Robert Coote

Robert Coote

Acting 1909-02-04 London, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Coote (4 February 1909 – 26 November 1982) was an English actor. He played aristocrats or British military types in many films, and created the role of Colonel Hugh Pickering in the long-running original Broadway production of My Fair Lady. Coote was born in London and educated at Hurstpierpoint College in Sussex. He began his stage career at the age of 16, performing in Britain, South Africa, and Australia before arriving in Hollywood in the late 1930s. He played a succession of pompous British types in supporting roles, including a brief but memorable turn as Sgt. Bertie Higginbotham in Gunga Din (1939). His acting career was interrupted by his service as a squadron leader in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He played Bob Trubshawe in Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946), chosen for the first-ever Royal Film Performance on 1 November 1946, before he returned to Hollywood, where his films included The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Forever Amber (1947), The Three Musketeers (1948), and Orson Welles' Othello (1952). In 1956, Coote created the role of Colonel Pickering in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady (1956–62), which he reprised in the musical's 1976–77 Broadway revival. He also originated the role of King Pellinore in the Broadway production of Camelot (1960–63). He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance as Timmy St. Clair in the NBC TV series The Rogues (1964–65). In 1966, Coote appeared with Jackie Gleason and Art Carney in an episode of The Honeymooners entitled "The Honeymooners in England", broadcast on CBS-TV from Miami. In his last feature film performance, Coote portrayed one of the critics dispatched by Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood (1973). His final role was on television, playing orchid nurse Theodore Horstmann in the 1981 NBC-TV series Nero Wolfe, starring William Conrad in the title role. In most film and TV adaptations of Nero Wolfe mysteries, before and since, Horstmann has been a very minor character, but Coote's Horstmann got considerable screen time in the series. The veteran British character actor died in his sleep at the New York Athletic Club in November 1982, at the age of 73. Coote was a close friend of actor David Niven, sharing a house with Niven for a time in the late 1930s and living in a flat over Niven's garage for several years after the Second World War.

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1981 Theodore Horstmann
1979 Wellington
1979 Butler
1973 Oliver Larding
1972 General Burke
1969 Col. Sir Francis Chesney
1968 Henry Hardcastle
1967 Stanley Krum
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1966 Sir Hubert Charles
1966 Hatton / Jones
1966 The Red King
1965 Col. Sir Francis Chesney
1965 Mr. Eager
1964 Timmy St. Clair
1963 John Coburn
1960 Bunny Warren
1959
1958 Sir William Beeder
1958 Dudley Larabee
1956 Capt. Wunderlich
1955 The Best Man
1952 Fritz von Tarlenheim
1952 Marquis De Crillon
1952 Gaston Binet
1951 Roderigo
1951 British Medical Officer
1951 Maj. Mercer
1950 Sir Andrew ffoulkes
1950 Stephen
1950 Joe Worton
1950 Lawton
1950 Sir Archibald Bruern
1949 Brigadier C.M.V. Catlock
1948 Aramis
1948 Sterling
1948 Dr. Gordon
1947 Detective Wilson
1947 Mr. Coombe
1947 Sir Thomas Dudley
1947 Dick Pinner
1946 Bob Trubshawe
1946 Cronin
1943 Blind Officer
1942 Robert Bowen
1940 Dr. Caley
1940 Battincourt
1939 Bertie Higginbotham
1939 Rollo Venables
1939 Eaton
1939 Robert Morton
1939 Bungey
1938 Wavertree
1938 Karl
1938 Gilbert Potts
1937 Stanby
1937 Lord Eustace Byington
1936 Reggie Mannister, Flight-Lieutenant
1933 Robert
1931 Waiter At Party