- John Mills, The Baby and the Battleship, 1956. When Cole suddenly abandoned ship as Puncher Roberts, his friend, Jon Pertwee, also quit as Knocker White – two sailors who… well, the title was the pitch.
- Joe Melia, The Wildcats of St Trinian’s, 1980. For the first St Trinian’s school farce since the 1954-1966 series, writer-director Frank Launder obviously wanted Cole to continue his wondrous spiv creation, Flash Harry. He was otherwise engaged. With the role of his life: Arthur Dailey in TV’s Minder, 1979-1994. To half-inch an Arthur phrase, when it came to memorable UK characters, the world was Cole’s lobster.
- Patrick Stewart, Lifeforce, 1984.
- Aubrey Morris, Lifeforce, 1984.
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