George Cole Interview on Aspel & Co 01/01/1986

okay well fans of my next guests will know what a variety of roles he has played recently he was strapped stark naked to a bed while Julia McKenzie belaboured him with a horsewhip this was during a break in rehearsals of course and the daily would never have approved ladies and gentlemen George Cole [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I think you'll find this mother a nice little earner George nice opening wasn't it no I didn't as people might not have seen it now they know well they suspected I'm sure I suppose company had as the rhyming slang had a sort of new lease of life through mind or didn't it yes yes I think it did it was used originally by villains so that police and people couldn't understand what they're talking about but no the script writers reminder created completely new rhyming slang that was a new language entirely though completely yeah half the time I don't know I was talking about you are a London lad with some vaguely familiar to which were your favorites ah but I think what one one I liked which is one that a lot of people have trouble with talking about a dodgy kettle I have a kind of lunch yeah well yes I've never worked that out kettle for what huh it's victorian when they wore fob watches kept lit up now and now it can be told what about northern is their northern equivalent royal for this well they're scary court dill acetylate nice it is their northern equivalent that that carry quite Dilys easily that's two fellows lost in a field at night and they say where are we where are we and one of them says well just keep quiet till you see a light then we'll know where to go where they quiet means keep it quiet till I see the lead yeah first Nicholas is up Freddie said I'll pose destocking docks off shortly up what's what we they just sit there play your face we have lived with Arthur daily very happily for five years what do you think George is it about us that is made of such a national figure and so loved I don't know I find it very hard to understand he's dreadful maybe eight people like the idea of someone getting away with something someone being a coward and it's a part of them but they hear like seeing portrayed but I do not understand the popularity of that character do you think it ever make the big time uh he dreams about the big time I mean every morning he wakes up he hopes the telephone is gonna rain on the Confederation of British industry are going to ask him to become a member but no he won't make a big time I mean if you worked out oh the amount of money he let lost each week he lost more money you will get on national newspaper bingo what about you and Dennis working for the first time on that show did you hit it off at once no no it took us all two days pussyfooting around just wondering how it was going to be no after after they're really after two days it was wonderful and you say working together the first time after we been doing mind over about two years we were sitting in the car Dennis's in the front someone I was sitting in the back just talking and Dennis was talking about film you've been in called fright and I said you weren't in that he said I was did you weren't I was in that he said who weren't in that well it turned out we were both in the reason I hadn't realized he was in it he played the part of a man who was murdered very early on and spent the entire film lying on his face on the floor and I kept stepping over him if you define difference yes way yes he is extremely gregarious loves football loves pubs I hate football eight pumps eight people I don't understand two of those I don't believe the third of course you were first of us it a spiv in the Centurions film as when should we remember you in that very well was that of course I do 1950 oh yes we are - was it was it fun oh yes yes I did enormous fun well those comedies run were at that time with great fanfare you spent most of your time looking in bushland yes I think flash area was probably conceived in those bushes much further juniors lifetime we mustn't dwell too much on this because life has not been all Arthur and flash Harry you've done some some very interesting work as well what is your next row I'm opening a play next Friday at the Duchess month of Sundays by Bob Lobby who wrote always part of the writing team of the good life fine romance ever-decreasing settle it's a comedy about an old man in a rest home I play the old man yeah he's put himself there his own expense because he can't bear living alone and just gives everyone a rough time and you're gonna relish this obvious I indeed I am mm-hmm the last time you were on stage am i right it was the Pirates of Penzance yes song and dance were you scared absolutely petrified but I was lucky on the first night I mean Drury Lane packed and then there's nothing more exciting in the world and I thought what am I doing here I don't sing I can't dance what do I think I'm doing and I heard my cue and I had gone through a little daughter back and as I went on I hit my head and I can only assume I played the first night with concussion but you had a you can almost match that story right Cantor was singing the rent yes that's right the the Donald economy where it runs up the wall and does the back somersault I've been practicing this for six months because I really did want to do it and I've done it a few times but it was really hurting because it's just a little bit late in life to start all this running up thing and it was just half an hour before the big opening night and I had to do my warm-up for this run up the wall and have a couple of chaps there but to work to just be sure that I'm not going to land in the orchestra and things and because of the extra adrenaline as you know I was so wound up because it's opening night I ran ran up the wall for this practice thing and overshot these two guys complete one fella should have just helped me down like this anyway very good I thought all the tissue from the board foot and really really did it about you up on that to join there and two ribs which I didn't discover until a bit later because that was hurting so much I haven't discovered that I've cracked a couple of ribs as well so it was the same sort of thing it killed the nurse that I wasn't yes nervous anymore just worried I couldn't walk home bird Georgia what I I gather but you have to go abroad with your work sometimes is that the turbo wrench for you yes it is I hate I hate traveling anywhere but when I'm working I enjoy traveling I've ever been to Russia Germany America Hong Kong and women's work on a traveling but not just going to sit somewhere and get brown we heard awful stories about Russia last week from Omar Sharif he hated every moment yes I know I was quite surprised um I heard very nice time there one quite sweet story I I got a kidney stone while I was there really a sweet so very quickly but in Russia when you've had something wrong and you're better you have to go to what they call the poly clinic and I just iced it out right now I said no you must go to the potty clinic make sure you're all right so I went along and two very lovely young lady doctors blonde white colours and interpreter said something to them and the one of them came over to me and without so much as a by only pardon excuse me anything unzip me stuck a hand in my trousers and said something to the interpreter and the interpreter said she says does that hurt and out they went on talking and before I could zip myself up again the other one put her by this time had a great big smile and I said look um could you tell me the names of these doctors because you can't have a thing like that happened to you someone who don't know they blushed and then they said well you want to come back in for a checkup in about a fortnight and then one of them said but I'll be away on holiday for the next it was a very sweet experience pop you playing there I was playing a dog I was playing a dog and I look fairly ridiculous I can tell you and Richard Pearson looked even more ridiculous he was playing a loaf of brown bread but must tell you one other thing when you go anywhere abroad you're always gonna have people on the unit we're gonna hate the place before they get there and we had several of those when I went to Russia and I got out then they've been there some time and one of the said to me look nothing to worry about it's all right but watch out watch out for the KGB detective lens I said ah how do you know he said well you can't miss somebody got two big brass circular area was on the top and I went I walked in suddenly saw KGB detective and I thought well what the hell are detecting I mean everybody knows what they are so I asked one of the Russian acts as I said he's clay GB detective as what what will he sit there after and he fell on the floor laughing he said that's the car you'll hire when you get married and there's a wedding rings on the top also relieve the the the glamour of show biz I gather doesn't really appeal to that much I suppose your idea of Hell would be a showbiz party yes I thought it would be so what about you owner indoors do not go out very much I have to if she drags me out you know I don't want to go but I've local pubs a local park so rest well one of the local pumps I've been living where I am now for about 22 years and now it must be about 20 years because I just married penny and on our way home she said let's go in the problem have a drink she didn't lecture she said I want some eggs let's go in the pub by Smith so while we're in the pub we've had to have a drink hmm oh no it's about you two and a half miles away from my home where I've been living for 15 20 years Malabar and said oh well you thinking of moving down it point you became like several of us a mature dad of Ewell I think in your forties was it when you had your second lot yeah I mean do you recommend that I mean it has one great drawback you have to sit through all those children's television programmes crackerjack what have you I mean what have you been able to teach your children what do you share gambling it's a nothing you see I knew it Arthur Daley key lives George Coe thank you very much Oh Georgia after the break Saharan cecum [Applause]

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Published: Wed Jan 12 2011