Dennis Lee Cole was an American actor in film and television. Cole worked mostly on television, with numerous guest appearances in the 1960s and '70s. After the 1991 murder of his only son, Joe Cole, he became an activist who spoke against violence on television.
Known For
Credits
Cast Credits
Baywatch Nights (1995)
Guest starring as Man Having Fortune Told
- Episode 1x04: Deadly Vision (Oct 21, 1995)
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Guest starring as Mitch Mercer
- Episode 2x20: Menace, Anyone? (Apr 6, 1986)
Guest starring as Ryan Donovan
- Episode 7x12: Suspicion of Murder (Jan 20, 1991)
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1983)
Guest starring as Dave Marquette
- Episode 2x13: Firestorm (Jan 5, 1985)
The A-Team (1983)
Guest starring as Charles Lake
- Episode 4x03: Where is the Monster When You Need Him? (Oct 1, 1985)
Big Shamus, Little Shamus (1979)
Guest starring as Grainger
- Episode 1x03: The Loser (Oct 13, 1979)
Guest starring as TBD
(2 episodes)
- Episode 1x06: The Bar Mitzvah ()
- Episode 1x05: The Rubens ()
Trapper John, M.D. (1979)
Guest starring as E.J.'s Obsetrician
- Episode 5x08: The Agony of D'Feet (Nov 20, 1983)
Guest starring as Dr. Esterhaus
- Episode 6x15: So Little, Gone (Feb 17, 1985)
Flying High (1978)
Guest starring as Victor
- Episode 1x13: Swan Song for an Ugly Duckling (Dec 22, 1978)
The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978)
Guest starring as Paul Jordan
- Episode 1x03: Murder! Murder! (Sep 29, 1978)
Vega$ (1978)
Guest starring as Miles Glover / Drew Marley
- Episode 2x14: All Kinds of Love (Jan 23, 1980)
The Love Boat (1977)
Guest starring as Dennis Grant
- Episode 4x01: Friends and Lovers / Sergeant Bull / Miss Mother (Oct 25, 1980)
Guest starring as Alan Harmon
- Episode 2x22: The Decision / Poor Little Rich Girl / Love Me, Love My Dog (Feb 24, 1979)
Guest starring as Dennis Kingsley
- Episode 1x02: Oh, Dale! / The Main Event / A Tasteful Affair (Oct 1, 1977)
Fantasy Island (1977)
Guest starring as David Farley
- Episode 3x21: Jungle Man / Mary Ann and Miss Sophisticate (Mar 8, 1980)
Guest starring as Dr. Lloyd Hopper
- Episode 1x09: The Funny Girl / Butch and Sundance (Mar 18, 1978)
Guest starring as Mike Jenner
- Episode 3x05: The Chain Gang / The Boss (Oct 20, 1979)
Guest starring as Captain Jeff Bailey
- Episode 2x21: Yesterday's Love / Fountain of Youth (Mar 17, 1979)
Guest starring as Duke McCall
- Episode 7x18: Mermaid and the Matchmaker / The Obsolete Man (Mar 24, 1984)
Guest starring as Mr. Sherwood
- Episode 6x05: Everybody Goes to Gilley's / Face of Fire (Nov 20, 1982)
Guest starring as Paul
- Episode 5x06: Druids / A Night in a Harem (Nov 14, 1981)
Guest starring as Jeremy Hale
- Episode 4x03: The Skater's Edge / Concerto of Death / The Last Great Race (Nov 8, 1980)
Guest starring as Major Calvin Doyle
- Episode 4x13: The Man from Yesterday / World's Most Desirable Woman (Jan 31, 1981)
The Feather and Father Gang (1976)
Guest starring as Simpson
- Episode 1x09: Here a Spy, There a Spy (Jun 4, 1977)
Charlie's Angels (1976)
Guest starring as Tony Bordinay
- Episode 1x19: Dancing in the Dark (Feb 23, 1977) [Special Guest Star]
Guest starring as James Britten
- Episode 2x09: Unidentified Flying Angels (Nov 2, 1977)
Guest starring as Carl Hansworth
(2 episodes)
- Episode 3x18: Terror on Skis Part II (Feb 7, 1979)
- Episode 3x17: Terror on Skis (Feb 7, 1979)
Bearcats! (1971)
Starring as Johnny Reach
(3 episodes)
- Episode 1x11: The Big Guns (Dec 2, 1971)
- Episode 1x06: Conqueror's Gold (Oct 28, 1971)
- Episode S01 Special: Powderkeg (Pilot) (Apr 16, 1971)
Bracken's World (1969)
Starring as Davey Evans
(4 episodes)
- Episode 1x20: Whatever Happened to Happy Endings? (Feb 13, 1970)
- Episode 1x19: Superstar (Feb 6, 1970)
- Episode 1x18: A Perfect Piece of Casting (Jan 30, 1970)
- Episode 1x05: Options (Oct 17, 1969)
Guest starring as Davey Evans
(2 episodes)
- Episode 1x15: Focus on a Gun (Jan 2, 1970) [Credit Only]
