The Upturned Glass

Beware of Pity

I See a Dark Stranger

What's the Next Job?

The Way to the Stars

Don't Take It to Heart

The Gentle Sex

Pastor Hall

The Young and the Guilty

The Right Person

Peter Cotes (19 March 1912 – 10 November 1998) was an English director, producer, actor, writer and production manager.
Cotes was born as Sydney Boulting in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His brothers John and Roy Boulting became noted film makers. He began as an actor, before concentrating on theatre production. He was the original director of the world's longest-running production The Mousetrap, still playing at the St Martins Theatre, London. He wrote several books, including an acclaimed biography of Charlie Chaplin in 1951.
Cotes travelled to Australia in 1961 to direct some television plays. He was fired during the filming of Bitter Harvest.
He was twice married: Myfanwy Jones (marriage annulled) and Joan Miller (widowed 1988). He died from natural causes in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, aged 86.

Peter Cotes