About Tim Potter
Born 1959. Tim Potter is a British actor, television actor, film actor, film director, film screenwriter and cinematographer.
Tim Potter (born Nottingam, 1959) is an English actor in film, television, and theatre since the 1980s.
Career Stage Potter's stage work includes playing the role of Salvador Dalà in the original production of Terry Johnson's Hysteria at the Royal Court in 1993, and Charles II in Stephen Jeffreys' The Libertine the following year. He has appeared in productions of plays by Edward Bond, Oscar Wilde, Dario Fo, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett, Shakespeare, George Etherege and Jim Cartwright. and worked for directors including Sam Mendes, Phyllida Lloyd, Neil Bartlett, Ken Russell, Benjamin Ross, Julian Jarrold, Steven Berkoff, Max Stafford-Clark, Philip Prowse, Uberto Pasolini, Deborah Warner and Stephen Frears.
He was a founder member, with Jim Cartwright and Louis Mellis of Acme Acting, a theatre company which performed plays in domestic homes, using the whole house, with the audience following the actors room to room. His roles included Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire and Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
Film and television Potter's film roles include the Ghost of Christmas Future in A Christmas Carol (1999) opposite Patrick Stewart, Chief Gentleman in The Prince and the Pauper (2000), and Captain Hook in Finding Neverland (2004), as well as roles in The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995), Entrapment (1999), Faintheart (2008), Still Life (2013), and the 1999 television movie adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.
Filmography
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Who is Tim Potter?
English actor
When was Tim Potter born?
Tim Potter was born in 1959 in Nottingham.
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Tim Potter is an actor, television actor, film actor, film director, film screenwriter and cinematographer.
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Tim Potter is British.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Tim Potter. https://biography.guide/tim-potter/
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