Richard Cole is an English actor who appears in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as Chief of Police Charles Vaughan. Cole has appeared in several other English televisiom series such as The Royal, Cold Feet, Casualty, Heartbeat, Coronation Street and The Royal Today. Cole was also a member of the 'Five Card Trick' theatre group with fellow founders Peter Shepherd, Phil Turner and Bill Moody. The group wrote bespoke material for corporate entertainment and their clients included Mercedes Benz and Rentokil. The group performed from the Summer of 1986 until the end of 1987, making several successful appearances on television singing topical songs based upon the news stories of the day. Cole is also a drama and English teacher in a special needs school in North Yorkshire.