Ralph Cotterill

Born: 1932-03-26

Ralph Cotterill (March 26, 1932 - May 7, 2023) was a British-born Australian character actor. He arrived in Australia in 1973 while touring with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He went on to have a long a career in Australia, both on stage and screen.


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The Proposition

as Dr. Bantrey
Released: 2005-10-06

In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save...

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Howling III: The Marsupials

as Prof. Sharp
Released: 1987-05-15

A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who...

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The Chain Reaction

as Gray
Released: 1980-09-25

Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn...

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Bad Boy Bubby

as Pop
Released: 1993-09-01

Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in...

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Where the Green Ants Dream

as Fletcher
Released: 1984-08-31

The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green...

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Burke & Wills

as Charley Gray
Released: 1985-10-30

A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia...

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The Lighthorsemen

as Gen. Friedrich von Kressenstein
Released: 1987-09-10

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in...

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December Boys

as Shellback
Released: 2007-09-14

For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger...

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The Survivor

as Slater
Released: 1981-07-09

When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he...

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This Won't Hurt a Bit

as Bank Manager
Released: 1993-11-12

An incompetent rogue dentist travels from Australia to the UK, where he wreaks havoc on English...

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The Blue Lightning

as Words
Released: 1986-05-07

Harry Wingate, a rugged adventurer, is hired by a gem collector to retrieve a priceless opal,...

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Alison's Birthday

as Brian Healey
Released: 1981-05-01

During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from...

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Rikky and Pete

as George Pottinger
Released: 1988-06-09

Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small...

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Deathcheaters

as The Uncivil Servant
Released: 1976-12-16

Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on...

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Shark's Paradise

as Dr. Baxter
Released: 1986-03-13

A mad man threatens to lure hundreds of sharks to the beach at Surfers Paradise Australia at the...

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Trouble in Paradise

as Hughes
Released: 1989-05-16

Following her husband Arthur's mysterious death, Rachel Baxley packs up her life as a State...

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Nice Coloured Girls

as English Voice Over
Released: 1987-06-01

Nice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost...

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Ultraman Great: The Alien Invasion

as Captain Arthur Grant
Released: 1990-09-25

The first of two compilation films for Ultraman Great (aka Ultraman: Towards the Future). Jack...

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Hoodwink

as uncredited
Released: 1981-11-05

Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of...

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Lorca and the Outlaws

as Jowitt
Released: 1984-12-13

Jowitt, a mercenary without recluse institutes a totalitarian regime in a small mining city of...

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Resistance

as Sgt. Maj. Hopwood
Released: 1992-01-01

Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and...

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Going Down

as Karli's father
Released: 1983-07-01

Karli's over the Sydney scene and its small-pond bohemian excesses. That's why she's moving to...

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Sons of Steel

as Karzoff
Released: 1989-06-18

The film is set in Australia, where an accidental future time traveler finds himself going back...

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Ultraman Great: The Battle for Earth

as Captain Arthur Grant
Released: 1990-09-26

The second and final compilation films for Ultraman Great (aka Ultraman: Towards the Future)....

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Blue Fin

as Herbie
Released: 1978-12-01

Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an...

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Whipping Boy

as Shuffler
Released: 1996-11-11

A female lawyer heads a government taskforce investigating a suspected paedophile racket in...

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The Right Hand Man

as Sam
Released: 1987-10-02

A stagecoach driver goes to work for a dying, one-armed aristocrat in 1860s Australia.

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Ultraman - The Alien Invasion

as Arthur Grant
Released: 1993-02-01

Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are astronauts doing research on the planet Mars. On a routine...

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Wind

as Sergeant
Released: 1999-01-01

Australia, 1867. In the bleak high country, a young black tracker and his elderly sergeant...

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To Make a Killing

as The Professor
Released: 1988-12-01

Damon Kennedy (Tamblyn Lord, The River Kings) is an impressionable young man ready to begin...

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Down Rusty Down

as Angry Old Man
Released: 1997-10-21

An anthromorphic tale, humans representing canines, of compulsive traits and raging desires. A...

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My Brother Tom

as Dorman Walker
Released: 1986-09-22

Set in Australia, against the backdrop of World War II, this epic miniseries centers on the...

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E Street

as Rex Anderson
First aired: 1989-01-24

An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called...

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E Street

as Vic Baker
First aired: 1989-01-24

An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called...

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The Flying Doctors

as Walter McKay
First aired: 1986-05-15

The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved...

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Rafferty's Rules

as Ken Parker
First aired: 1987-02-12

Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the...

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Halifax f.p.

as Doug Crow
First aired: 1994-10-09

Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to...

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Water Under the Bridge

as Mr. Flagg
First aired: 1980-09-25

Water Under the Bridge is a 1980 mini series based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott.

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Ultraman: Towards the Future

as Captain Arthur Grant
First aired: 1990-09-25

Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are members of the first manned expedition to Mars, and on the...

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The Boy in the Bush

as Old Uncle Grant
First aired: 1984-02-09

n the 1880s, Jack Grant, a young Englishman, has been sent by his parents to make a new life in...

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