Oliver Cotton

Actor Jun 20 (age 81) London, England, UK 1965–2026 (61 year career)

6.1 avg rating

Biography

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…

Known For

Film

The Dark Knight Rises

2 Star Air Force General

Film

The Last Duel

Jean de Carrouges III

Film

Wonder Woman 1984

Simon Stagg

Film

Shanghai Knights

Jack the Ripper

Film

Joseph

Architekt

Film

Pope Joan

Arsenius

Film

Firefox

Dmitri Priabin

Film

The Sicilian

Cmdr. Roccofino

Filmography

Acting (70)

Movies (39)

Tales of the Underworld

2026

as Flowers

Clancy Sigal: Hollywood Blacklist to 'A' List

2023

as Interviewee

The Last Duel

2021

as Jean de Carrouges III

Wonder Woman 1984

as Simon Stagg

Pylon

as The Chairman

North v South

2015

as Brian Galloway

5.1

Gangs of Tooting Broadway

2013

6.0

The Dark Knight Rises

2012

as 2 Star Air Force General

7.8

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

2012

as King Henry IV

10.0

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

as King Henry IV

Pope Joan

as Arsenius

Margaret

as Michael Heseltine

Attila the Hun

as Actius

Colour Me Kubrick

as PC Metcalf (uncredited)

Shanghai Knights

as Jack the Ripper

Out of the Ashes

as Moshe Perl

The Dancer Upstairs

as Merino

Baby Blue

as Ron Wood

Beowulf

as Hrothgar

The Opium War

as Gordon Bremer

The Innocent Sleep

as Lusano

Joseph

as Architekt

Sharpe's Battle

as Loup

Son of the Pink Panther

1993

as King Haroak

4.6

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

1992

as Harana

4.7

Redemption

1991

as Neville Nunn

The Party

1988

as Andrew Ford

The Sicilian

as Cmdr. Roccofino

Hiding Out

as Hit-Man

Eleni

as Katis

Firefox

as Dmitri Priabin

Oliver Twist

as Monks

The Day Christ Died

as John

Henry VIII

as Earl of Surrey

When the Actors Come

as Istvan

Caesar and Claretta

as Giacomo

Sovereign's Company

as Sender

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

1968

as Curtis

5.5

Raindogs

as Duke

Television (31)

Killing Eve

as Maciek

The Musketeers

Ripper Street

as Daniel Goldman

Money

as Lorne Guyland

Hotel Babylon

New Tricks

as Hugh Dryden

Murder Investigation Team

2003

as Artyom Biartoulis

6.3

Waking the Dead

2001

as Sir Charles Stewart

Midsomer Murders

as Michael Maybury

Dalziel & Pascoe

Space Precinct

as Tylan Gershom

(All Quiet on the) Preston Front

as Declan

Harry

as Paul Collier

Heartbeat

as Harry Adams

The Camomile Lawn

as Max

Hannay

The Play on One

as Andrew Ford

Lovejoy

as Frobel

David Copperfield

as Edward Murdstone

Robin of Sherwood

as Lord Owen of Clun

Bergerac

as Jacques Laronde

The Borgias

as Cesare Borgia

BBC2 Play of the Week

as Istvan

Space: 1999

as Spearman

Churchill's People

as Trooper John Roper

1.0

The Adventures of Don Quick

as Beltane

Strange Report

as Young Man

Callan

BBC Play of the Month

as Turkish Captain

Public Eye

as Removal Man

Thirty-Minute Theatre

1965

as Spy

3.4