Occupation Actor Name Matthew Cottle | Role Film actor | |
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Movies Chaplin, The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells Similar People Shobu Kapoor, Adil Ray, Richard Attenborough, Robert Young |
Dear Uncle - In conversation with Matthew Cottle
Matthew Cottle (Born 16 February 1967) is a British film, stage, radio and television actor.
Contents
- Dear Uncle In conversation with Matthew Cottle
- Matthew Cottle Stuttering King Bakery
- Early life
- Film
- Theatre
- Television
- Personal life
- Filmography
- References

Matthew Cottle / Stuttering King Bakery
Early life
Cottle was born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and studied drama at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Film
Cottle appeared in Richard Attenborough's 1992 Chaplin (as Stan Laurel), and in David Jones' 1999 adaptation of A Christmas Carol
Theatre
Cottle's recent theatre includes How the Other Half Loves at the Haymarket Theatre and Duke of Yorks, Our Country's Good, A Small Family Business and The Habit of Art at the National Theatre. Quartermaine's Terms at Wyndhams Theatre directed by Richard Eyre. He also appeared in A Chorus Of Disapproval directed by Trevor Nunn (Harold Pinter Theatre) and Comic Potential directed by Alan Ayckbourn (Lyric Theatre). Other theatre roles includes: Communicating Doors Menier Chocolate Factory Neighbourhood Watch (in Scarborough and New York), Racing Demon (Sheffield Crucible), Taking Steps (Orange Tree, Richmond), What the Women Did at the Southwark Playhouse and several tours and seasons at repertory theatres up and down the country.
Television
Cottle has appeared as a regular in a number of television series, including: Murder on the Blackpool Express, two series of The Windsors for Channel 4, three series as Martin in BBC Two's Bafta-nominated flat-share sitcom Game On and four series of Citizen Khan. He has also appeared as a regular in several other series including: Fried, Get Well Soon, A Perfect State, Life Begins. As well as guest appearances in numerous TV shows including: Plebs for ITV 2, Unforgotten for ITV, The Dresser, Channel 4's Man Down, Dave's Hoff the Record comedy series, The Job Lot, Holby City. Doctors, Pramface and many more.
Personal life
He is an Arsenal supporter and has two children, a daughter named Hannah born in 1997 and a son named Harry born in 2000.