Graham Cole

Graham Cole (born Graham Coleman-Smith on 16 March 1952 in Willesden, London) is an English actor.

He is best known as PC Tony Stamp in the ITV police drama The Bill, a role he has played since 1987. He had made previous uncredited appearances as an unnamed PC.

He appeared in numerous episodes of Doctor Who in the early 1980s, often in uncredited roles, such as Marshman and Cyberman. He has also played Melkur in The Keeper of Traken and most recently a Jacondan in The Twin Dilemma.

He has also presented and narrated the police video programme Police Stop!. He appeared regularly on Noel's House Party in sketches with Andrew Paul. Cole was gunged on the show, which was arranged by his mother in law.

Cole is also a singer. In his early career Graham appeared as the Emperor of China in a record-breaking 1978/79 season of "Aladdin" at the Grand Theatre in Swansea. Other pantomime appearances have included the role of "Beast" in "Beauty & The Beast" at the Woodville Halls in Gravesend and he has appeared in sixteen pantomimes.

Cole is also a member of the showbusiness charity "The Grand Order of Water Rats". He is patron of the National Holiday Fund, which takes sick and disabled children to Disney Florida, has been patron to Childline for over 18 years, and of the Orphans Gift Fund South East London Boroughs, Constables Branch Board, Metropolitan Police.

Graham is honoured to have some of his police uniform, as worn during the filming of The Bill, on the wall in Planet Hollywood, Sydney.

External links

• Graham Cole at IMDb