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.

[1] 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.

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.

Cole made appearances in Doctors (2015) and Holby City (2018), before starring in the romantic-drama film 23 Walks in 2020 with Alison Steadman.

He is a patron of the Orphans' Gift Fund South East London Boroughs of the Constables Branch Board of the Metropolitan Police.

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