Michael Cole (born July 3, 1940) is an American actor. He is known for
his role as Pete Cochran on the television crime drama The Mod Squad
(1968â€"1973).Cole has appeared in numerous films and TV shows,
beginning in 1961 with a role in the film drama, Forbid Them Not.
Other film credits include the role of Mark in the 1966 science
fiction film, The Bubble, later re-titled Fantastic Invasion of Planet
Earth, Spivey in the western Chuka (1967), Alan Miller in The Last
Child (1971), which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and as
Cliff Norris in Beg, Borrow or Steal (1973). He did a great deal of
stage work after The Mod Squad went off the air, such as Cat On A Hot
Tin Roof.Cole has also appeared on Gunsmoke, in 1966, as Kipp. During
the 1970s, he had many guest appearances on Wonder Woman, The Love
Boat and CHiPs, and appeared in the made-for-TV thriller Evening in
Byzantium in 1978. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked on a piece for
HBO called Nickel Mountain. He also worked on shows such as The Eddie
Capra Mysteries, Murder, She Wrote, Fantasy Island, and Diagnosis
Murder. Later, Cole appeared in Stephen King's two-part made-for-TV
movie It, which aired in 1990, as the older version of the disturbed
Henry Bowers. In 1991, he joined the cast of ABC's General Hospital in
the role of Harlan Barrett.
his role as Pete Cochran on the television crime drama The Mod Squad
(1968â€"1973).Cole has appeared in numerous films and TV shows,
beginning in 1961 with a role in the film drama, Forbid Them Not.
Other film credits include the role of Mark in the 1966 science
fiction film, The Bubble, later re-titled Fantastic Invasion of Planet
Earth, Spivey in the western Chuka (1967), Alan Miller in The Last
Child (1971), which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and as
Cliff Norris in Beg, Borrow or Steal (1973). He did a great deal of
stage work after The Mod Squad went off the air, such as Cat On A Hot
Tin Roof.Cole has also appeared on Gunsmoke, in 1966, as Kipp. During
the 1970s, he had many guest appearances on Wonder Woman, The Love
Boat and CHiPs, and appeared in the made-for-TV thriller Evening in
Byzantium in 1978. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked on a piece for
HBO called Nickel Mountain. He also worked on shows such as The Eddie
Capra Mysteries, Murder, She Wrote, Fantasy Island, and Diagnosis
Murder. Later, Cole appeared in Stephen King's two-part made-for-TV
movie It, which aired in 1990, as the older version of the disturbed
Henry Bowers. In 1991, he joined the cast of ABC's General Hospital in
the role of Harlan Barrett.
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