- Episode 1x11: It's the Power Structure, Baby (Dec 5, 1969) [Credit Only]
The Hollywood Squares (1966)
Guest starring as Panelist
(2 episodes)
- Episode 1x46: August 28-September 1, 1967 (Aug 28, 1967)
- Episode 1x41: July 10 - 14, 1967 (Jul 10, 1967)
The Felony Squad (1966)
Starring as Det. Jim Briggs
(73 episodes)
- Episode 3x17: The Law and Order Blues (Jan 15, 1969)
- Episode 3x16: Conspiracy of Power (2) (Jan 3, 1969)
- Episode 3x15: Conspiracy of Power (1) (Dec 19, 1968)
- Episode 3x14: Blind Terror (Jan 9, 1969)
- Episode 3x13: The Last Man in the World (Dec 18, 1968)
- Episode 3x12: Dark Memory (Dec 10, 1968)
- Episode 3x11: The Distant Shore (Dec 2, 1968)
- Episode 3x10: Hostage (Nov 29, 1968)
- Episode 3x09: The Fatal Hours (Nov 22, 1968)
- Episode 3x08: Matched for Murder (Nov 15, 1968)
- Episode 3x07: The Nowhere Man (2) (Nov 1, 1968)
- Episode 3x06: The Nowhere Man (1) (Oct 24, 1968)
- Episode 3x05: Kiss Me, Kill You (Oct 17, 1968)
- Episode 3x04: The Deadly Innocents (Oct 3, 1968)
- Episode 3x03: Underground Nightmare (Sep 30, 1968)
- Episode 3x02: Jury of One (Sep 23, 1968)
- Episode 3x01: A Fashion for Dying (Sep 16, 1968)
- Episode 2x26: The Human Target (Mar 7, 1968)
- Episode 2x25: Image of Evil (Feb 29, 1968)
- Episode 2x24: Man on Fire (Feb 20, 1968)
- Episode 2x23: Epitaph for a Cop (Feb 15, 1968)
- Episode 2x22: Nightmare on a Dead-End Street (Feb 12, 1968)
- Episode 2x21: The Deadly Abductors (Feb 1, 1968)
- Episode 2x20: The Love Victim (Jan 25, 1968)
- Episode 2x19: The Flip Side of Fear (2) (Jan 11, 1968)
- Episode 2x18: The Flip Side of Fear (1) (Jan 4, 1968)
- Episode 2x17: Killing, Country Style (Dec 28, 1967)
- Episode 2x16: Bed of Strangers (Dec 21, 1967)
- Episode 2x15: No Sad Songs for Charlie (Dec 14, 1967)
- Episode 2x14: An Arrangement with Death (2) (Dec 7, 1967)
- Episode 2x13: An Arrangement with Death (1) (Dec 1, 1967)
- Episode 2x12: Ordeal by Terror (Nov 24, 1967)
- Episode 2x11: My Mommy Got Lost (Nov 15, 1967)
- Episode 2x10: Who'll Take Care of Joey? (Nov 8, 1967)
- Episode 2x09: Time of Trial (Nov 1, 1967)
- Episode 2x08: Hit and Run, Run, Run (Oct 26, 1967)
- Episode 2x07: The Pat Hand of Death (Oct 19, 1967)
- Episode 2x06: The Deadly Junkman (Oct 3, 1967)
- Episode 2x05: The Death Bag (Sep 26, 1967)
- Episode 2x04: The 30-Gram Kill (Sep 20, 1967)
- Episode 2x03: A Most Proper Killing (Sep 14, 1967)
- Episode 2x02: The Counterfeit Cop (Sep 5, 1967)
- Episode 2x01: Let Him Die! (Aug 31, 1967)
- Episode 1x30: Debt of Fear (Apr 10, 1967)
- Episode 1x29: The Savage Streets (Apr 3, 1967)
- Episode 1x28: The Fear Merchant (Mar 27, 1967)
- Episode 1x27: A Blueprint for Dying (Mar 20, 1967)
- Episode 1x26: Live Coward, Dead Hero (Mar 13, 1967)
- Episode 1x25: Echo of a Killing (Feb 27, 1967)
- Episode 1x24: Target! (Feb 20, 1967)
- Episode 1x23: The Desperate Silence (Feb 13, 1967)
- Episode 1x22: Breakout (Feb 6, 1967)
- Episode 1x21: The Strangler (Jan 30, 1967)
- Episode 1x20: The Night of the Shark (2) (Jan 23, 1967)
- Episode 1x19: The Night of the Shark (1) (Jan 16, 1967)
- Episode 1x18: The Deadly Partner (Jan 9, 1967)
- Episode 1x17: A Death for a Dream (Jan 2, 1967)
- Episode 1x16: Miss Reilly's Revenge (Dec 26, 1966)
- Episode 1x15: A Penny Game, A Two-Bit Murder (Dec 19, 1966)
- Episode 1x14: Fear Below (Dec 12, 1966)
- Episode 1x13: The Killer Instinct (Dec 5, 1966)
- Episode 1x12: The Terror Trap (Nov 28, 1966)
- Episode 1x11: Between Two Fires (Nov 21, 1966)
- Episode 1x10: Killer with a Badge (Nov 14, 1966)
- Episode 1x09: Prologue to Murder (Nov 7, 1966)
- Episode 1x08: Death of a Dream (Oct 31, 1966)
- Episode 1x07: The Immaculate Killer (Oct 24, 1966)
- Episode 1x06: Flame Out (Oct 17, 1966)
- Episode 1x05: A Date with Terror (Oct 10, 1966)
- Episode 1x04: Strike Out (Oct 3, 1966)
- Episode 1x03: The Broken Badge (Sep 26, 1966)
- Episode 1x02: A Walk to Oblivion (Sep 19, 1966)
- Episode 1x01: The Streets Are Paved with Gold (Sep 12, 1966)