Ralph Cotterill

Ralph Cotterill

1932-03-26 36 Credits

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.

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December Boys

December Boys

2007

as Shellback

6.0
Acting

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

The Proposition

2005

as Dr. Bantrey

7.0
Acting

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

Wind

1999

as Sergeant

Acting

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

Down Rusty Down

1997

as Angry Old Man

7.5
Acting

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

Whipping Boy

1996

as Shuffler

6.0
Acting

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

7.0
Acting

A comedy about jazz, poetry and sheep.

This Won't Hurt a Bit

This Won't Hurt a Bit

1993

as Bank Manager

Acting

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

Bad Boy Bubby

1993

as Pop

7.0
Acting

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

Ultraman - The Alien Invasion

1993

as Arthur Grant

5.0
Acting

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

Resistance

1992

as Sgt. Maj. Hopwood

5.0
Acting

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

Ultraman Great: The Battle for Earth

1990

as Captain Arthur Grant

6.0
Acting

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

Ultraman Great: The Alien Invasion

1990

as Captain Arthur Grant

5.2
Acting

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

Sons of Steel

1989

as Karzoff

5.2
Acting

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

Trouble in Paradise

1989

as Hughes

4.0
Acting

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

Acting

Australian TV-Movie (Comedy), Also known as Pigs Will Fly

To Make a Killing

To Make a Killing

1988

as The Professor

6.3
Acting

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

Rikky and Pete

1988

as George Pottinger

4.3
Acting

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

The Right Hand Man

The Right Hand Man

1987

as Sam

2.5
Acting

A stagecoach driver goes to work for a dying, one-armed aristocrat in 1860s Australia.

The Lighthorsemen

The Lighthorsemen

1987

as Gen. Friedrich von Kressenstein

6.1
Acting

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

Nice Coloured Girls

1987

as English Voice Over

7.0
Acting

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

Howling III: The Marsupials

1987

as Prof. Sharp

4.5
Acting

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

My Brother Tom

1986

as Dorman Walker

Acting

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

The Blue Lightning

1986

as Words

6.0
Acting

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

Shark's Paradise

1986

as Dr. Baxter

6.0
Acting

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

Burke & Wills

1985

as Charley Gray

4.9
Acting

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

Lorca and the Outlaws

1984

as Jowitt

3.6
Acting

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

Where the Green Ants Dream

1984

as Fletcher

6.9
Acting

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

Going Down

1983

as Karli's father

4.0
Acting

Middle-class Karli, alcoholic Jane, unemployed Jackie, and square Ellen are four friends living together and barely scraping by in suburban Sydney. Bu...

Hoodwink

Hoodwink

1981

4.4
Acting

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

The Survivor

1981

as Slater

5.2
Acting

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

Alison's Birthday

1981

as Brian Healey

5.2
Acting

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

The Chain Reaction

1980

as Gray

5.5
Acting

Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.

Blue Fin

Blue Fin

1978

as Herbie

6.0
Acting

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

7.0
Acting

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

Acting

Australian Short Film directed by Ian Stocks

Deathcheaters

Deathcheaters

1976

as The Uncivil Servant

5.8
Acting

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