Sidney Henry Cole (31 October 1908 – 25 January 1998)[citation needed] was a British film and television producer.
Cole was educated at the London School of Economics (LSE), and entered the film industry as a scenario reader for Stoll Picture Productions,[1] a company founded by Sir Oswald Stoll.
[3] The longest portion of Cole's career though was as a producer, initially credited as an associate producer, for Ealing Studios (where he was employed for eleven years)[3] and the television production company ITC.
Later he supervised The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972–74) and Dick Turpin (1979–82) for London Weekend Television, the latter via the Gatetarn company he founded with Richard Carpenter and Paul Knight.
He was involved in making documentaries on the Spanish Civil War with Dickinson[5] and employed nearly two-dozen blacklisted American writers on The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955–60), a series whose executive producer Hannah Weinstein had herself chosen exile in London because of McCarthyism.