Ron Cook

ActorCrew Dec 1 (age 77) South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK 1976–2025 (49 year career)

6.8 avg rating

Biography

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.

Known For

Film

Hot Fuzz

George Merchant

Film

The King's Man

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

Film

Chocolat

Alphonse Marceau

Film

Secrets & Lies

Stuart

Film

The Odyssey

Eurybates

Film

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Mews

Film

Quills

Napoleon

Film

The Merchant of Venice

Old Gobbo

Filmography

Acting (99)

Movies (52)

The Choral

as Reverend Woodhead

Sew Torn

as Oskar

The Critic

as Hugh Morris

Empire of Light

as Mr. Cooper

Grenfell: Scenes from the Inquiry

2022

as Richard Millett QC

The King's Man

2021

as Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

18% Grey

as Charlie

Bert & Dickie

as Albert

Mrs Biggs

as Peter

National Theatre Live: King Lear

2011

as The Fool

7.0

Time Gentlemen, Please

2010

as The Good Chap

10.0

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

2009

as Clement Smith

6.9

The Diary of Anne Frank

2009

as Hermann Van Daan

8.0

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

as Lord Charlie Hill

Hot Fuzz

as George Merchant

Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

as Peter Eade

Confetti

as Sam's Dad

Land of the Blind

as Doc

On a Clear Day

as Norman

The Merchant of Venice

as Old Gobbo

Thunderbirds

as Parker

No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds

2004

as Self

Hornblower: Duty

2003

as Steward James Doughty

7.2

Hornblower: Loyalty

2003

as Steward James Doughty

7.1

The Other Boleyn Girl

2003

as Thomas Cromwell

7.3

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Barrymore

24 Hour Party People

as Derek

Fields of Gold

as Dave McArdle

Dead Gorgeous

as Hector

Charlotte Gray

as Mirabel

Lucky Break

as Perry

Chocolat

as Alphonse Marceau

Quills

as Napoleon

102 Dalmatians

as Mr. Button

Topsy-Turvy

as Richard D'Oyly Carte

6.6

Let the Good Times Roll

1998

as Drug Dealer

The Odyssey

as Eurybates

Secrets & Lies

as Stuart

Sharpe's Honour

as Napoleon Bonaparte

6.6

Turbulence

1991

as Harry

The Fool

1990

7.0

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

1989

as Mews

7.3

Day To Remember

1986

as Graham

Number One

as 'The Wasp'

Scandalous

as 3rd Taxi Driver

Henry VI Part 3

as Richard, Duke of Gloucester

7.0

Henry VI Part 2

1983

as Richard Plantagenet

7.0

The Tragedy of Richard III

1983

as Richard III

6.0

Henry VI Part 1

1983

as Third Messinger to the King / Countess' Porter

7.5

The Merry Wives of Windsor

1982

as Peter Simple

8.0

The Magic Shop

1982

Secrets of a Superstud

1976

as Telegram Boy

2.8

Television (47)

The Hack

as Max Mosley

I Fought the Law

as Frank Cook MP

Andor

as Willi

Life After Life

as Dr. Fellowes

Des

as DSI Chambers

The Witcher

as Borch Three Jackdaws

7.9

Chernobyl

2019

as Old Maternity Doctor

8.7

Les Misérables

2018

as Hair and Teeth Dealer

7.3

The City and the City

as Commissar Gadlem

Inside No. 9

as Wilf

Mr Selfridge

as Mr. Crabb

Mrs Biggs

as Peter

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

as Durdles

Death in Paradise

as Bill Calder

Vera

as Brian Gower

The Diary of Anne Frank

as Hermann Van Daan

Personal Affairs

as Bernie Lerner

Red Riding

Garrow's Law

as Captain Baillie

Little Dorrit

as Chivery

10 Days to War

as Peter

Doctor Who

as Magpie

Doctor Who Confidential

Funland

Funland

as Hitman

Casanova

as Prisoner

He Knew He Was Right

as Mr. Bozzle

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

The Lost Prince

as Lloyd George

Foyle's War

as Eddie Baker

Waking the Dead

as Dr. Milan Vaspovic

Hornblower

as Doughty

Midsomer Murders

as Bernard Flack

The Odyssey

as Eurybates

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

1997

as Benjamin Partridge

Bramwell

as Percy Banks

The Detectives

as Blind Billy

Maigret

The Chief

as James Baddeley

The Singing Detective

1986

as First Mysterious Man

Girls On Top

as Ian

The Bill

Blackadder

as Sean, the Irish

The Young Ones

as Convict

Bergerac

as Reggie Betts

Life of Shakespeare

as Jack Rice

Will Shakespeare

1978

as Jack Rice

10.0

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Time Gentlemen, Please

2010

Thanks

10.0