Some iconic English "Georges"
(fact or fiction, past or present, living or dead) for St George's Day. Each
one represents something quintessentially English.
Pictured above: George Cole (b. 1925) as Arthur Daley in the Euston Films
TV series, Minder (1979-84). Cole played an earlier
iteration of a similar character, the spiv, Flash Harry, in Belles of St
Trinian's (1954) and Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957), The Pure Hell of St
Trinian's (1960) and The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966). Incidentally,
"Spiv" is the only word in common English usage that ends with the
letter "v".
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