Cotes, Peter

Peter Cotes (1912-1998), actor, producer and director, was born on 19 March 1912 in Maidenhead, Berkshire as Sidney Arthur Rembrandt Boulting (the pseudonym was taken from a house in which he had lived as a child). The eldest son of parents who had managed a theatre company in South Africa, he was the elder brother of the twin brother film directors and producers John Boulting (1913-1985) and Roy Boulting (1913-2001).

He was educated at the Itali Conti stage school, and started his career as an actor on stage and on screen during the 1930s, first appearing on film in Pal O' Mine (1936). He joined the Queen's Westminster Rifles on the outbreak of the Second World War, but was invalided out and returned to the theatre.

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