Talk:Michael Cole (actor)

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Body of Work[edit]

I removed the material below and have stored it here on the talk page. It is pretty obvious to me that it has been lifted verbatim from IMDB, it's in the reversed chronological order to Wikipedia style, and the importation has created formatting problems that would take me an hour to resolve. Plus, frankly, it repeats quite a bit of what's written in prose in the article and the remainder is cruft. If someone cares to reformat this and make it oldest-to-newest, go right ahead. Accounting4Taste 22:16, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mr. Brooks (2007) (completed) .... Atwood’s Lawyer

"ER" .... Charles Hadley (1 episode, 2006)

   - Reason to Believe (2006) TV Episode .... Charles Hadley

Mystery Woman: At First Sight (2006) (TV) .... Desmond Hell's End (2005) .... Sgt. Hess Mystery Woman (2003) (TV) .... Jail Chess Player Michael Angel (1998) .... Monsignor Manning ... aka The Apostate (USA: cable TV title) "7th Heaven" .... Eddie King (1 episode, 1997) ... aka 7th Heaven: Beginnings (USA: rerun title) ... aka Seventh Heaven - It's About George... (1997) TV Episode .... Eddie King "Diagnosis Murder" .... Senator Terrence Bell (1 episode, 1996)

   - A Candidate for Murder (1996) TV Episode .... Senator Terrence Bell

"General Hospital" (1991) TV Series .... Harlan Barrett It (1990) (TV) .... Henry Bowers ... aka Stephen King's It (USA: complete title) "Murder, She Wrote" .... Earl Tuchman / ... (2 episodes, 1987-1990)

   - The Big Show of 1965 (1990) TV Episode .... Lt. John Meyerling
   - Murder, She Spoke (1987) TV Episode .... Earl Tuchman

Nickel Mountain (1984) .... Henry Soames ... aka Nikkel-Fjallið (Iceland) "CHiPs" .... Gibson (1 episode, 1981) ... aka CHiPs Patrol (USA: syndication title)

   - Vigilante (1981) TV Episode .... Gibson

"Vega$" .... 'Jimmy Ellis' / ... (1 episode, 1981)

   - No Way to Treat a Victim (1981) TV Episode .... Gene/'Jimmy Ellis'

"Fantasy Island" .... Falco (1 episode, 1981)

   - My Late Lover/Sanctuary (1981) TV Episode .... Falco

"The Littlest Hobo" .... Phil Jenkins (1 episode, 1980)

   - Second Chance (1980) TV Episode .... Phil Jenkins

"Beyond Westworld" .... Corey Burns (1 episode, 1980)

   - The Lion (1980) TV Episode .... Corey Burns

Return of the Mod Squad (1979) (TV) .... Pete Cochrane "The Love Boat" .... Mike Kelly (2 episodes, 1979)

   - Disco Baby/Alas, Poor Dwyer/After the War/Ticket to Ride/Itsy Bitsy: Part 1 (1979) TV Episode .... Mike Kelly
   - Disco Baby/Alas, Poor Dwyer/After the War/Ticket to Ride/Itsy Bitsy: Part 2 (1979) TV Episode .... Mike Kelly

"The Eddie Capra Mysteries" (1 episode, 1978)

   - Now You See Her... (1978) TV Episode

Evening in Byzantium (1978) (TV) .... Danny "Wonder Woman" .... Ted (1 episode, 1978) ... aka The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (USA: new title) ... aka The New Original Wonder Woman (USA: first episodes title)

   - The Man Who Wouldn't Tell (1978) TV Episode .... Ted

Double Nickels (1977) "Police Story" .... Detective Lew Reeves / ... (2 episodes, 1974-1975)

   - The Witness (1975) TV Episode .... Detective Lew Reeves
   - The Ripper (1974) TV Episode .... Doug Baker

"Get Christie Love!" (1 episode, 1974)

   - Deadly Justice (1974) TV Episode

The Wicker Man (1973) .... Musician ... aka Anthony Shaffer's The Wicker Man (UK: complete title) Beg, Borrow, or Steal (1973) (TV) .... Cliff Norris "The Mod Squad" .... Pete Cochran (6 episodes, 1968-1972)

   - Eyes of the Beholder (1972) TV Episode .... Pete Cochran
   - Survival (1971) TV Episode .... Pete Cochran
   - A Time of Hyacinths (1970) TV Episode .... Pete Cochran
   - A Seat by the Window (1969) TV Episode .... Pete Cochran
   - Bad Man on Campus (1968) TV Episode .... Pete Cochran
     (1 more)

The Last Child (1971) (TV) .... Alan Miller ... aka The Day They Took the Babies Away

"Run for Your Life" .... Chico (1 episode, 1967)

   - The Frozen Image (1967) TV Episode .... Chico

Chuka (1967) .... Spivey ... aka Chuka: The Gunfighter The Bubble (1966) .... Mark ... aka Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth (USA: reissue title (cut version)) ... aka The Zoo (USA: 3-D video title) "Gunsmoke" .... Kipp (1 episode, 1966) ... aka Gun Law (UK) ... aka Marshal Dillon (USA: rerun title)

   - Snap Decision (1966) TV Episode .... Kipp

Forbid Them Not (1961)

Self: 2000s 1970s 1960s "TV Land's Top Ten" .... Himself (1 episode, 2006)

   - Top 10 TV Weddings (2006) TV Episode .... Himself

The 3rd Annual TV Land Awards (2005) (TV) .... Himself ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration (2003) (TV) .... Himself Inside TV Land: Cops on Camera (2002) (TV) .... Himself

"CHiPs" .... Himself (1 episode, 1979) ... aka CHiPs Patrol (USA: syndication title)

   - Roller Disco: Part 2 (1979) TV Episode (uncredited) .... Himself

The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style (1978)

"The Music Scene" .... Himself (1 episode, 1969)

   - Episode dated 27 October 1969 (1969) TV Episode .... Himself

Archive Footage: The Best of Bert Newton (2002) (TV) .... Himself

Australian award show[edit]

Is the piece about his speech at an Australian award show 45 years ago relevant? I took out one word but it seems the whole thing is too minor to be included in the articleDecembermonday (talk) 19:05, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Year of Birth[edit]

Most sources give 1945 as his year of birth. But only a few sources are now listing 1940, that appears erroneous.

If anyone has exact proof, please bring to attention. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.65.13.168 (talk) 03:40, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Birth year[edit]

Michael Cole was born in 1940 not 1945. The source we are using is Cole's autobiography and I see no reason why he would falsify his birth date, let alone add five years onto his age! What we really need is a reliable secondary source but the incorrect year seems to have been circulated widely so this might be a futile exercise. This source doesn't look very convincing, has hardly any information in it, has probably picked up the incorrect birth year from another unreliable source. NNDB is an aggregator site that has also probably picked up the incorrect date from elsewhere. This is a circular wiki source so cannot be used, but highlights that his birth year is incorrectly shown on the July 3 wiki page. We need to stick with 1940 and correct the related wiki pages (also Michael Cole dab page). Rodney Baggins (talk) 08:11, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Henry Bowers mix-up[edit]

This person was 50 when It (miniseries) came out. He could not have played the teenage Henry Bowers. Was there a mix-up between two actors or something? שונרא (talk) 20:37, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]