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God rest his soul.
I was just reading a bit about him, he was adopted by the Cole family, later on as a boy of 15 Alister Sim took him under his wing and the Cole family moved into Alister Sim’s house, George stayed there till he was 27.
I found it interesting to read that Alister encouraged George to lose his cockney accent, yet Alister Sim never lost his Scottish accent, indeed I would find it hard to imagine Sim without his distinct accent. Then again George Cole never really did lose his cockney accent, well in most of his best roles anyway.