Oliver Cotton
Actor

Oliver Cotton

5 Movies
5 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 5
Birthday June 20, 1944 (81 years old)
Place of Birth London, England, UK
Also Known As μ˜¬λ¦¬λ²„ μ½”νŠΌ
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Biography

After training at the Drama Centre London, he has worked extensively at the Royal National Theatre playing in many productions including The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Oedipus, In His Own Write, Hamlet, Tamburlaine, No Man's Land, The Passion, Despatches, Half Life, The World Turned Upside Down, Julius Caesar, The Madras House, The Man With the Flower in His Mouth, Tales from the Vienna Woods, The Crucible, Piano, Troilus and Cressida, Money, Summerfolk, The Villain's Opera, Life x 3.

At the Royal Court Theatre, he has appeared in The Local Stigmatic, The Duchess of Malfi, Man is Man, The Enoch Show, Erronenous Zones, The Tutor by Brecht, Lear and Bingo by Edward Bond and Piano/Forte by Terry Johnson.

He was a founder member of Joint Stock appearing in their inaugural production The Speakers by Heathcote Williams. At The Royal Shakespeare Company he has played in The Marrying of Ann Leete, Henry VI, Edward IV, Richard III, The Plain Dealer, Some Americans Abroad by Richard Nelson, Brand by Ibsen.

His West End appearances include The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, Children of a Lesser God by Mark Medoff, Benefactors by Michael Frayn (in whose Liberty Hall he also appeared in at the Greenwich Theatre), An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, Life x 3 by Yasmina Reza, and Brand by Ibsen. He has also played the title role in King Lear at the Southwark Playhouse and Malvolio in Shakespeare's Globe's all-male production of Twelfth Night.

His many TV appearances have included The Borgias (Cesare Borgia), David Copperfield, The Year of the French, The Play on One, Redemption, Poirot, The Camomile Lawn, Westbeach, Zorro, Sharpe's Battle, Rhodes, All Quiet on the Preston Front, Innocents, Judge John Deed, Inspector Lynley, Waking the Dead, M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team, Beastly Games, Sensitive Skin, Midsomer Murders, Hotel Babylon.

His films include Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, The Day Christ Died, Firefox, Oliver Twist, The Sicilian, Eleni, Hiding Out, Christopher Columbus, Son of the Pink Panther, The Innocent Sleep, Phoenix Blue, The Opium War, Beowulf, Baby Blue, The Dancer Upstairs, Shanghai Knights, The Bone Collector, Raindogs, Colour Me Kubrick.

Filmography (71)

Tales of the Underworld 2026
Clancy Sigal: Hollywood Blacklist to 'A' List 2023
The Last Duel 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 2020
Killing Eve 2018
Pylon 2017
North v South 2015
The Musketeers 2014
Gangs of Tooting Broadway 2013
Henry IV, Part 2 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe 2012
The Dark Knight Rises 2012
Henry IV, Part 1 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe 2012
Ripper Street 2012
Money 2010
Margaret 2009
Pope Joan 2009
Attila the Hun 2008
Hotel Babylon 2006
Colour Me Kubrick 2005
Sensitive Skin 2005
New Tricks 2004
Shanghai Knights 2003
Out of the Ashes 2003
Murder Investigation Team 2003
The Dancer Upstairs 2002
Baby Blue 2001
Waking the Dead 2001
Beowulf 1999
Midsomer Murders 1997
The Innocent Sleep 1996
Joseph 1995 Sharpe's Battle 1995
Space Precinct 1994
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front 1994
Son of the Pink Panther 1993
Harry 1993
Sharpe 1993
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery 1992
Heartbeat 1992
The Camomile Lawn 1992
Redemption 1991
The Party 1988
Hannay 1988
The Play on One 1988
The Sicilian 1987
Hiding Out 1987
Lovejoy 1986
David Copperfield 1986
Eleni 1985
Robin of Sherwood 1984
Oliver Twist 1982
Firefox 1982
Bergerac 1981
The Borgias 1981
The Day Christ Died 1980
Henry VIII 1979
When the Actors Come 1978
BBC2 Play of the Week 1977
Caesar and Claretta 1975
Space: 1999 1975
Churchill's People 1974
Second City Firsts 1973
Sovereign's Company 1970
The Adventures of Don Quick 1970
Strange Report 1969
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush 1968
Callan 1967
Public Eye 1965
BBC Play of the Month 1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre 1965
Raindogs