Tim Potter

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

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,^[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

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

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

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

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.

External links

• Tim Potter at IMDb