Oliver Cotton

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1944-06-20 (80 years old)

Place of Birth London, England, UK

Also Known As 올리버 코튼

Oliver Cotton

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.

Known For

Actor

Raindogs

as Duke

2021
The Last Duel

as Jean de Carrouges III

2020
Wonder Woman 1984

as Simon Stagg

2018
Killing Eve

as Maciek

2017
Pylon

as The Chairman

2015
North v South

as Brian Galloway

2012
The Dark Knight Rises

as 2 Star Air Force General

2012
Ripper Street

as Daniel Goldman

2010
Money

as Lorne Guyland

2009
Pope Joan

as Arsenius

2009
Margaret

as Michael Heseltine

2008
Attila the Hun

as Actius

2005
Colour Me Kubrick

as PC Metcalf (uncredited)

2004
New Tricks

as Hugh Dryden

2003
Out of the Ashes

as Moshe Perl

2003
Shanghai Knights

as Jack the Ripper

2003
Murder Investigation Team

as Artyom Biartoulis

2002
2001
Baby Blue

as Ron Wood

2001
Waking the Dead

as Sir Charles Stewart

1999
Beowulf

as Hrothgar

1997
Midsomer Murders

as Michael Maybury

1996
1995
1995
Joseph

as Architekt

1993
1993
Harry

as Paul Collier

1992
Heartbeat

as Harry Adams

1991
Redemption

as Neville Nunn

1988
The Party

as Andrew Ford

1988
The Play on One

as Andrew Ford

1988
1987
Hiding Out

as Hit-Man

1987
The Sicilian

as Cmdr. Roccofino

1986
Lovejoy

as Frobel

1985
Eleni

as Katis

1984
Robin of Sherwood

as Lord Owen of Clun

1982
Firefox

as Dmitri Priabin

1982
Oliver Twist

as Monks

1981
Bergerac

as Jacques Laronde

1981
The Borgias

as Cesare Borgia

1979
Henry VIII

as Earl of Surrey

1978
1975
1975
Space: 1999

as Spearman

1970
1967
1965
Public Eye

as Removal Man

Creator

2020
The English Game

as Creator