Ron Cook

Born: 1948-12-01

Ronald G. Cook (born 1 December 1948) is an English actor. He has been active in film, television and theatre since the 1970s. Cook was born in 1948 in South Shields, County Durham, the son of a school cook and a car worker. When he was 6, his family moved to Coventry; he went to Wyken Croft Junior School and then Caludon Castle School and is a graduate of Rose Bruford College.


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as Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Released: 2021-12-22

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe...

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as George Merchant
Released: 2007-02-14

Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the...

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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

as Mews
Released: 1989-10-13

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her...

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The Critic

as Hugh Morris
Released: 2024-09-13

Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he...

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Thunderbirds

as Parker
Released: 2004-07-23

Dangerous missions are the bread and butter of the Thunderbirds, a high-tech secret force...

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Quills

as Napoleon
Released: 2000-11-22

A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful...

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102 Dalmatians

as Mr. Button
Released: 2000-10-07

Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are...

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Chocolat

as Alphonse Marceau
Released: 2000-12-22

A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town,...

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Empire of Light

as Mr. Cooper
Released: 2022-12-09

The duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a...

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The Merchant of Venice

as Old Gobbo
Released: 2004-12-03

Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum...

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Land of the Blind

as Doc
Released: 2006-05-01

A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow...

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Secrets & Lies

as Stuart
Released: 1996-05-24

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth...

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24 Hour Party People

as Derek Ryder
Released: 2002-02-13

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for...

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Charlotte Gray

as Mirabel
Released: 2001-12-28

This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Barrymore
Released: 2002-12-26

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called in to unravel a mysterious curse that has plagued the...

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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

as Clement Smith
Released: 2009-02-28

After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already...

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The Other Boleyn Girl

as Thomas Cromwell
Released: 2003-03-28

Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a fictionalised...

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Topsy-Turvy

as Richard D'Oyly Carte
Released: 1999-12-15

After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship...

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Hornblower: Loyalty

as Steward James Doughty
Released: 2003-01-05

Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping...

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Mrs Biggs

as Peter
Released: 2012-09-05

The true story of Charmian Biggs (née Powell), the rebellious product of a strict 1950s...

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Confetti

as Sam's Dad
Released: 2006-05-05

A mockumentary that follows three couples as they battle it out to win the coveted title of...

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Hornblower: Duty

as Steward James Doughty
Released: 2003-01-06

Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship...

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Lucky Break

as Perry
Released: 2001-08-24

Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets...

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Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

as Peter Eade
Released: 2006-03-16

Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a...

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The Tragedy of Richard III

as Richard III
Released: 1983-01-23

Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the...

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Scandalous

as 3rd Taxi Driver
Released: 1984-01-29

An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with...

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Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

as Lord Charlie Hill
Released: 2008-05-27

The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's.

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On a Clear Day

as Norman
Released: 2005-08-18

After decades of laboring as a Glasgow shipbuilder, Frank Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old...

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

as Peter Simple
Released: 1982-12-28

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a...

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Sharpe's Honour

as Napoleon Bonaparte
Released: 1994-06-08

1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely...

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18% Grey

as Charlie
Released: 2020-01-24

When his wife leaves him, struggling Bulgarian photographer Zack sets out on a wild trip from...

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Number One

as 'The Wasp'
Released: 1985-03-01

A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.

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Bert & Dickie

as Albert
Released: 2012-07-25

Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell...

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Grenfell: Scenes from the Inquiry

as Richard Millett QC
Released: 2022-06-12

Grenfell sets out to discover why the devastating fire of 14 June 2017 happened after the...

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Sew Torn

as Oskar
Released: 2024-03-10

A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone...

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Henry VI Part 3

as Richard, Duke of Gloucester
Released: 1983-01-16

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

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Henry VI Part 1

as Third Messinger to the King / Countess' Porter
Released: 1983-01-02

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

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Henry VI Part 2

as Richard Plantagenet
Released: 1983-01-09

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

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Secrets of a Superstud

as Telegram Boy
Released: 1976-07-19

In this silly soft-core sex comedy, Tony Kenyon is Custer Firkeshaw, the owner of a girlie...

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Time Gentlemen, Please

as The Good Chap
Released: 2010-09-24

A would-be publican decides to set up shop on a remote island with a flat-pack DIY pub, but...

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National Theatre Live: King Lear

as The Fool
Released: 2011-02-03

An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into...

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The Magic Shop

as uncredited
Released: 1982-02-05

A father and son enter a magic shop that may contain real magic.

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Le Journal d'Anne Frank

as Hermann Van Daan
Released: 2009-01-01

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Midsomer Murders

as Bernard Flack
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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Doctor Who

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-03-26

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...

