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

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, and Charles II in Stephen Jeffreys' The Libertine the following year. 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.

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.

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

Television

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

• 20th-century births
• Living people
• 20th-century English male actors
• 21st-century English male actors
• English male film actors
• English male stage actors
• English male television actors
• English founders
• Male actors from London
• Organization founders