5th March 1985: British actor George Cole with wife Penny at the BAFTA awards ceremony. (Photo by John Gooch/Keystone/Getty Images)

(L-R) Actors Marianne Faithfull, Avril Elgar, Glenda Jackson and George Cole, in a scene from the play ‘Three Sisters’, at the Royal Court Theatre, London, 1967. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

English actors George Cole (left) and Dennis Waterman pictured together in character as Arthur Daley and Terry McCann during filming of the television series Minder in London on 3rd October 1979. (Photo by United News/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

Stage & Screen, Shepperton Studios, England, 1957, Some of the cast of the film “Blue Murder at St, Trinians”, Actors include, Vicki Hammond, Jose Read, Lisa Gastoni, Marigold Russell, Dilys Haye, Rosalind Knight, Lionel Jefferies and George Cole (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

2nd November 1955: British actor George Cole wearing a bowler hat. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The American actor Robert Taylor (Spangler Arlington Brough) and the British actor George Cole acting in the film ‘Quentin Durward’. 1955 (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Cinema, 1954, A picture of the actor George Cole during the making of the film “Belles of St, Trinians,” (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

1951: Joan Greenwood (1921 – 1987) and George Cole share a scene in the film ‘Flesh And Blood’, directed by Anthony Kimmins for British Lion. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

circa 1935: British actor George Cole. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)