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Oliver Cotton

OLIVER COTTON

  (1944 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  

Oliver Cotton was born in London, June 20, 1944, As an actor he has played leading roles at the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court Theatre, the Old Vic and in London's West end. His many TV appearances include: the Borgias (Cesare Borgia), David Copperfield, the Year of the French, the Party, Redemption, Poirot, the Camomile Lawn, Westbeach, Sharpe's Battle, Rhodes, All Quiet on the Preston Front, Innocents, Judge John Deed, Inspector Lynley, Waking the Dead, MIT, Beastly Games, Midsomer Murders. Sensitive Skin (series 1 & 2), the Commander, Margaret. and Money. 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, Rain Dogs, Colour Me Kubrick, Pope Joan. His other writing includes: Man Falling Down for Shakespeare's Globe, the Incredible Journey of Sir Frances Younghusband and the enoch Show both for the Royal Court Theatre. For the cinema he has written: Singing For Stalin', Vines' and Deadline'. For television he has written A Touch of Frost and Diamond Geezer. Oliver has recently finished a commissioned film version of 'Wet Weather Cover'.

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         Daytona         Dessert         Enoch Show, The         Incredible Journey of Sir Francis Younghusband, The         Intruder, The         Man Falling Down: A Mask Play         Scrabble         Wet Weather Cover

Daytona

Daytona
It's 1990. Joe and elli Zimmermann are in their seventies and they're getting ready to take the interstate dance competition by storm when Joe's brother, Billy, knocks on their door. It's been thirty-five years since he disappeared, gone without a trace. He tells his brother how he came across the man who killed their Father and many others in Germany during WWII, at a hotel in Daytona. He bought a gun and killed him. More leftovers surface from the past when it is revealed that elli, Joe's wife, and Billy were having an affair that lasted fifteen years, until the day he left without a trace.

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Dessert

Dessert
A British financier and his wife host a lavish dinner party for their affluent American friends. It's over a year since the two couples were together and they have plenty to talk about. The food is delicious, the conversation animated and dessert is on its way - when, from one second to another, the evening takes a sinister and alarming turn.

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Enoch Show, The

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early on, the Upstairs even attempted a kind of living newspaper called the enoch Show. every Royal Court Dramatist was invited to contribute ever-changing material to a revue about enoch Powell, who could, by coincidence, be seen every morning at Sloane Square station going to work.

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Incredible Journey of Sir Francis Younghusband, The

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Intruder, The

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 12/7

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Man Falling Down: A Mask Play

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employing the half, three quarter and full masks, used variously and traditionally in comedy and tragedy, the play humerously sets about examining the fateful fruit-eating exploits of adam and eve.

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written And devised by Jack Shepherd And Oliver Cotton

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Scrabble

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National Theatre, Jeannetta Cochrane Theatre, London     1969

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Wet Weather Cover

Wet Weather Cover
Rain. Spain. an epic movie on location. Two actors. Two egos. One leaking trailer.

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Tiffany Theatre, Los Angeles     24 Jun 1999

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