Robert Coote

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1909-02-04 (73 years old)

Deathday

1982-11-26

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Robert Coote

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Coote (4 February 1909 – 26 November 1982) was an English actor. He played aristocrats or British military types in many films, and created the role of Colonel Hugh Pickering in the long-running original Broadway production of My Fair Lady. Coote was born in London and educated at Hurstpierpoint College in Sussex. He began his stage career at the age of 16, performing in Britain, South Africa, and Australia before arriving in Hollywood in the late 1930s. He played a succession of pompous British types in supporting roles, including a brief but memorable turn as Sgt. Bertie Higginbotham in Gunga D...

Acting

1947

Lured

as Detective Wilson

1947

1939

Gunga Din

as Bertie Higginbotham

1946

1952

The Prisoner of Zenda

as Fritz von Tarlenheim

1973

Theatre of Blood

as Oliver Larding

1948

Berlin Express

as Sterling

1949

The Red Danube

as Brigadier C.M.V. Catlock

1958

The Horse's Mouth

as Sir William Beeder

1963

The V.I.P.s

as John Coburn

1960

1951

Othello

as Roderigo

1939

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

as Rollo Venables

1958

Merry Andrew

as Dudley Larabee

1968

Prudence and the Pill

as Henry Hardcastle

1966

The Swinger

as Sir Hubert Charles

1942

1938

A Yank at Oxford

as Wavertree

1947

Forever Amber

as Sir Thomas Dudley

1940

Vigil in the Night

as Dr. Caley

1952

The Merry Widow

as Marquis De Crillon

1967

The Cool Ones

as Stanley Krum

1966

A Man Could Get Killed

as Hatton / Jones

1939

Bad Lands

as Eaton

1940

1968

1938

Blond Cheat

as Gilbert Potts

1952

Scaramouche

as Gaston Binet

1947

The Exile

as Dick Pinner

1951

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

as British Medical Officer

1931

Sally in Our Alley

as Waiter At Party

1939

The House of Fear

as Robert Morton

1939

1951

Soldiers Three

as Maj. Mercer

1969

Charley's Aunt

as Col. Sir Francis Chesney

1937

The Sheik Steps Out

as Lord Eustace Byington

1936

Rangle River

as Reggie Mannister, Flight-Lieutenant

1933

Loyalties

as Robert

1955

The Constant Husband

as The Best Man

1943

Forever and a Day

as Blind Officer

1956

The Swan

as Capt. Wunderlich

1946

1979

1950

The Elusive Pimpernel

as Sir Andrew ffoulkes

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