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George Alphonsus Cooper was born in Leeds in 1925. After training as an electrical engineer and architect he was called up for National Service, working for the Royal Artillery in India. During that period he became interested in performing and on his discharge joined Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in Manchester. To avoid confusion with American actor George Cooper he used his middle initial in his stage name. His first appearance on television was in 1946. Over the next fifty years, he was a regular on the screen developing a career out of portraying slightly bumbling authoritarian characters. In 1964, he won a recurring role in ITV's Coronation Street playing businessman Willie Piggott who famously tried to bribe Ken Barlow to give his son Brian a pass on his tech exam. He had regular roles in Z-Cars and Dixon of Dock Green. In 1960, he appeared in the West End play Billy Liar playing the father of the title character, later reprising the role in the 1973 television series. He appeared in comedies such as Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Sykes and Mind Your Language. In 1985, he took on the role of no-nonsense caretaker Eric Griffiths in the incredibly successful children's drama Grange Hill, playing the role for seven years and earning a place in the hearts of a generation of children. His last TV appearance was in a 1995 episode of Casualty. He died in a nursing home in Hampshire on 16th November, 2018.
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10 February 1965
Gerry and Fred Marsden, Les McGuire, and Les "Chad" Chadwick portray themselves in a romp through the early-1960s Liverpool Beat Scene.
01 January 1976
In hopes of winning a home decoration competition, the overbearing Mrs. Foster employs two men to repaint her flat.
16 June 1983
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end.
01 January 1963
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom.
31 December 1984
Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score
09 November 1975
Shows John Cleese learning how to deal with "difficult customers" in a professional yet friendly manner and turn them into clients.
07 November 1968
In the shadow of Castle Dracula, the Prince of Darkness is revived by blood trickling from the head-wound of an unconscious priest attempting exorcism.
05 September 1962
After the mysterious crash of a millionaire's private plane, scientists secretly harvest the dying man's brain and keep it alive in a laboratory in order to communicate via telepathy.
03 March 2008
A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.
12 May 1985
World War II vets travel to England for a reunion at their old base. Stars Judi Trott, Barry Morse, m
06 February 1957
A beautiful redhead becomes involved with a group of small-time hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery.
11 June 1994
It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to England to discover his true identity.
28 February 1964
A young woman is plagued by nightmares of her asylum-patient mother. Upon returning to her family home, the nightmares become real when she sees a strange woman pacing the halls.
17 February 1972
A stolid British family from Bishops Stortford are adventurous and book a holiday in a villa in Morocco, where things befall them.
02 January 1984
A tale of real-life British aviation pioneer Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia, who would later mysteriously disappear.
14 December 1965
Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England.
17 August 1971
Men behave in a beastly, chauvinistic manner at an office party, turning what should be a fun break from work into an exercise in bad taste.
05 August 1983
As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
03 July 1958
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller.
13 March 1957
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
15 January 1978
One of the most moving stories in the annals of sports is presented in this true drama documenting the love affair of baseball immortal Lou Gehrig and his wife Eleanor.
23 April 1964
After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant.
28 February 1952
On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt.
16 June 1972
Two young people plot to get their hands on grannie's money, but rather than simply pushing her down the stairs they hatch an elaborate plot to convince her that radical youth have taken over England are planning to do away with "oldies" like her.
24 August 1963
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
17 May 1962
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
12 November 1970
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place.
01 April 1976
A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into their own hands by executing criminals using medieval methods such as jousting.
19 November 1970
When it's time to wet the baby's head, it's surprising the secrets that emerge...
11 December 1972
A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his new position quite as well as expected.
24 December 1978
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
04 February 1970
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted.
14 January 1958
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
18 January 1978
Behind the façade of form-filling at the Department of Something-or-Other, careers fall and rise at the drop of an apostrophe.
08 September 1972
The legendary Sid James stars as the head of a chaotic household in this movie spin-off from the hit ITV sitcom.
19 December 1970
Compelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low expectations and ambitions.
10 April 1960
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man.
22 August 1968
When rookie P.C. Strange falls for an under aged girl, he is unknowingly compromised by a pair of pornographers.
17 December 1975
Able Seaman Dick Deadeye is charged by Queen Victoria to find the stolen Ultimate Secret. His ugliness means that his life has always been lonely but a buxom barmaid takes a shine to him.
20 December 1967
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
04 December 1967
What is the mystery behind the murder of an apparently innocent man? Who was so afraid of the secrets he knew that they would kill him?
01 March 1967
Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts.
04 May 1970
A group of business enjoying a lavish night on expenses at the Atlantis Hotel fear it is the end of the road for their fradulent collaboration when they suspect a Fraud Squad investigator is in their midst.
01 January 1989
John Cleese training video on customers.
01 October 1966
The TARDIS arrives on the coast of seventeenth century Cornwall — much to the astonishment of Polly and Ben.
09 July 1957
In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness.
16 May 1981
A TV play by Beryl Bainbridge. Formby. As the family gathers for Grandma's funeral, it seems to Olive that the eccentric old lady they have come to bury is far from dead.
01 January 1972
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