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Oliver Cotton

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.

The Last Duel

2021

as Jean de Carrouges III

Wonder Woman 1984

2020

as Simon Stagg

Killing Eve

2018

as Maciek

Pylon

2017

as The Chairman

North v South

2015

as Brian Galloway

The Musketeers

2014

Gangs of Tooting Broadway

2013

Ripper Street

2012

as Daniel Goldman

The Dark Knight Rises

2012

as 2 Star Air Force General

Henry IV, Part 2 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2012

as King Henry IV

Henry IV, Part 1 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2012

as King Henry IV

Money

2010

as Lorne Guyland

Pope Joan

2009

as Arsenius

Margaret

2009

as Michael Heseltine

Attila the Hun

2008

as Actius

Hotel Babylon

2006

Colour Me Kubrick

2005

as PC Metcalf (uncredited)

New Tricks

2004

as Hugh Dryden

Murder Investigation Team

2003

as Artyom Biartoulis

Out of the Ashes

2003

as Moshe Perl

Shanghai Knights

2003

as Jack the Ripper

The Dancer Upstairs

2002

as Merino

Waking the Dead

2001

as Sir Charles Stewart

Baby Blue

2001

as Ron Wood

Beowulf

1999

as Hrothgar

The Opium War

1997

Midsomer Murders

1997

as Michael Maybury

Dalziel & Pascoe

1996

The Innocent Sleep

1996

as Lusano

Sharpe's Battle

1995

as Loup

Joseph

1995

as Architekt

Space Precinct

1994

(All Quiet on the) Preston Front

1994

as Declan

Harry

1993

as Paul Collier

Son of the Pink Panther

1993

as King Haroak

Heartbeat

1992

as Harry Adams

The Camomile Lawn

1992

as Max

Redemption

1991

as Neville Nunn

The Party

1988

as Andrew Ford

The Play on One

1988

as Andrew Ford

Hannay

1988

Hiding Out

1987

as Hit-Man

The Sicilian

1987

as Cmdr. Roccofino

Lovejoy

1986

as Frobel

Eleni

1985

as Katis

Robin of Sherwood

1984

as Lord Owen of Clun

Firefox

1982

as Dmitri Priabin

Oliver Twist

1982

as Monks

Bergerac

1981

as Jacques Laronde

The Borgias

1981

as Cesare Borgia

The Day Christ Died

1980

as John

Henry VIII

1979

as Earl of Surrey

BBC Television Shakespeare

1978

When the Actors Come

1978

as Istvan

Space: 1999

1975

as Spearman

Caesar and Claretta

1975

as Giacomo

Sovereign's Company

1970

as Sender

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

1968

as Curtis

Callan

1967

Public Eye

1965

as Removal Man

Raindogs

as Duke