Education
Cole was educated at the London School of Economics, and entered the film industry as a scenario reader for Stoll Picture Productions, a company founded by Sir Oswald Stoll.
Cole was educated at the London School of Economics, and entered the film industry as a scenario reader for Stoll Picture Productions, a company founded by Sir Oswald Stoll.
. Cavalcanti was "a joy" to work with and later in his life Cole remained pleased with his work on the film, stating that it was "very tightly edited by me". Foreign International Trade Commission he produced Danger Manitoba (1964-1967) and Manitoba in a Suitcase (1967-1968). Later he supervised The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972-1974) and Dick Turpin (1979-1982) for London Weekend Television, the latter via the Gatetarn company he founded with Richard Carpenter and Paul Knight.
Sidney Cole was politically engaged through much of his career.
He was involved in making documentaries on the Spanish Civil War with Dickinson and employed blacklisted American writers on The Adventures of Robin Hood, a series whose executive producer Hannah Weinstein had herself chosen exile in London because of McCarthyism. With Peter Proud, Cole founded the ACTT union.