Peter Cotes was an English director, producer, actor, writer and production manager.

Cotes was born as Sydney Boulting in Maidenhead

Maidenhead

Maidenhead is a town and unparished area within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, in Berkshire, England. It lies on the River Thames and is situated west of Charing Cross in London.-History:...

, Berkshire. His twin brothers John and Roy Boulting

John and Roy Boulting

John Edward Boulting and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting , known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their popular series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s.-Biography:The twin brothers were born in Bray, Berkshire, England...

 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

As Actor

• Pal O'Mine (1936) ... Archie
• Pastor Hall
  Pastor Hall
  Pastor Hall is a 1940 British drama film directed by Ray Boulting and starring Wilfrid Lawson, Nova Pilbeam, Seymour Hicks, among others. The film is based on the play of the same title by German author Ernst Toller who had lived as an emigrant in the United States until his suicide in...
  
  (1940) ... Erwin Kohn
• Fingers (1941) (uncredited)
• The Gentle Sex
  The Gentle Sex
  The Gentle Sex is a 1943 British, black-and-white romantic comedy-drama war film directed and narrated by Leslie Howard. It was produced by Concanen Productions, Two Cities Films and Derrick de Marney.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1943) (uncredited) ...Taffy
• Don't Take It to Heart
  Don't Take It to Heart
  Don't Take It to Heart is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Jeffrey Dell and starring Richard Greene, Alfred Drayton, Moore Marriott and Patricia Medina...
  
  (1944) ...Patterson, Junior Counsel
• The Way to the Stars
  The Way to the Stars
  The Way to the Stars, also known as Johnny in the Clouds, is a 1945 British war drama film made by Two Cities Films and released by United Artists. It was produced by Anatole de Grunwald and directed by Anthony Asquith...
  
  (1945) ...Aircraftsman
• Beware of Pity
  Beware of Pity
  Beware of Pity is a 1946 British romantic drama film starring Lilli Palmer, Albert Lieven and Cedric Hardwicke. It is based on the novel of the same name by Stefan Zweig...
  
  (1946) ...Kosma
• The Upturned Glass
  The Upturned Glass
  The Upturned Glass is a 1947 British drama film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring James Mason, Rosamund John and Pamela Kellino. A leading surgeon murders a woman he believes to be responsible for the death of the woman he loved.-Cast:...
  
  (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)
  • Alessandro (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)

External links

• The Internet Movie Database