Oliver Cotton
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.
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The Last Duel
as Jean de Carrouges IIIKing Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire,...
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Joseph
as ArchitektJoseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous...
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Shanghai Knights
as Jack the RipperWhen a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make...
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Firefox
as Dmitri PriabinThe Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the...
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Son of the Pink Panther
as King HaroakThe illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.
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Beowulf
as HrothgarBeowulf is a wanderer who learns about a man-eating creature called Grendel, which comes in the...
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The Sicilian
as Cmdr. RoccofinoEgocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while...
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Pope Joan
as ArseniusA 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself...
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The Dancer Upstairs
as MerinoA police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary...
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Colour Me Kubrick
as PC Metcalf (uncredited)The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's...
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Out of the Ashes
as Moshe PerlThe real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious...
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Oliver Twist
as MonksThe classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be...
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Hiding Out
as Hit-ManA very successful stock broker is called to court to testify against a mob boss who was into...
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The Opium War
as Gordon BremerThe story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the...
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Eleni
as KatisNick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years...
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North v South
as Brian GallowayFor decades the criminal underworlds of the North and South bumped along begrudgingly. Like the...
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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
as CurtisJamie McGregor is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local...
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Sharpe's Battle
as LoupWhen Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces...
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Redemption
as Neville NunnAfter 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister...
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The Day Christ Died
as JohnA dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the...
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The Innocent Sleep
as LusanoInspired by the 1982 Roberto Calvi Affair in which an Italian banker was found hanging from a...
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Caesar and Claretta
as Giacomo'Caesar and Claretta' dramatises the last few hours in the lives of Benito Mussolini (El Duce,...
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Henry IV, Part 1 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
as King Henry IVPrince Hal, son of King Henry IV, seems to be squandering his life away with the fat knight Sir...
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Henry VIII
as Earl of SurreyHenry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen...
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Henry IV, Part 2 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
as King Henry IVHotspur is dead and Prince Hal has proved his mettle on the battlefield, but King Henry IV lies...
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Margaret
as Michael HeseltineA detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics...
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The Party
as Andrew Ford10 May 1968. In Paris the barricades are about to burst into flames as students and police...
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Attila the Hun
as Actius(History Channel) A marauding barbarian with a reputation as one of history's monsters, even...
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Gangs of Tooting Broadway
as uncreditedTooting Broadway is an urban crime drama set in 2009, whose South London location lends a gritty...
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When the Actors Come
as IstvanOn a cold day in January 1850, a group of travelling actors arrive out of the snow at the remote...
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Midsomer Murders
as Michael MayburyThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...
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New Tricks
as Hugh DrydenNew Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and...
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Bergerac
as Jacques LarondeBergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...
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Waking the Dead
as Sir Charles StewartA detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Heartbeat
as Harry AdamsSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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Ripper Street
as Daniel GoldmanA drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The...
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Killing Eve
as MaciekA security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go...
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Space: 1999
as SpearmanThe crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon...
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Callan
as uncreditedCallan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage....
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Public Eye
as Removal ManPublic Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC...
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The Musketeers
as uncreditedSet in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an...
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Lovejoy
as FrobelThe adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...
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The BBC Television Shakespeare
as uncreditedThe BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...
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Dalziel & Pascoe
as uncreditedBritish crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in...
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Robin of Sherwood
as Lord Owen of ClunRobin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by...
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Hotel Babylon
as uncreditedHotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen...
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Murder Investigation Team
as Artyom BiartoulisMurder Investigation Team is a British police procedural drama series produced by the ITV...
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Space Precinct
as uncreditedSpace Precinct is a British television series that aired from 1994 to 1995 on Sky One and later...
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Hannay
as uncreditedHannay was a 1988 spin-off from the 1978 film version of John Buchan's novel The Thirty-Nine...
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(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
as DeclanAll Quiet on the Preston Front (or the shortened Preston Front as it became known for series two...
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The Play on One
as Andrew FordA series of plays specially written for television.
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Strange Report
as Young ManStrange Report is a British television Adam Strange, a retired Home Office criminologist,...
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Harry
as Paul CollierHarry is a television drama series that was made by Union Pictures for the BBC, and shown on BBC...
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The Camomile Lawn
as MaxThe Camomile Lawn is British adaptation of the Mary Wesley's classic novel that aired on Channel...
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Money
as Lorne GuylandA two-part adaptation of Martin Amis's cult '80s novel with Nick Frost as John Self, a...
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The Borgias
as Cesare BorgiaA a serial in ten parts on the lives of one of the most intriguing families in history.
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