Biography
Ralph Cotterill (March 26, 1932 - May 7, 2023) was a British-born Australian character actor. He arrived in Australia in 1973 while touring with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He went on to have a long a career in Australia, both on stage and screen.
Known For
Complete Filmography

December Boys
2007
as Shellback
For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may ...

The Proposition
2005
as Dr. Bantrey
In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hun...

Wind
1999
as Sergeant
Australia, 1867. In the bleak high country, a young black tracker and his elderly sergeant follow the trail of a killer, a traditional Indigenous man.

Down Rusty Down
1997
as Angry Old Man
An anthromorphic tale, humans representing canines, of compulsive traits and raging desires. A gang of neutered men; fat, subdued and lazy, look out f...

Whipping Boy
1996
as Shuffler
A female lawyer heads a government taskforce investigating a suspected paedophile racket in Sydney. Based on the novel by Gabrielle Lord.
The Beat Manifesto
1995
as Bill Darcy
A comedy about jazz, poetry and sheep.

This Won't Hurt a Bit
1993
as Bank Manager
An incompetent rogue dentist travels from Australia to the UK, where he wreaks havoc on English teeth until the law catches up with him.

Bad Boy Bubby
1993
as Pop
Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him...

Ultraman - The Alien Invasion
1993
as Arthur Grant
Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are astronauts doing research on the planet Mars. On a routine mission to survey the desolate landscape, they found ou...

Resistance
1992
as Sgt. Maj. Hopwood
Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.

Ultraman Great: The Battle for Earth
1990
as Captain Arthur Grant
The second and final compilation films for Ultraman Great (aka Ultraman: Towards the Future). Jack Shindo is an astronaut doing research on the planet...

Ultraman Great: The Alien Invasion
1990
as Captain Arthur Grant
The first of two compilation films for Ultraman Great (aka Ultraman: Towards the Future). Jack Shindo is an astronaut doing research on the planet Mar...

Sons of Steel
1989
as Karzoff
The film is set in Australia, where an accidental future time traveler finds himself going back in time to change events to prevent a calamity.

Trouble in Paradise
1989
as Hughes
Following her husband Arthur's mysterious death, Rachel Baxley packs up her life as a State Department wife in Hong Kong and boards a freighter along ...
I've Come About The Suicide
1988
as Man
Australian TV-Movie (Comedy), Also known as Pigs Will Fly

To Make a Killing
1988
as The Professor
Damon Kennedy (Tamblyn Lord, The River Kings) is an impressionable young man ready to begin university life. On the other side of the tracks live Terr...

Rikky and Pete
1988
as George Pottinger
Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.

The Right Hand Man
1987
as Sam
A stagecoach driver goes to work for a dying, one-armed aristocrat in 1860s Australia.

The Lighthorsemen
1987
as Gen. Friedrich von Kressenstein
In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment...

Nice Coloured Girls
1987
as English Voice Over
Nice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists. Three Aboriginal women cruise through Kings...

Howling III: The Marsupials
1987
as Prof. Sharp
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. I...

My Brother Tom
1986
as Dorman Walker
Set in Australia, against the backdrop of World War II, this epic miniseries centers on the religiously divided town of St. Helens and the innocent ro...

The Blue Lightning
1986
as Words
Harry Wingate, a rugged adventurer, is hired by a gem collector to retrieve a priceless opal, known as "The Blue Lightning," from Lester McInally, a s...

Shark's Paradise
1986
as Dr. Baxter
A mad man threatens to lure hundreds of sharks to the beach at Surfers Paradise Australia at the start of the tourist season, his price to hold off th...

Burke & Wills
1985
as Charley Gray
A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.

Lorca and the Outlaws
1984
as Jowitt
Jowitt, a mercenary without recluse institutes a totalitarian regime in a small mining city of an arid planet, Ordessa, helped in that by androids inc...

Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
as Fletcher
The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbe...

Going Down
1983
as Karli's father
Middle-class Karli, alcoholic Jane, unemployed Jackie, and square Ellen are four friends living together and barely scraping by in suburban Sydney. Bu...

Hoodwink
1981
Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves star...

The Survivor
1981
as Slater
When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the investigators look for the answers to the disa...

Alison's Birthday
1981
as Brian Healey
During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from beyond the grave not to go home for her birthday three ...

The Chain Reaction
1980
as Gray
Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.

Blue Fin
1978
as Herbie
Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of S...
Hospitals Don't Burn Down
1978
A fire breaks out in a multi-story hospital in the middle of the night and a male nurse and a nursing sister save many lives during a fire in a major ...
The Tree
1977
Australian Short Film directed by Ian Stocks

Deathcheaters
1976
as The Uncivil Servant
Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.