Michael Cole

Personal Info

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Creator

Gender

Male

Birthday

March 17, 1933

Died

August 4, 2001 (68 years old)

Place of Birth

Willesden, London, England

Michael Cole

Biography

Michael Cole was a British writer. He created a number of children's programmes from the 1970s to the 1990s, including Alphabet Castle, Heads and Tails and Ragtime, for which he won a Society of Film and Television Award (later known as a BAFTA) for Best Children's Programme. Together with his wife Joanne Cole, he created Bod, originally published as four books in 1965 and made into a TV show in the 1970s, as well as Fingerbobs and Gran.

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