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Farewell Arfur Daley

  • 06-08-2015 12:12PM
    #1
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭


    BBC R4 has just reported that the actor George Cole has died - a genuinely brilliant actor.

    The tributes will be justified on this one - and hats off to his scriptwriters as well.
    Arthur: Your modern entrepreneur is constantly gazing into the crystal ball of opportunity.
    Terry: And what do your crystal balls tell you about that then, eh? Is there gonna be a big rush on firewood?
    Arthur: No, Terry. That is... that is "an Indian ebony and porcupine quill workbox, nineteenth century". Described as "distressed".
    Terry: Distressed?
    Arthur: Yes, that is a term they use in the auctioneering world.
    Terry: Yeah, loosely translated as "knackered"!
    Arthur: As with most things in this life, Terry, it is in the eye of the beholder. One man's firewood is another man's porcupine wotsisname.


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  • #2
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    RIP

    I'm sitting here singing the theme tune......"I Could be so good for you!"


  • #3
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    RIP George.

    Time for a VAT in the eternal Winchester Club.


  • #4
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Great character, great TV.

    RIP


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylKK-iB_mZI


  • #5
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Genuinely sad about this, a superb comic actor and did a lot more than give Terry the roundabout. That said I'd buy a car from him and a competitively priced Hitachi VCR without any of that annoying wrapping or a box.


  • #6
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Ah, thats sad. Looks like a binge session of Minder is on the cards for me this weekend.


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  • #7
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    RIP George / Arfur /Flash Arry


    Thanks for the entertainment :)

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • #8
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Menas wrote: »
    Ah, thats sad. Looks like a binge session of Minder is on the cards for me this weekend.

    ITV4 are as usual cranking them out every afternoon.


  • #9
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    Goodbye Minder.:p


  • #10
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,119 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    Ah good gawd. Farewell George. A gent


  • #11
    horgan_p
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 2,658 Mod ✭✭✭✭horgan_p


    Eeek - a ghost !!


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    To be honest i thought he went years ago. Anyway RIP great actor


  • #13
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    RIP George, thanks for the laughs!

    And my condolences 'to her in-doors'.


  • #14
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Deleted User wrote: »
    To be honest i thought he went years ago. Anyway RIP great actor

    Understandable enough - he was 90 and had been out of the limelight for a good while.


  • #15
    thoughtmelodic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭thoughtmelodic


    Arthur Daley: At that price, it's a steal.
    Dave Harris: That's what worries me.


    Rest in peace


  • #16
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    The quote from the Minder script in the OP could easily be a Del Boy and Rodders back and forth.

    Isn't it true that the BBC commissioned OFAH as a copy of the ITV show Minder (albeit less gritty)?


  • #17
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Great as Flash Harry in the St. Trinian's movies...RIP


  • #18
    wilhelm roentgen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭wilhelm roentgen


    Arthur Daley, little dodgy maybe, but underneath,
    'E's alright......


  • #19
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,119 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    KungPao wrote: »
    The quote from the Minder script in the OP could easily be a Del Boy and Rodders back and forth.

    Isn't it true that the BBC commissioned OFAH as a copy of the ITV show Minder (albeit less gritty)?

    Yes. Ofah was the bbc response to minder. They both struggled a bit in series one and would have been cut nowadays no doubt.


  • #20
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Yes. Ofah was the bbc response to minder. They both struggled a bit in series one and would have been cut nowadays no doubt.

    Yeah, I think I read that during the original showing of OFAH season 1, the ratings were horrible (for 1981 any way) and there was no buzz about it which made season 2 look unlikely, but then through repeats it caught on. Same with Minder I imagine.


  • #21
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    He's up at the bar in heaven loosening his tie with Frank Butcher, wearing nice camel skin coats, nursing their scotches and waiting for Del Boy to hurry up and join them.


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  • #22
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    anncoates wrote: »
    He's up at the bar in heaven loosening his tie with Frank Butcher, wearing nice camel skin coats, nursing their scotches and waiting for Del Boy to hurry up and join them.
    ...who promptly asks the bar maid for a Caribbean Stallion or a large Tia Maria & Lucozade, and tells her to have a drink herself from the change.


  • #23
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    When I was a kid I had a steel badge with his picture and "nice little earner" emblazoned on it

    Legendary charectar


  • #24
    TheLastMohican
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    RIP Arfur, .............. my saan!


  • #25
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Gutted. I adored George Cole and was obsessed with Minder from my early teens, like lots who grew up in the 80s. His recent autobiography The World Was My Lobster is a gem. His greatest disappointment in life was without doubt that he was estranged from his daughter (from his first marrige) since she was a teenager. Interesting factoid, he was actually in Dublin during WWII and more specifically, the day Britain declared war on Germany.

    Too Many Crooks is a classic film form 1959 if anyone wants to watch him in an earlier role.

    Glad he's no longer suffering. Fcuking legend.

    Thoughts with her indoors.


  • #26
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,365 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    anncoates wrote: »
    He's up at the bar in heaven loosening his tie with Frank Butcher, wearing nice camel skin coats, nursing their scotches and waiting for Del Boy to hurry up and join them.

    drinking scotch? A VAT surely.


  • #27
    mikeym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭mikeym


    R.I.P :(


  • #28
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,119 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    Only 108 episodes of the classic minder to start on tonight in memory of the numero uno. The guvnor.

    'Arthur is dead, long live Arthur' is a good 'un. Where he fakes his own death to avoid a tax audit. George's own 'er indoors' Penny Morrell is actually in that episode with him.


  • #29
    jelutong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭jelutong


    The world is your lobster Terry.


  • #30
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    Understandable enough - he was 90 and had been out of the limelight for a good while.

    He did a fair amount of TV stuff in the noughties (like Midsummer Murders, Heartbeat etc) but yeah, hadn't worked in a long enough time. Tragically, as fate would have it, he was due to make a movie this year but it was delayed.

    Two years back he appeared in the following episode of BBC's One Show.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpdU8D-Zg4Y


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  • #31
    thoughtmelodic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭thoughtmelodic


    Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Only 108 episodes of the classic minder to start on tonight in memory of the numero uno. The guvnor.

    'Arthur is dead, long live Arthur' is a good 'un. Where he fakes his own death to avoid a tax audit. George's own 'er indoors' Penny Morrell is actually in that episode with him.

    I actually watched that one the other day, it's a good one

    Get hold of my accountant Andrew a bit cunning, he'll know what's going on, I don't want my death to ruin my living


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