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Peter Cotes (19 March 1912–10 November 1998) was an English Director, Producer, Actor, Writer and Production Manager. Cotes was born as Sydney Boulting in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His twin brothers John and Roy Boulting became noted film makers. He began as an actor, before concentrating on theatre production. He wrote several books, including an acclaimed biography of Charles Chaplin in 1951. He was twice married: Myfanwy Jones (marriage annulled) and Joan Miller (widowed 1988). He died from natural causes in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire aged 86.
Cinema and Television Credits more less As Actor
Pal O'Mine (1936) ... Archie
Pastor Hall (1940) ... Erwin Kohn
Fingers (1941) (uncredited)
The Gentle Sex (1943) (uncredited) ...Taffy
Don't Take It to Heart (1944) ...Patterson, Junior Counsel
The Way to the Stars (1945) ...Aircraftsman
Beware of Pity (1946) ...Kosma
The Upturned Glass (1947) ... Questioner
As Writer
London Playhouse (3 episodes, 1955-1956)
Lady Must Sell (1955) (adaptation)
Summer in Normandy (1955) (production supervisor)
The Guv'nor (1956) TV episode (production supervisor)
ITV Playhouse (1 episode 1956)
Ashes in the Wind (1956) (adaptation)
ITV Play of the Week (1 episode 1965)
Winter in Ischia (1965) (television adaptation)
As Producer
London Playhouse (5 episodes 1955-1956)
The Inward Eye (1955) (producer)
Lady Must Sell (1955) (producer)
Fighting Chance (1955) (producer)
Adeline Girard ((1955) (supervising producer)
Yesterday's Mail (1956) (producer)
ITV Playhouse
Woman in a Dressing Gown (1956) (producer)
BBC Sunday Night Theatre
The Road (1953) (producer)
What the Public Wants (1959) (producer)
The World of Wooster
Jeeves and the Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustice (1966) (associate producer)
Jeeves and the Indian Summer of an Uncle (1966) (associate producer)
As Director
BBC Sunday Night Theatre (1 episode 1953)
The Road (1953)(uncredited)
The Right Person (1955)
London Playhouse (3 episodes 1955-1956)
Area Nine (1955)
Lady Must Sell (1955)
Yesterday's Mail (1956)
Sword of Freedom (1 episode 1957)
The Young and the Guilty (1958)
ITV Television Playhouse (5 episodes 1956-1958)
Ashes in the Wind (1956)
Woman in a Dressing Gown (1956)
The Young and the Guilty (1956)
Not Proven (1957)
Look in Any Window (1958)
ITV Play of the Week (1 episode 1964)
The Offence (1964) (TV episode)
Selected Theatre Credits more less
The Mousetrap (1952) (Director of original London stage production)
Total Books: 7