Tim Potter

Tim Potter (born Nottingam, 1959) is an English actor in film, television, and theatre since the 1980s.{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba2374704 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120911100857/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba2374704 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-09-11 |title=Tim Potter | BFI |publisher=Explore.bfi.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2014-06-06}}

Career

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Potter's stage work includes playing the role of Salvador Dalí in the original production of Terry Johnson's Hysteria at the Royal Court in 1993,{{cite web|url=http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/18th-september-1993/21/theatre |title=Theatre – from the Tablet Archive |publisher=Archive.thetablet.co.uk |date= |access-date=2014-06-06}}{{cite news|author=Robert Hanks |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-hysteria-duke-of-yorks-wc2-1523584.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-hysteria-duke-of-yorks-wc2-1523584.html |archive-date=2022-05-07 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=THEATRE Hysteria, Duke of York's, WC2 - Arts and Entertainment |work=The Independent |date=1995-12-02 |accessdate=2014-06-06}}{{cbignore}} and Charles II in Stephen Jeffreys' The Libertine the following year.{{cite news|author=Paul Taylor |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-rakes-progress-1389346.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-rakes-progress-1389346.html |archive-date=2022-05-07 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=The Rake's Progress - Arts and Entertainment |work=The Independent|date=1994-12-12 |accessdate=2014-06-06}}{{cbignore}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0693364/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1|title=Tim Potter – IMDb|publisher=imdb.com|accessdate=2014-06-07}}{{cite web|url=http://theatricalia.com/person/178d/tim-potter |title=Tim Potter |publisher=Theatricalia |date= |access-date=2014-06-06}}

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.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kanLd67izZUC&q=jim+cartwright+acme+acting&pg=PA99 |title=Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations – Google Books |date=2012-10-25 |isbn=9781408157107 |access-date=2014-06-06|last1=Milling |first1=Jane }}