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Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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Il Candelaio
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Curse of the Starving Class
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The Custom of the Country
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Short but pugnacious, Ron Cook came to notice at the RSC in the late 1970s. He played Poggio in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Ron Daniels, TOP, 1977, Warehouse, 1978); Edward in Henry VI Part 3 (Terry Hands, RST, 1977, Aldwych, 1978); Samuel in David Rudkin's The Sons of Light (Daniels, TOP, 1977, Warehouse, 1978); Sixth Roman Citizen in Coriolanus (Hands, Aldwych, 1978); Corporal/Earl in The Women Pirates (Daniels, Aldwych, 1978); Singer in Ron Hutchinson's The Irish Play (Kyle, Warehouse, 1980); and Mark Craven in Television Times (Stephen Frears, Warehouse, 1980).
Returning at intervals, he was outstanding as George Hewins in The Dillen (Kyle, TOP, 1983); Autolycus in The Winter's Tale (Adrian Noble) and John Hale in The Crucible (Kyle/Nick Hamm, Small-scale Tour, 1984); George Hewins again in The Dillen and Mary After the Queen (Kyle, TOP and Warehouse, Stratford, 1985); Springlove in Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew (Max Stafford-Clark, Swan, 1992, Pit, 1993); Odysseus in The Odyssey (Gregory Doran, TOP, 1992, Pit, 1993); and Dr Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor (David Thacker, RST, 1992).
Cook has also worked at the Royal Court, the National, the Donmar Warehouse and elsewhere: Andrea Dunbar's The Arbor (Max Stafford-Clark, Royal Court, 1980); Betty/Gerry in Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (Stafford-Clark, Joint Stock, Royal Court, 1980); the Last Reactionary in Howard Brenton's Greenland (Simon Curtis, Royal Court, 1988); Brazen in The Recruiting Officer and Wisehammer/Captain Philip in Our Country's Good (Stafford-Clark, Royal Court, 1988, 1989); Frank in Jane Stanton Hitchcock's Vanilla (Harold Pinter, West End, 1990); Maksudov, the writer, in Bulgakov's Black Snow (William Gaskill, NT Cottesloe, 1991); Teddy in Brian Friel's Faith Healer (Joe Dowling, Royal Court, 1992); the wise-talking con man, not quite Al Pacino, in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross (Sam Mendes, Donmar Warehouse, 1994); Yegor in Tony Kushner's Slavs (Matthew Lloyd, Hampstead Theatre, 1994); Nigel Williams's farce Harry and Me (Royal Court, 1996); Uncle Prokhor in Gorky's Vassa (Howard Davies, Almeida at the Albery, 1999); the title role in Patrick Marber's Howard Katz (Marber, NT Cottesloe, 2001); the title role in Peter Flannery's Singer (Sean Holmes, Oxford Stage Company, Tricycle, 2004); Lapo in Nigel Planer's On the Ceiling (Jennie Darnell, Garrick, 2005); Mr Lockhart in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer (NT Cottesloe, 2006).
His most interesting films are Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989); Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies (1996) and Topsy-Turvy (1999); Peter Cattaneo's Lucky Break (2001); and Michael Winterbottom's Twenty-Four Hour Party People (2002). In Chocolat (Lasse Hallström, 2000) and Charlotte Gray (Gillian Armstrong, 2001) he was one of a number of fine English actors asked, by the writing, to play stock Frenchmen. For the BBC Shakespeare he was Peter Simple in The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982) and Richard in the 'Histories' (Jane Howell, 1983). He was at his very best playing Lloyd George in Stephen Poliakoff's The Lost Prince (BBC, 2003). Other appearances include: Life of Shakespeare (ITV, 1978); The Racing Game (ITV, 1979); Whoops Apocalypse (1982); Black Adder (BBC, 1983); Number One (1984); Girls on Top (1985); The Singing Detective (BBC, 1986); Boon (ITV, 1990); Napoleon in Sharpe's Honour (ITV, 1994); The Odyssey (1997); Benjamin Partridge in Tom Jones (BBC, 1997); Quills (Philip Kaufman, 2000); 102 Dalmatians (2000); Cromwell in The Other Boleyn Girl (BBC, 2003); Parker in Thunderbirds (2004); Old Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice (Michael Radford, 2004); On a Clear Day (2005); Funland (BBC, 2005); Land of the Blind (2006); Confetti (2006); Doctor Who (BBC, 2006); Berry's Way (BBC, 2006); Foyle's War (ITV, 2007); Hot Fuzz (2007).
Education: Caludon Castle School, Coventry; Rose Bruford
RSC: Joined 1977
Seasons: 1977 (Strat.)-78 (Lond.); 1980 (Lond.); 1983 (Strat.); 1984 (Small-scale Tour); 1985 (Strat.); 1992 (Strat.)-93 (Lond.)
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