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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 20, 1944
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
- 올리버 코튼
Oliver Cotton
0.5 Popularity
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
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0.0
Interviewee
Clancy Sigal: Hollywood Blacklist to 'A' List
2023
7.4
Jean de Carrouges III
The Last Duel
2021
6.4
Simon Stagg
Wonder Woman 1984
2020
7.9
Maciek
Killing Eve
2018
0.0
The Chairman
Pylon
2017
5.1
Brian Galloway
North v South
2015
7.0
The Musketeers
2014
6.0
Gangs of Tooting Broadway
2013
7.4
Daniel Goldman
Ripper Street
2012
7.8
2 Star Air Force General
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
Credits
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Clancy Sigal: Hollywood Blacklist to 'A' List
as Interviewee
2023
0.0
The Last Duel
as Jean de Carrouges III
2021
7.4
Wonder Woman 1984
as Simon Stagg
2020
6.4
Killing Eve
as Maciek
2018
7.9
Pylon
as The Chairman
2017
0.0
North v South
as Brian Galloway
2015
5.1
The Musketeers
2014
7.0
Gangs of Tooting Broadway
2013
6.0
Ripper Street
as Daniel Goldman
2012
7.4
The Dark Knight Rises
as 2 Star Air Force General
2012
7.8
Henry IV, Part 2 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
as King Henry IV
2012
10.0
Henry IV, Part 1 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
as King Henry IV
2012
10.0
Money
as Lorne Guyland
2010
4.5
Pope Joan
as Arsenius
2009
6.8
Margaret
as Michael Heseltine
2009
5.8
Attila the Hun
as Actius
2008
6.5
Hotel Babylon
2006
7.3
Colour Me Kubrick
as PC Metcalf (uncredited)
2005
5.7
New Tricks
as Hugh Dryden
2004
7.4
Murder Investigation Team
as Artyom Biartoulis
2003
6.3
Out of the Ashes
as Moshe Perl
2003
6.1
Shanghai Knights
as Jack the Ripper
2003
6.1
The Dancer Upstairs
as Merino
2002
6.1
Waking the Dead
as Sir Charles Stewart
2001
7.2
Baby Blue
as Ron Wood
2001
5.7
Beowulf
as Hrothgar
1999
4.3
The Opium War
as Gordon Bremer
1997
5.9
Midsomer Murders
as Michael Maybury
1997
7.5
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
6.3
The Innocent Sleep
as Lusano
1996
4.0
Sharpe's Battle
as Loup
1995
6.8
Joseph
as Architekt
1995
8.2
Space Precinct
as Tylan Gershom
1994
6.2
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
as Declan
1994
5.3
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Harry
as Paul Collier
1993
3.5
Son of the Pink Panther
as King Haroak
1993
4.6
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
as Harana
1992
4.7
Heartbeat
as Harry Adams
1992
7.1
The Camomile Lawn
as Max
1992
5.5
Redemption
as Neville Nunn
1991
0.0
The Party
as Andrew Ford
1988
0.0
The Play on One
as Andrew Ford
1988
6.0
Hannay
1988
5.0
Hiding Out
as Hit-Man
1987
5.7
The Sicilian
as Cmdr. Roccofino
1987
5.2
David Copperfield
as Edward Murdstone
1986
4.8
Lovejoy
as Frobel
1986
7.3
Eleni
as Katis
1985
5.9
Robin of Sherwood
as Lord Owen of Clun
1984
7.6
Firefox
as Dmitri Priabin
1982
6.0
Oliver Twist
as Monks
1982
6.6
Bergerac
as Jacques Laronde
1981
6.7
The Borgias
as Cesare Borgia
1981
8.0
The Day Christ Died
as John
1980
5.8
Henry VIII
as Earl of Surrey
1979
6.5
When the Actors Come
as Istvan
1978
0.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Istvan
1977
7.0
Space: 1999
as Spearman
1975
7.1
Caesar and Claretta
as Giacomo
1975
1.0
Churchill's People
as Trooper John Roper
1974
1.0
The Adventures of Don Quick
as Beltane
1970
5.0
Sovereign's Company
as Sender
1970
7.0
Strange Report
as Young Man
1969
6.5
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
as Curtis
1968
5.5
Callan
1967
7.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Turkish Captain
1965
5.0
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Spy
1965
3.4
Public Eye
as Removal Man
1965
7.8
Raindogs
as Duke
N/A
0.0