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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
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| Born | 1959 (age 66–67) Launceston, Cornwall, England |
| Occupations | Film and television director |
| Partner | Kate Isitt |
| Children | 2 |
Nigel Cole (born 1959) is an English film and television director.
Cole began his career in the 1980s, directing current affairs shows and documentaries for Central Independent Television. Into the 1990s, Cole co-wrote the play Sod with Arthur Smith, which he also directed and presented at the Pleasance during the 1993 Edinburgh Festival. Cole has also directed episodes of Peak Practice and Cold Feet for television. He also directed many episodes of the British television show Doc Martin, including four in the last season (2022). He has also directed Saving Grace, Calendar Girls and A Lot Like Love for cinema.
Saving Grace won the World Cinema Audience Award at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and gained him a nomination for Best Director at that year's British Independent Film Awards. Made in Dagenham received a BAFTA nomination as Best British Film and a nomination for the Satellite Award for Best Film – Musical or Comedy.
In 2014, he directed three episodes of the drama series Last Tango in Halifax, which aired in December 2014 and January 2015.[1][2][3]
Cole and actress Kate Isitt have two children,[4] including Matilda Cole, a member of Loud LDN,[5] who has appeared in her father's productions Made in Dagenham and The Wedding Video.[6]
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Nigel Cole (born 1959) is an English film and television director.
Matilda Clementine Isitt Cole is an English musician and actress. Born in Sussex, she is the daughter of film director Nigel Cole and the actress Kate Isitt and appeared in several of the former's works in the 2010s. In 2020, she signed a record deal and released the EPs Milk Teeth, The High Dive, and Pomegranate and multiple singles including a cover version of The Weeknd's "The Hills". She is an original member of Loud LDN and makes indie-pop music.
Kate Isitt is an English actress known for her role as beauty therapist Sally Harper in the BBC television situation comedy Coupling. From 1995 to 1998, she played Alison, a secretary in a solicitors' office, in Is It Legal? Isitt had a minor part in the film of The Saint (1997). In 1998 she played alongside Alan Davies in "Black Canary", an episode of the BBC TV mystery series Jonathan Creek and as Davies's wife in a pilot episode of the BBC comedy, A Many Splintered Thing (of which a series was made in 2000, by which time Isitt had joined the cast of Coupling). In the same year she appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's BBC TV drama, The Tribe, with, among others, Anna Friel and Joely Richardson. She also appeared as a woman whose husband became a surrogate father in Strictly Confidential in 2006. In the same year, she played alongside Demi Moore in the Craig Rosenberg directed film, Half Light. She plays Louisa in the BBC Radio 4 Sitcom Alone. The fourth series was recorded in June 2022. Isitt trained at the Arts Educational School. She is married to Nigel Cole with whom she has two children including Matilda Cole.
Doc Martin is a British medical comedy-drama television series starring Martin Clunes as Doctor Martin Ellingham. It was created by Dominic Minghella developing the character of Dr Martin Bamford from the Nigel Cole comedy film Saving Grace (2000). Real-life physician Martin Scurr was the inspiration for Bamford. Ten series aired between 2004 and 2022, with a television film airing on Christmas Day in 2006. The ninth series premiered on ITV in September 2019. The tenth (and final) series was broadcast from 7 September 2022 to 26 October 2022; the last installment was a Christmas special that aired on 25 December 2022. On 29 December 2022 a documentary titled “Farewell Doc Martin” was shown on ITV, featuring behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast and crew as they filmed the final series. It also looked back at highlights from the 18 years of the show.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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