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person_profile-Robert Coote

Robert Coote Died at age: 73

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Robert Coote

Date of Birth:

Feb 04, 1909

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Nov 26, 1982

Biography of

Robert Coote

    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 Din (1939). His acting career was interrupted by his service as a squadron leader in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He played Bob Trubshawe in Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946), chosen for the first-ever Royal Film Performance on 1 November 1946, before he returned to Hollywood, where his films included The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Forever Amber (1947), The Three Musketeers (1948), and Orson Welles' Othello (1952).

    In 1956, Coote created the role of Colonel Pickering in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady (1956–62), which he reprised in the musical's 1976–77 Broadway revival. He also originated the role of King Pellinore in the Broadway production of Camelot (1960–63). He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance as Timmy St. Clair in the NBC TV series The Rogues (1964–65). In 1966, Coote appeared with Jackie Gleason and Art Carney in an episode of The Honeymooners entitled "The Honeymooners in England", broadcast on CBS-TV from Miami.

    In his last feature film performance, Coote portrayed one of the critics dispatched by Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood (1973).

    His final role was on television, playing orchid nurse Theodore Horstmann in the 1981 NBC-TV series Nero Wolfe, starring William Conrad in the title role. In most film and TV adaptations of Nero Wolfe mysteries, before and since, Horstmann has been a very minor character, but Coote's Horstmann got considerable screen time in the series.

    The veteran British character actor died in his sleep at the New York Athletic Club in November 1982, at the age of 73.

    Coote was a close friend of actor David Niven, sharing a house with Niven for a time in the late 1930s and living in a flat over Niven's garage for several years after the Second World War.

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Robert Coote

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Filmography of

Robert Coote

Found 47 Movies in total

... 1978

Theatre of Blood

Oliver Larding ( Actor )

... 1973

Prudence and the Pill

Henry Hardcastle ( Actor )

... 1968

Kenner

Actor

... 1968

The Cool Ones

Stanley Krum ( Actor )

... 1967

The Swinger

Sir Hubert Charles ( Actor )

... 1966

Alice Through the Looking Glass

The Red King ( Actor )

... 1966

A Man Could Get Killed

Hatton / Jones ( Actor )

... 1966

... 1964

The V.I.P.s

John Coburn ( Actor )

... 1963

The League of Gentlemen

Bunny Warren ( Actor )

... 1960

The Horse's Mouth

Sir William Beeder ( Actor )

... 1958

Merry Andrew

Dudley Larabee ( Actor )

... 1958

The Swan

Capt. Wunderlich ( Actor )

... 1956

The Constant Husband

The Best Man ( Actor )

... 1955

The Prisoner of Zenda

Fritz von Tarlenheim ( Actor )

... 1952

The Merry Widow

Marquis De Crillon ( Actor )

... 1952

Scaramouche

Gaston Binet ( Actor )

... 1952

Othello

Roderigo ( Actor )

... 1951

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

British Medical Officer ( Actor )

... 1951

Soldiers Three

Maj. Mercer ( Actor )

... 1951

The Elusive Pimpernel

Sir Andrew ffoulkes ( Actor )

... 1950

The Red Danube

Brigadier C.M.V. Catlock ( Actor )

... 1949

The Three Musketeers

Aramis ( Actor )

... 1948

Berlin Express

Sterling ( Actor )

... 1948

The Exile

Dick Pinner ( Actor )

... 1947

Forever Amber

Sir Thomas Dudley ( Actor )

... 1947

Lured

Detective Wilson ( Actor )

... 1947

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Mr. Coombe ( Actor )

... 1947

A Matter of Life and Death

Bob Trubshawe ( Actor )

... 1946

Cloak and Dagger

Cronin ( Actor )

... 1946

Forever and a Day

Blind Officer ( Actor )

... 1943

Commandos Strike at Dawn

Robert Bowen ( Actor )

... 1942

You Can't Fool Your Wife

Battincourt ( Actor )

... 1940

Vigil in the Night

Dr. Caley ( Actor )

... 1940

Nurse Edith Cavell

Bungey ( Actor )

... 1939

Bad Lands

Eaton ( Actor )

... 1939

The House of Fear

Robert Morton ( Actor )

... 1939

Gunga Din

Bertie Higginbotham ( Actor )

... 1939

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

Rollo Venables ( Actor )

... 1939

The Girl Downstairs

Karl ( Actor )

... 1938

Blond Cheat

Gilbert Potts ( Actor )

... 1938

A Yank at Oxford

Wavertree ( Actor )

... 1938

The Thirteenth Chair

Stanby ( Actor )

... 1937

Rangle River

Reggie Mannister, Flight-Lieutenant ( Actor )

... 1936

Loyalties

Robert ( Actor )

... 1933

Sally in Our Alley

Waiter At Party ( Actor )

... 1931