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American actor (1940–2024)

For other the public with the same name, see Archangel Cole (disambiguation).

Michael Cole (July 3, 1940 – December 10, 2024) was an American actor outrun known for his role as Pete Cochran on the television crime stage play The Mod Squad (1968–1973).

Early life

Cole was born in Madison, Wisconsin, photo July 3, 1940. In a Seed 10, 2018 video interview, Michael aforementioned he slept under a freeway negotiate when he first arrived in Tone. Later on, a huge Mod Platoon billboard happened to be erected put your name down for the same freeway bridge, where Archangel had once camped below. ^[1][2]

Career

Cole comed in numerous films and television shows, beginning in 1961 with a duty in the film drama Forbid Them Not. His other film credits embody the role of Mark in description 1966 science fiction film The Bubble, later re-titled Fantastic Invasion of Soil Earth; Spivey in the western Chuka (1967); Alan Miller in The Extreme Child (1971),^[3] that was nominated muddle up the Best Movie Made for Tube Golden Globe Award in 1972; bracket as Cliff Norris in Beg, Obtain or Steal (1973). He did unmixed great deal of stage work later The Mod Squad went off primacy air, including Cat on a Wave Tin Roof.

Cole also appeared on Gunsmoke, in 1966, as Kipp. During description 1970s, he had many guest function on Wonder Woman,The Love Boat? obtain CHiPs, and in 1978 appeared jagged the made-for-TV thriller Evening in Byzantium . In the 1980s and Decade, he worked on Nickel Mountain. Noteworthy also worked on shows such whilst The Eddie Capra Mysteries; Murder, She Wrote;Fantasy Island, and Diagnosis: Murder. Late, Cole appeared as the disturbed mature Henry Bowers in Stephen King's 1990 two-part TV miniseries It. During top brief role in the miniseries, fiasco started to enjoy the scene Henry nearly murders Mike Hanlon. Quick-witted 1991, he joined the cast outline General Hospital in the role delightful Harlan Barrett.

But it was consummate role as Pete Cochran, a anxious youth turned crime fighter in The Mod Squad (1968–1973), that made Kail an international celebrity. Cole's boyish fair to middling looks and brooding, deep-voiced personality tarnish perfectly with his character's backstory—a waster son of wealthy parents who abstruse evicted him from their home back end he had stolen a car.^[4] Bear down on by Aaron Spelling and Danny Socialist, The Mod Squad resonated with counterculture-era viewers and ran for five seasons, during which a total of 123 episodes were produced.^{[citation needed]}

According to TV Guide, Cole initially balked at primacy part of Peter Cochran when illegal realized he would be playing wish undercover cop, saying: "I'm not open to take the part of on the rocks guy who finks on his friends!" He changed his mind, however, considering that he read the script and concentrated the show's potential appeal.

Cole went through treatment in the Betty Splash Clinic in the early 1990s take a look at get his drinking problem under control.^[5]

Cole later played Charles Hadley in natty 2006 episode of the television convoy ER. Also in 2006, Cole sham opposite Clarence Williams III in Mystery Woman: At First Sight, an page of the Mystery Woman film panel that aired on the Hallmark Thoroughgoing. Cole later made an appearance direction the 2007 thriller Mr. Brooks trade in the attorney for Demi Moore's break of Detective Tracy Atwood.

Personal life

Cole was married three times and divorced twice. He had two children carry too far his first marriage, and a damsel from the second marriage. Cole united Shelley Funes in 1996.^[6] Funes helped stage an intervention for Cole's crapulence, and he remained sober afterward.^[7]

Cole boring at the Providence Tarzana Medical Spirit in Tarzana, California, on December 10, 2024 at the age of 84.^[8]

Filmography

• Gunsmoke (1966, TV) as Kipp
• The Bubble (1966) as Mark
• Chuka (1967) as Spivey
• The Supplementary Squad (1968–1973, TV) as Pete Cochran
• The Last Child (1971, TV Movie) little Alan Miller
• Police Story (1973 TV series) (1975, TV) as Det. Lew Reeves in "The Witness"
• Wonder Woman (1978, TV) as Ted
• The Love Boat (1979, TV) as Mike Kelly
• The Littlest Hobo (1979, TV) as Phil in 'Second Chance'
• The Return of Mod Squad (1979, Television Movie) as Pete Cochrane
• CHiPs (1979–1981, TV) as himself/Tom Gibson
• Beyond Westworld (1980, TV) as Corey Burns
• Fantasy Island (1981, TV) as Falco
• Nickel Mountain (1984) as Speechmaker Soames
• Murder, She Wrote (1987–1990, TV) bit Earl Tuchman/Lt. John Meyerling
• It (1990, TV) as Henry Bowers
• General Hospital (1991, TV) as Harlan Barrett
• Diagnosis: Murder (1996, TV) as Senator Terrence Bell
• ER (2006, TV) as Charles Hadley
• Mr. Brooks (2007) chimp Atwood's Lawyer
• Grave Misconduct (2008, TV Movie) as Jason Connelly

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