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 Salvador Dalí in the original production of Terry Johnson's Hysteria at the Royal Court in 1993, and Charles II in Stephen Jeffreys' The Libertine the following year. 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.
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.
Film and television 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
Film +YearTitleRoleNotes1988Salome's Last DancePharisee1990VroomHarry1995The Young Poisoner's HandbookSimon1997Fierce CreaturesVulture Keeper1999EntrapmentMillennium ManOneginDandy 22000The Nine Lives of Tomas KatzApocalyptic nutter2003CheekyHorace2004Finding Neverland'Hook' / Lord Carlton2008Miss Pettigrew Lives for a DayNightclub PatronFaintheartHeadmaster2013Still LifeHomeless Man2015A Royal Night OutDuty Manager
Television YearTitleRoleNotes1983WalterSquatters' AdviserTelevision filmVideo StarsEric Dancer1984LunaRobEpisode: "A Bureaubreau in the Hand Is Worth a Pension"Angels in the AnnexeMr. LomaxTelevision film1985Titus AndronicusClownTies of BloodCecilEpisode: "The Military Wing"1985–1986I Woke Up One MorningIrrelevant11 episodes1986Dead HeadTeddyEpisode: "The Patriot"1988Wild ThingsHotel ManagerTelevision film1990Blood RightsErich2 episodes1992Screen TwoMr. BellEpisode: "My Sister-Wife"KinseyLaurence Donegan2 episodesWitchcraftSealed KnotterEpisode #1.21993LovejoyHarrisonEpisode: "Judgement of Solomon"1994MinderLionelEpisode: "Bring Me the Head of Arthur Daley"The ChiefDick MortimerEpisode #4.10 Soldier SoldierRMPEpisode: "Proud Man"1997The Pale HorseDr OsbourneTelevision filmNoah's ArkGeoffrey WingerEpisode: "Family Matters"Beyond FearPrison GuardTelevision film1998BramwellCrispinEpisode: "Loose Women"1999Alice in WonderlandKnave of HeartsTelevision filmA Christmas CarolThe Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come2000The BillWarren AskewEpisode: "Touch and Go"The Prince and the PauperChief GentlemanTelevision filmSecond Sight: ParasomniaLeonard2001The Infinite Worlds of H. G. WellsJim / 2nd Card Player6 episodesMurder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock HolmesBoltonEpisode: "The Photographer's Chair"2002Crime and PunishmentNikolaiTelevision film2003ByronMillingen2005According to BexThe tog raterEpisode: "Stuck in the Middle with You"2006, 2007Trial & RetributionDr. Adrian Kinton2 episodes2014New TricksBryan FawsonEpisode: "Bermondsey Boy"
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