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Doctor Who

as Magpie
First aired: 2005-03-26

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...

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Death in Paradise

as Bill Calder
First aired: 2011-10-25

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling...

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The Witcher

as Borch Three Jackdaws
First aired: 2019-12-20

Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent...

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Vera

as Brian Gower
First aired: 2011-05-01

A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England,...

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Chernobyl

as Old Maternity Doctor
First aired: 2019-05-06

The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear...

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Star Wars: Andor

as Willi
First aired: 2022-09-21

In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference...

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Inside No. 9

as Wilf
First aired: 2014-02-05

An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

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Waking the Dead

as Dr. Milan Vaspovic
First aired: 2001-06-18

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

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Blackadder

as Sean, the Irish
First aired: 1983-06-15

Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders...

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Bergerac

as Reggie Betts
First aired: 1981-10-18

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...

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The Young Ones

as Convict
First aired: 1982-11-09

The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the...

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The Bill

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-10-16

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the...

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Hornblower

as Doughty
First aired: 1998-10-07

Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman,...

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Doctor Who Confidential

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-03-26

Doctor Who Confidential is a documentary series created by the British Broadcasting Corporation...

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The Odyssey

as Eurybates
First aired: 1997-05-18

In this adaptation of Homer's timeless epic, Armand Assante stars as Odysseus, the warrior King...

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Mr Selfridge

as Mr. Crabb
First aired: 2013-01-06

Mr. Selfridge recounts the real life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of...

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Les Misérables

as Hair and Teeth Dealer
First aired: 2018-12-30

France, 1815. Jean Valjean, a common thief, is released from prison after having lived a hell in...

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The Detectives

as Blind Billy
First aired: 1993-01-27

The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence -...

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BBC Television Shakespeare

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-12-03

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...

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Maigret

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-02-09

Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the...

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Bramwell

as Percy Banks
First aired: 1995-05-01

The story of Eleanor Bramwell , a pioneering female doctor in the late nineteenth century, and...

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The Diary of Anne Frank

as Hermann Van Daan
First aired: 2009-01-05

Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her...

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Little Dorrit

as uncredited
First aired: 2008-10-26

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who...

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Garrow's Law

as Captain Baillie
First aired: 2009-11-01

The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the...

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Des

as DSI Chambers
First aired: 2020-09-14

The story of one of the most infamous cases in UK criminal history, that of serial killer Dennis...

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The Singing Detective

as First Mysterious Man
First aired: 1986-11-16

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective...

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Funland

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-10-23

Funland is a comedy thriller serial, produced by the BBC, about a detective who arrives in...

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Red Riding

as uncredited
First aired: 2009-03-12

Thrilling trilogy of films based on David Peace's cult noir novels about Yorkshire during the...

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The City and the City

as Commissar Gadlem
First aired: 2018-04-06

When the body of a foreign student is discovered in the streets of the down-at-heel city of...

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Personal Affairs

as uncredited
First aired: 2009-06-16

Personal Affairs was a 2009 British television drama-comedy series, broadcast on BBC Three. It...

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The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

as Benjamin Partridge
First aired: 1997-11-09

Adaptation of the classic novel by Henry Fielding chronicling the life, loves and adventures of...

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He Knew He Was Right

as Mr. Bozzle
First aired: 2004-04-18

He Knew He Was Right was a 2004 BBC TV adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel He Knew He Was...

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Life After Life

as Dr. Fellowes
First aired: 2022-04-19

If you could live your life time and again, would you ever get it right? Ursula dies and is...

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Casanova

as Prisoner
First aired: 2005-03-13

Castle Dux, Bohemia, 1798. Casanova, now a penniless librarian in his seventies, tells Edith, a...

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The Lost Prince

as Lloyd George
First aired: 2003-01-19

The life of Prince John, youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary, who died at...

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Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

as uncredited
First aired: 2003-09-04

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television...

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Girls On Top

as Ian
First aired: 1985-10-23

Four girls share a flat together in London. Having nothing in common aside from their gender,...

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

as Durdles
First aired: 2012-01-10

Choirmaster John Jasper is obsessed with his nephew's fiancé. Will he take his opportunity to...

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10 Days to War

as Peter
First aired: 2008-03-10

A series of short dramas about the countdown to war in Iraq.

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Life of Shakespeare

as Jack Rice
First aired: 1978-06-13

Biography of William Shakespeare.

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Will Shakespeare

as Jack Rice
First aired: 1978-06-13

Will Shakespeare, also known as Life of Shakespeare and William Shakespeare: His Life & Times,...

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