Graham Cole
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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. The first of these was as Melkur in The Keeper of Traken and the last was as a Jacondan in The Twin Dilemma.
He had also presented and narrated the police video programme Police Stop!. He appeared regularly on Noel's House Party in a sketch with Andrew Paul. Cole was gunged on the show.
Gifted with a fine singing voice, 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, with top Welsh comedian Kenny Smiles and TV personality Anne Aston. Other pantomime appearances have included the role of "Beast" in "Beauty & The Beast" at the Woodville Halls in Gravesend.
Graham is also a valued member of the showbusiness charitry The Grand Order of Water Rats, joining an honour roll with such luminaries as Danny la Rue, Roger de Courcey, Joe Pasquale, Billy Pearce and many other stars of entertainment.
