's school created by cartoonist Ronald Searle. The girls of St. Trinian's aim their deviltry at a gang of crooks who plan to steal a famous race horse. Alastair Sim wraps up the proceedings with Read More

The Passionate Sentry

Actors: A.E. Matthews, Valerie Hobson, Nigel Patrick, Anthony Bushell, George Cole

Synopsis: Also known as Who Goes There?, The Passionate Sentry is a frothy British comedy distinguished by its flippant dialogue exchanges. Peggy Cummins plays a frivolous young woman who becomes enamored of a dour Buckingham Palace guard (Nigel Patrick). While on duty, the guard is not permitted to show Read More

Will Any Gentleman?

Actors: George Cole, Veronica Hurst, Jon Pertwee, James Hayter, Heather Thatcher

Synopsis: Based on the stage farce by Vernon Sylvanie, Will Any Gentleman? stars George Cole as milquetoast bank clerk Henry Sterling. While attending a music hall show, Sterling accidentally falls under the spell of stage hypnotist Mendoza (Alan Badel). Undergoing a complete change of character, Sterling Read More

Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow

Actors: George Cole, Oscar Homolka, Nadia Gray, Frederick [Fritz] Valk, Geoffrey Sumner

Synopsis: Top Secret gets under way when George (George Cole), a janitor in a research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the plans for a revolutionary atomic weapon. As George embarks on his annual vacation, the research security team embarks on a nationwide search for the hapless broom-pusher. Read More

Mr. Lord Says No

Actors: Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne, Dandy Nichols, John Stratton

Synopsis: Mr. Henry Lord (Stanley Holloway) and his wife Lilian (Kathleen Byron) have been asked to move from their home to make room for the 1950 Festival of Britain. But Mr. Lord, as the title makes clear, has no intention of doing so. The government tries all sorts of persuasion and coercion, but ends up Read More

Flesh and Blood

Actors: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, Joan Greenwood, Andre Morell

Synopsis: Three generations of a Scottish clan are chronicled in this melodramatic saga. The film starts with the death of a sickly med student in a Glasgow slum. His fiancee also dies in childbirth. Her brother, who survives, begins raising her baby girl who grows up to have an affair with a lab assistant. Read More

Operation Disaster - Morning Departure

Synopsis: A foundering British submarine provides the basis for this gripping drama. The trouble begins when the sub strikes a mine. The sub cannot surface, and only twelve on board survived the blast. Now rescuers must save them, but more trouble ensues when the trapped men below are informed that due to Read More

A Christmas Carol

Actors: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Michael Hordern, Hermione Baddeley

Synopsis: Widely considered to be the definitive of the many film versions of Charles Dickens' classic novel is this 1951 British adaptation, starring Alastair Sim (entitled "Scrooge" in its U.K. release). Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge, a London miser who, despite his wealth, refuses to make charitable Read More

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Actors: Dennis Price, John McCallum, Stanley Holloway, Gladys Henson, Pauline Stroud

Synopsis: Despite its lighthearted title, Lady Godiva Rides Again is a fairly potent indictment of the darker side of beauty contests. Waitress Marjorie (Pauline Stroud) enters one competition after another, hoping for fame and fortune. She manages to make the finals of a "Lady Godiva" contest, never Read More

Laughter in Paradise

Actors: Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, Guy Middleton, George Cole, Hugh Griffith, Beatrice Campbell

Synopsis: Four relatives find themselves going to unusual lengths to inherit a fortune in this British comedy. Henry Russell (Hugh Griffith) was a practical joker all his life, and his sly sense of humor is hardly stilled by his death; when his four closest relatives gather for the reading of the will, they Read More

The Wild Heart

Actors: Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Esmond Knight, Sybil Thorndike, Edward Chapman

Synopsis: The brooding British romantic drama Gone to Earth is better known by its American title The Wild Heart. Filmed in England and cofinanced by David O. Selznick and Alexander Korda, the film stars Jennifer Jones (Mrs. Selznick) as Hazel Woodus, a tempestuous Welsh gypsy maid who can't seem to stay Read More

Morning Departure

Actors: John Mills, Helen Cherry, Richard Attenborough, Lana Morris, Nigel Patrick

Synopsis: Morning Departure isn't about a commuter train but instead the story of an imperiled submarine. On a routine postwar mission, the sub strikes a forgotten mine and sinks to the bottom. The twelve-man crew comes face to face with the probability of permanent entombment and eventual suffocation; the Read More

My Brother's Keeper

Actors: Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, George Cole, Bill Owen, David Tomlinson

Synopsis: Anticipating The Defiant Ones by nearly ten years, the British My Brother's Keeper concentrates on the exploits of two handcuffed-together escaped convicts. The protagonists are career criminal George Martin (Jack Warner) and terrified "first timer" Willie Stannard (George Cole). The film is one Read More

The Spider and the Fly

Actors: Guy Rolfe, Nadia Gray, Eric Portman, Edward Chapman, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not Read More

Quartet

Actors: Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Ian Fleming, Dirk Bogarde, George Cole, Jack Raine, Cecil Parker, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The first of three well-received "omnibus" films hosted by Somerset Maugham, Quartet features four of Maugham's most celebrated stories, each introduced by the author himself. In "The Facts of Life," a seemingly innocent British youth (Jack Watling) is targeted for a shakedown by a beautiful Read More

Journey Together

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Richard Attenborough, Hugh Wakefield, Jack Watling, David Tomlinson, Ronald Squire

Synopsis: Filmed in 1945 and released in the US the following year, the Anglo-American Journey Together is a tribute to the Royal Air Force, with several members of the RAF (and the acting profession) in prominent roles. The story follows the progress of two aspiring RAF pilots, cockney David Wilton (Sgt. Richard Attenborough Read More

Henry V

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Renée Ashershon, Esmond Knight, Leslie Banks, Leo Genn, Felix Aylmer, Janet Burnell

Synopsis: Laurence Olivier's adaptation of Henry V is one of the finest Shakespeare films ever made, full of rousing action, beautiful colors and passionate performances. Henry V is the story of the newly crowned king of England who fights the French for possession of Normandy. Olivier's direction is Read More

The Demi-Paradise

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Marjorie Fielding, Margaret Rutherford, Leslie Henson

Synopsis: Demi-Paradise stars Laurence Olivier as a Russian inventor (accent and all). In Europe to promote his new propeller device, Olivier is put off by English customs and manners-or, rather, the lack of the latter. No one in 1939 England trusts a foreigner, least of all one of those shifty "Reds", but Read More

Those Kids from Town

Synopsis: In this British comedy set during WW II, two Cockney lads are taken to the safety of an earl's country estate. Mayhem ensues as the boys try to become accustomed to the earl's sedate life and the earl tries to get used to their boisterousness. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cottage to Let

Actors: Leslie Banks, Jeanne de Casalis, Carla Lehmann, Alastair Sim, John Mills

Synopsis: Cottage to Let is a taut British wartime spy thriller, laced with moments of genuinely hilarious comedy. The "maguffin" in this instance is a revolutionary new bombsight, designed by inventor John Barrington (Leslie Banks). A group of Nazi spies intend to steal the blueprints for the invention Read More