Ralph Cotterill
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.
The Proposition
as Dr. BantreyIn 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save...
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December Boys
as ShellbackFor many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger...
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The Chain Reaction
as GrayContaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn...
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The Lighthorsemen
as Gen. Friedrich von KressensteinPalestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to...
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Bad Boy Bubby
as PopBad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in...
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The Survivor
as SlaterWhen a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he...
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Howling III: The Marsupials
as Prof. SharpA strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who...
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Lorca and the Outlaws
as JowittJowitt, a mercenary without recluse institutes a totalitarian regime in a small mining city of...
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Burke & Wills
as Charley GrayA story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia...
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Where the Green Ants Dream
as FletcherThe Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green...
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Deathcheaters
as The Uncivil ServantTwo best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on...
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The Blue Lightning
as WordsHarry Wingate, a rugged adventurer, is hired by a gem collector to retrieve a priceless opal,...
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Ultraman Great: The Alien Invasion
as Captain Arthur GrantThe first of two compilation films for Ultraman Great (aka Ultraman: Towards the Future). Jack...
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Going Down
as Karli's fatherKarli's over the Sydney scene and its small-pond bohemian excesses. That's why she's moving to...
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Blue Fin
as HerbieBased on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an...
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Trouble in Paradise
as HughesFollowing her husband Arthur's mysterious death, Rachel Baxley packs up her life as a State...
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Hoodwink
as uncreditedHoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of...
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Resistance
as Sgt. Maj. HopwoodOver the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and...
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Alison's Birthday
as Brian HealeyDuring a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from...
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The Right Hand Man
as SamA stagecoach driver goes to work for a dying, one-armed aristocrat in 1860s Australia.
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Whipping Boy
as ShufflerA female lawyer heads a government taskforce investigating a suspected paedophile racket in...
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Shark's Paradise
as Dr. BaxterA mad man threatens to lure hundreds of sharks to the beach at Surfers Paradise Australia at the...
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Rikky and Pete
as George PottingerRikky (Nina Landis) and her brother Pete (Stephen Kearney) struggle to keep their lives from...
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Ultraman Great: The Battle for Earth
as Captain Arthur GrantThe second and final compilation films for Ultraman Great (aka Ultraman: Towards the Future)....
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To Make a Killing
as The ProfessorDamon Kennedy (Tamblyn Lord, The River Kings) is an impressionable young man ready to begin...
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Sons of Steel
as KarzoffThe film is set in Australia, where an accidental future time traveler finds himself going back...
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Wind
as SergeantAustralia, 1867. In the bleak high country, a young black tracker and his elderly sergeant...
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Ultraman - The Alien Invasion
as Arthur GrantJack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are astronauts doing research on the planet Mars. On a routine...
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This Won't Hurt a Bit
as Bank ManagerAn incompetent rogue dentist travels from Australia to the UK, where he wreaks havoc on English...
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Down Rusty Down
as Angry Old ManAn anthromorphic tale, humans representing canines, of compulsive traits and raging desires. A...
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Nice Coloured Girls
as English Voice OverNice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost...
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The Flying Doctors
as Walter McKayThe Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved...
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Halifax f.p.
as Doug CrowHalifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to...
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E Street
as Vic BakerAn Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called...
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E Street
as Rex AndersonAn Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called...
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Water Under the Bridge
as Mr. FlaggWater Under the Bridge is a 1980 mini series based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott.
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The Boy in the Bush
as Old Uncle Grantn the 1880s, Jack Grant, a young Englishman, has been sent by his parents to make a new life in...
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Ultraman: Towards the Future
as Captain Arthur GrantJack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are members of the first manned expedition to Mars, and on the...
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