Tim Potter (born Nottingam, 1959) is an English actor in film, television, and theatre since the 1980s.

Career

Stage

Potter's stage work includes playing the role of

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in the original production of Terry Johnson's ''

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'' at the

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in 1993, and Charles II in

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' '' The Libertine'' the following year. He has appeared in productions of plays by

Edward Bond Thomas Edward Bond (18 July 1934 – 3 March 2024) was an English playwright, theatre director, poet, dramatic theorist and screenwriter. He was the author of some 50 plays, among them '' Saved'' (1965), the production of which was instrument ...

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwright ...

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and

Jim Cartwright Jim Cartwright (born 27 June 1958) is an English dramatist, born in Municipal Borough of Farnworth, Farnworth, Lancashire. Cartwright's first play, Road (play), ''Road'', won a number of awards before being adapted for TV and broadcast by the B ...

. and worked for directors including

Sam Mendes Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was Knight Bachelor, knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours ...

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, Neil Bartlett,

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, Benjamin Ross,

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, Philip Prowse,

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and

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. He was a founder member, with

and Louis Mellis of Acme Acting, a theatre company which performed plays in domestic homes, using the whole house, with the audience following the actors room to room. His roles included Blanche DuBois in ''

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'' and Col. Kurtz in ''

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''.

Film and television

Potter's film roles include the

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in ''

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'' (1999) opposite

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, Chief Gentleman in '' The Prince and the Pauper'' (2000), and

Captain Hook Captain James Hook is the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play ''Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up'' and its various adaptations, in which he is Peter Pan's archenemy. The character is a pirate captain of the br ...

in '' Finding Neverland'' (2004), as well as roles in '' The Young Poisoner's Handbook'' (1995), ''

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'' (1999), ''

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'' (2008), ''

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'' (2013), and the 1999 television movie adaptation of ''

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''.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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