External links
- Peter Cotes at IMDb
- Peter Cotes at the Internet Broadway Database
Peter Cotes (19 March 1912 – 10 November 1998) was an English director, producer, actor, writer and production manager. [1]
Cotes was born as Sydney Boulting [2] in Maidenhead, Berkshire. [3] His brothers John and Roy Boulting became noted film makers. [2] He began as an actor, before concentrating on theatre production. [4] He was the original director of the world's longest-running production The Mousetrap , still playing at the St Martins Theatre, London. [5] He wrote several books, including an acclaimed biography of Charlie Chaplin in 1951. [4]
Cotes travelled to Australia in 1961 to direct some television plays. He was fired during the filming of Bitter Harvest. [6]
He was twice married: Myfanwy Jones (marriage annulled) and Joan Miller (widowed 1988). [5] He died from natural causes in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, aged 86. [4]
As actor
As writer
As producer
As director
