Roderick Cook
Biography
Roderick Cook was an English actor, playwright, and theater director. After graduating from Queens' College, Cambridge in 1953, he began working in London's West End. His first professional stage role came in 1954 as Feste in Twelfth Night, and that same year he appeared in the first English-language production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. He later moved to America and made his Broadway debut in 1961 in Kean. His greatest success was Oh, Coward!, a Noël Coward revue he created, directed, and starred in, which opened off-Broadway in 1972. He received a Drama Desk Award nomination for The Man Who Came to Dinner in 1980 and a Tony Award nomination for Oh Coward! in 1987. His films included The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), Girlfriends (1978), Amadeus (1984), in which he played Count Von Strack, Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986), and Spellbinder (1988). He died in 1990.
58years old at death
- Born London
- Died Los Angeles
- Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 13 years1975 to 1988
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Behind the camera
Cook devised Oh, Coward!, a musical revue about the life and works of Noel Coward. He directed and starred in it, and it opened off-Broadway on 4 October 1972, running for 294 performances.
First role
Cook's first professional stage role came in 1954, when he played Feste in Twelfth Night in a production directed by Peter Hall.
Behind the camera
In the 1970s, Cook took on directing work for several productions. Among them, he directed Peter O'Toole in Present Laughter and Uncle Vanya in 1978.
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Worked with
Roderick Cook shares two films with Viveca Lindfors, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Adrian LyneDirector, 1 film, 1986
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