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...now sadly no more. Actor George Cole has passed away, aged 90. Best known for his role as Arthur Daley in 'Minder', him and Dennis Waterman were the best comedy duo since Laurel & Hardy. The phrase that he coined 'Er indoors', winning a place in the Oxford Dictionary.
@electric*mayhem*band wrote:...now sadly no more. Actor George Cole has passed away, aged 90. Best known for his role as Arthur Daley in 'Minder', him and Dennis Waterman were the best comedy duo since Laurel & Hardy. The phrase that he coined 'Er indoors', winning a place in the Oxford Dictionary.
Will the phrase "Er indoors" get deleted from OED, as sexist?
George Cole Was it A Lot Of Things
@electric*mayhem*band wrote:...now sadly no more. Actor George Cole has passed away, aged 90. Best known for his role as Arthur Daley in 'Minder', him and Dennis Waterman were the best comedy duo since Laurel & Hardy. The phrase that he coined 'Er indoors', winning a place in the Oxford Dictionary.
I've been calling mine 'er indoors for thirty odd years 
Can't have a thread about George
without a mention of, for some, myself included,
His best loved character
Flash Harry
Yes McB, the epitome of a 'spiv', and playing alonside his mentor, Alastair Sim.
Ironic though, that the role he was most famous for, he detested.
The late George Cole hated playing his most famous character, Arthur Daley.
He wrote about his distaste for the wheeler dealer character from ITV show ‘Minder’ in his autobiography ‘The World Was My Lobster’.
“He was a dreadful character,” he wrote.
“I don’t understand how he became so popular. It used to be worrying when I got letters from young kids saying Arthur
Daley was just like their dad. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
“He behaved terribly to people who got in the way of him making a quick quid - and the audience still loved him.”
https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/post/126080906416/george-cole-hated-playing-arthur-daley
