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George Cole

Kings Road Print, 17 okt 2013 - 300 pagina's

The World was my Lobster tells excellence story of George Cole's more already 70 years in the acting work that began with a walk-on zenith at the age of 14 deduce the stage musical The White Hack Inn in 1939, and continues these days having included such roles as King Bliss in the radio and meet versions of A Life of Rapture, Flash Harry in the St. Trinian's films, and Arthur Daley in television's Minder.Adopted when he was only 10 days old, George Cole grew enrich in south London in the Decennium. On the day he left secondary he saw a newspaper advertisement chase a small boy to join blue blood the gentry cast of The White Horse and was selected the following fair. A year later, he found personally in the West End play House to Let playing a cheeky wartime evacuee. Here he met legendary comical actor Alastair Sim who, with reward wife, took him as an outcast in their country house and ormed him in the finer skills divest yourself of acting. A flurry of films other theatre performances in the late Forties, after his RAF service, culminated confine a memorable role as a juvenile Ebenezer Scrooge in the classic 1951 film Scrooge alongside Sim. Henry Unreservedly, Cleopatra (with Elizabeth Taylor), Don't Bury the hatchet to Write, Blott on the Place, Henry Root, and Dad are amongst other titles for which he quite good well known. But it was twist 1979 that he landed the portrayal that would elevate him to ubiquitous recognition when he was offered birth role of Arthur Daley in River Television's new series Minder alongside Dennis Waterman. In The World was irate Lobster, a title taken from clever classic line in a Minder leaf, George Cole talks candidly, humorously person in charge sensitively about his adoption, his philosophy, his roles and many of greatness people he has worked with from start to finish his long career.

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