Graham Cole
Actor/Actriz
18
Películas
8
Series
Graham Cole OBE (born Graham Coleman-Smith on 16 March 1952) is an English actor. Cole was born in Willesden, Middlesex in 1952 to Victor and Freda Coleman-Smith (née Coleman), the youngest of three children.
He appeared in numerous episodes of Doctor Who in the early 1980s, often in uncredited roles, such as Marshman and then a Cyberman in Earthshock. He has also played Melkur in The Keeper of Traken and finally a Jacondan in The Twin Dilemma. He also made a guest appearance in the final series of Sooty and Co as a detective called Maurice and in Only Fools and Horses as a Spanish customs official. His first film appearance was in the James Bond film The Living Daylights in 1987. Cole then appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as one of Walter Donovan's henchmen, who escort Indiana Jones to their boss's New York apartment.
He is best known as PC Tony Stamp in the ITV police drama The Bill, a role he played initially as a recurring character from 1984, and then as a regular from 1988 until 2009. Cole appeared in more episodes of the programme than any other actor, appearing in 1,202 episodes. He had previously spent 12 years in Repertory Theatre, and musicals.
He presented and narrated the police video programme Police Stop!. He appeared regularly on Noel's House Party in sketches with Andrew Paul. Cole has also made a guest appearance in ITV series Law & Order: UK as a barman in one episode.
Cole in costume after appearing in a pantomime in Lichfield in 2015
In his early career in the late 1970s Cole appeared as the Emperor of China in a season of Aladdin at the Grand Theatre in Swansea. Other pantomime appearances have included the role of "Beast" in Beauty & The Beast at the Woodville Halls in Gravesend, Kent. He played Scrooge at Garrick Theatre, Lichfield in 2012 and Abanazer for Theater Royal, Norwich, 2013–2014. He played General Waverley in Irving Berlin's White Christmas at The Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. He later returned to the role at The Dominion Theatre, London.
Cole starred in the gangster-horror film Evil Never Dies in 2014, as DI David Bracken, a film that also starred Katy Manning, P.H. Moriarty and former The Bill colleague Tony Scannell. Cole made appearances in Doctors (2015) and Holby City (2018), before starring in the romantic-drama film 23 Walks in 2020 with Alison Steadman.
Como Actor/Actriz
The Bill
PC Tony Stamp
Ready, Steady, Cook
Self - Contestant
Indiana Jones 3: La Última Cruzada
Henchman (uncredited)
Harry Hill's TV Burp
Tony Stamp
007: Su nombre es peligro
Agent
The Kenny Everett Television Show
Self
A Touch of Cloth
Himself
Sooty & Co.
Countdown
This Morning
Self
Esperanza y gloria
Audience Member (uncredited)
Crossfire
Terrorist (uncredited)
Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
Jacondan
23 Walks
Jimmy
The Story of Doctor Who
In the Best Possible Taste: A Tribute to Kenny Everett
Sketch Performer (Archive Footage)
The Bill: Target
P.C. Stamp
Doctor Who: Time-Flight
Melkur
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken
Melkur
Doctor Who and the Shada Man
Krarg 2
Pareidolia
Father John Cavanagh
Evil Never Dies
Inspector Bracken
The Usual Children
Doctor Who: Shada
Krarg
Police Stop!
Narrator
Carnival of Monsters