found: Mary Reilly, c1996:container (George Cole)
found: Halliwell's filmgoer's & video viewer's companion, 11th ed.(Cole, George, 1925- ; British comedy actor)
found: IMDb, via WWW, Oct. 17, 2008(George Cole; date of birth: 22 April 1925, Tooting, London, England, UK; birth name George Edward Cole)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 11, 2015(in obituary published Aug. 6: George Cole; George Edward Cole; b. Apr. 22, 1925, Tooting, London; his birth mother abandoned him when he was 10 days old; he was adopted by George and Florence Cole; d. Wednesday [Aug. 5, 2015], Reading, aged 90; British actor who as the young Scrooge foreshadowed Alastair Sim's aging, coldhearted moneylender in a celebrated film version of A Christmas carol, and who later developed a following as British television's favorite rogue, Arthur Daley, in Minder)