Tim Potter (born 20th century) is an English actor in film, television, and theatre since the 1980s.[1]

Career

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Stage

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Potter's stage work includes playing the role of Salvador Dalí in the original production of Terry Johnson's Hysteria at the Royal Court in 1993,[2][3] and Charles II in Stephen Jeffreys' The Libertine the following year.[4] He has appeared in productions of plays by Edward Bond, Oscar Wilde, Dario Fo, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett, Shakespeare, George Etherege and Jim Cartwright. and worked for directors including Sam Mendes, Phyllida Lloyd, Neil Bartlett, Ken Russell, Benjamin Ross, Julian Jarrold, Steven Berkoff, Max Stafford-Clark, Philip Prowse, Uberto Pasolini, Deborah Warner and Stephen Frears.[5][6]

He was a founder member, with Jim Cartwright 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 A Streetcar Named Desire and Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.[7]

Film and television

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Potter's film roles include the Ghost of Christmas Future in A Christmas Carol (1999) opposite Patrick Stewart, Chief Gentleman in The Prince and the Pauper (2000), and Captain Hook in Finding Neverland (2004), as well as roles in The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995), Entrapment (1999), Faintheart (2008), Still Life (2013), and the 1999 television movie adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1988 Salome's Last Dance Pharisee
1990 Vroom Harry
1995 The Young Poisoner's Handbook Simon
1997 Fierce Creatures Vulture Keeper
1999 Entrapment Millennium Man
Onegin Dandy 2
2000 The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz Apocalyptic nutter
2003 Cheeky Horace
2004 Finding Neverland 'Hook' / Lord Carlton
2008 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Nightclub Patron
Faintheart Headmaster
2013 Still Life Homeless Man
2015 A Royal Night Out Duty Manager

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1983 Walter Squatters' Adviser Television film
Video Stars Eric Dancer
1984 Luna Rob Episode: "A Bureaubreau in the Hand Is Worth a Pension"
Angels in the Annexe Mr. Lomax Television film
1985 Titus Andronicus Clown
Ties of Blood Cecil Episode: "The Military Wing"
1985–1986 I Woke Up One Morning Irrelevant 11 episodes
1986 Dead Head Teddy Episode: "The Patriot"
1988 Wild Things Hotel Manager Television film
1990 Blood Rights Erich 2 episodes
1992 Screen Two Mr. Bell Episode: "My Sister-Wife"
Kinsey Laurence Donegan 2 episodes
Witchcraft Sealed Knotter Episode #1.2
1993 Lovejoy Harrison Episode: "Judgement of Solomon"
1994 Minder Lionel Episode: "Bring Me the Head of Arthur Daley"
The Chief Dick Mortimer Episode #4.10
Soldier Soldier RMP Episode: "Proud Man"
1997 The Pale Horse Dr Osbourne Television film
Noah's Ark Geoffrey Winger Episode: "Family Matters"
Beyond Fear Prison Guard Television film
1998 Bramwell Crispin Episode: "Loose Women"
1999 Alice in Wonderland Knave of Hearts Television film
A Christmas Carol The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
2000 The Bill Warren Askew Episode: "Touch and Go"
The Prince and the Pauper Chief Gentleman Television film
Second Sight: Parasomnia Leonard
2001 The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells Jim / 2nd Card Player 6 episodes
Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes Bolton Episode: "The Photographer's Chair"
2002 Crime and Punishment Nikolai Television film
2003 Byron Millingen
2005 According to Bex The tog rater Episode: "Stuck in the Middle with You"
2006, 2007 Trial & Retribution Dr. Adrian Kinton 2 episodes
2014 New Tricks Bryan Fawson Episode: "Bermondsey Boy"

References

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  1. ^ "Tim Potter | BFI". Explore.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  2. ^ "Theatre – from the Tablet Archive". Archive.thetablet.co.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  3. ^ Robert Hanks (2 December 1995). "THEATRE Hysteria, Duke of York's, WC2 - Arts and Entertainment". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  4. ^ Paul Taylor (12 December 1994). "The Rake's Progress - Arts and Entertainment". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  5. ^ "Tim Potter – IMDb". imdb.com. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  6. ^ "Tim Potter". Theatricalia. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  7. ^ Milling, Jane (25 October 2012). Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations – Google Books. ISBN 9781408157107. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
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