Cain
John Caird
Jonathan Cake
David Calder
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Michael Calf
Camille
Camino Real
Cheryl Campbell
Il Candelaio
Can Opener
The Canterbury Tales
Captain Swing
John Carlisle
Jason Carr
Carrie
Nancy Carroll
Elaine Cassidy
The Castle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Changeling
Jan Chappell
Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson Awards
Geoffrey Chaucer
Paddy Chayefsky
Anton Chekhov
Nick Chelton
The Cherry Orchard
Children of the Sun
Alison Chitty
A Christmas Carol
Christopher Columbus
Tony Church
Caryl Churchill
The Churchill Play
Clay
Dennis Clinton
A Clockwork Orange
The Collection
Patience Collier
Columbus and the Discovery of Japan
The Comedy of Errors
Complete Works Festival
Comrades
Kerry Condon
William Congreve
Shelley Conn
Paule Constable
The Constant Couple
Nina Conti
Kandis Cook
Ron Cook
Dominic Cooke
Nigel Cooke
Richard Cordery
Coriolanus
Charlotte Cornwell
Oliver Cotton
Yvonne Coulette
Country Dancing
The Country Wife
Courtyard Theatre
Cousin Vladimir
Andrea J. Cox
Brian Cox
Claire Cox
Cries from the Casement
Crimes in Hot Countries
The Criminals
Derbhle Crotty
Bob Crowley
The Crucible
Frances Cuka
Paddy Cunneen
Liam Cunningham
Julian Curry
Curse of the Starving Class
Curtmantle
Cyril Cusack
Niamh Cusack
Sinéad Cusack
The Custom of the Country
Cymbeline
Cyrano de Bergerac
The young Oliver Cotton was a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre at the Old Vic, appearing in Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun (John Dexter, 1964), Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Derek Goldby, 1967), As You Like It (Clifford Williams, 1967), and Peter Brook's Oedipus (1968). Moving to the Royal Court, he was in the original casts of two seminal works by Edward Bond, Lear (William Gaskill, 1971) and Bingo (Jane Howell, 1974). He returned to the National for the first seasons on the South Bank, and again in the 1990s/2000s: Hamlet (Peter Hall, 1975); Tamburlaine the Great (Hall, 1976); Tales from the Vienna Woods (Maximillian Schell, 1977); Julius Caesar (John Schlesinger); The Passion (Bill Bryden, 1977); The Madras House (Gaskill, 1977); The World Turned Upside Down (Bryden, 1978); The Crucible (Howard Davies, 1990); The Piano (Davies, 1990); Troilus and Cressida (Trevor Nunn, 1999); Money (John Caird, 1999); Summerfolk (Nunn, 1999); The Villain's Opera (Tim Supple, 2000); and Yasmina Reza's Life x 3 (Matthew Warchus, 2000-01).
Less associated with the RSC, he was a commanding figure in The Plantagenets playing the contrasting roles of Suffolk, Jack Cade and Buckingham (Adrian Noble, RST, 1988, Barbican, 1989). Also: John Abud in The Marrying of Ann Leete (David Jones, Aldwych, 1975); Freeman in The Plain Dealer (Ron Daniels, Swan, 1988); Philip Brown in Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad (Roger Michell, Pit, 1989); and the Mayor in Brand (Noble, Swan and Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2003).
Other theatre: the Earl of Northumberland in Richard II (Nunn, Old Vic, 2005); Clifford in Terry Johnson's Piano/Forte (Royal Court, 2006).
Television: The Borgias (BBC, 1981); The Camomile Lawn (Peter Hall, Channel Four, 1992); Tim Firth's All Quiet on the Preston Front (BBC, 1994); Sharp's Battle (ITV, 1995); Rhodes (BBC, 1998); Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC, 2004); Waking the Dead (BBC, 2004); Inspector Lynley Mysteries (BBC, 2004); Murder Investigation Team (ITV, 2005); Sensitive Skin (BBC, 2005); Hotel Babylon (BBC, 2007).
Films: Firefox (Clint Eastwood, 1982); Eleni (Peter Yates, 1985); The Sicilian (Michael Cimino, 1987); Son of the Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, 1993); Baby Blue (Theo van Gogh, 2001); The Dancer Upstairs (John Malkovich, 2002); Shanghai Knights (2003); Colour Me Kubrick (2005).
Education: Drama Centre, London
RSC: Joined 1975
Seasons: 1975 (Lond.); 1988 (Strat.)-89 (Lond.); 2003 (Strat./Lond.)
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