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Robert Coote
Acting
Biography
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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 mem…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Institute for Revenge
as Wellington
Filming Othello
Theatre of Blood
as Oliver Larding
Up the Front
as General Burke
Charley's Aunt
as Col. Sir Francis Chesney
Prudence and the Pill
as Henry Hardcastle
Kenner
The Cool Ones
as Stanley Krum
The Swinger
as Sir Hubert Charles
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as The Red King
TV Shows
Nero Wolfe
as Theodore Horstmann · 14 ep.
$weepstake$
as Butler · 1 ep.
The Whitehall Worrier
7 ep.
BBC Play of the Month
as Mr. Eager · 1 ep.
The Rogues
as Timmy St. Clair · 30 ep.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self · 1 ep.
Rawhide
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as Terry · 1 ep.
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Sir Archibald Bruern · 1 ep.
Lux Video Theatre
as Lawton · 1 ep.
