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.
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Films (39)
Tales of the Underworld
2026 · Flowers
Clancy Sigal: Hollywood Blacklist to 'A' List
2023 · Interviewee
Le Dernier Duel
2021 · Jean de Carrouges III
Mujer Maravilla 1984
2020 · Simon Stagg
Pylon
2017 · The Chairman
North v South
2015 · Brian Galloway
Gangs of Tooting Broadway
2013
L'ascension du chevalier noir
2012 · 2 Star Air Force General
Henry IV, Part 2 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2012 · King Henry IV
Henry IV, Part 1 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2012 · King Henry IV
La Papesse Jeanne
2009 · Arsenius
Margaret
2009 · Michael Heseltine
Attila the Hun
2008 · Actius
Appelez-moi Kubrick
2005 · PC Metcalf (uncredited)
Out of the Ashes
2003 · Moshe Perl
Shanghaï Kid II
2003 · Jack the Ripper
Dancer Upstairs
2002 · Merino
Baby Blue
2001 · Ron Wood
Beowulf
1999 · Hrothgar
The Innocent Sleep
1996 · Lusano
Sharpe's Battle
1995 · Brigadier General Guy Loup
Joseph
1995 · Architect
Son of the Pink Panther
1993 · King Haroak
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
1992 · Harana
Redemption
1991 · Neville Nunn
The Party
1988 · Andrew Ford
Hiding Out
1987 · Hit-Man
The Sicilian
1987 · Cmdr. Roccofino
Eleni
1985 · Katis
Firefox
1982 · Dmitri Priabin
Oliver Twist
1982 · Monks
The Day Christ Died
1980 · John
Henry VIII
1979 · Earl of Surrey
When the Actors Come
1978 · Istvan
The Madness: Scenes from the Spanish Civil War
1976 · Jesus Hernandez
Caesar and Claretta
1975 · Giacomo
Sovereign's Company
1970 · Sender
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
1968 · Curtis
Raindogs
· Duke
Séries (36)
Un juego de caballeros
2020 · Creator
Killing Eve
2018 · Maciek
The Musketeers
2014
Ripper Street
2012 · Daniel Goldman
Money
2010 · Lorne Guyland
Hotel Babylon
2006 · Mr. Dovic
Sensitive Skin
2005 · Sam
New Tricks
2004 · Hugh Dryden
Division Enquêtes Criminelles
2003 · Artyom Biartoulis
Waking the Dead
2001 · Sir Charles Stewart
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Michael Maybury
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Keith Henshaw
Space Precinct
1994 · Tylan Gershom
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
1994 · Declan
Harry
1993 · Paul Collier
Sharpe
1993 · Loup
Westbeach
1993 · Alan Cromer
Heartbeat
1992 · Harry Adams
The Camomile Lawn
1992 · Max
The Play on One
1988 · Andrew Ford
Hannay
1988
David Copperfield
1986 · Edward Murdstone
Lovejoy
1986 · Frobel
Robin of Sherwood
1984 · Lord Owen of Clun
Bergerac
1981 · Jacques Laronde
The Borgias
1981 · Cesare Borgia
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · Istvan
Space: 1999
1975 · Spearman
Churchill's People
1974 · Trooper John Roper
Second City Firsts
1973 · Cyril
The Adventures of Don Quick
1970 · Beltane
Strange Report
1969 · Young Man
Callan
1967
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Turkish Captain
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Spy
Public Eye
1965 · Removal Man