13 Facts About Robert Coote

Robert Coote played aristocrats or British military types in many films, and created the role of Colonel Hugh Pickering in the long-running original Broadway production of My Fair Lady.

Robert Coote began his stage career at the age of 16, performing in Britain, South Africa, and Australia before arriving in Hollywood in the late 1930s.

Robert Coote played a succession of pompous British types in supporting roles, including a brief but memorable turn as Sgt.

Robert Coote's acting career was interrupted by his service as a squadron leader in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.

Robert Coote played Bob Trubshawe in Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death, chosen for the first-ever Royal Film Performance on 1 November 1946, before he returned to Hollywood, where his films included The Ghost and Mrs Muir, Forever Amber, The Three Musketeers, and Orson Welles' Othello.

Robert Coote originated the role of King Pellinore in the Broadway production of Camelot.

Robert Coote was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance as Timmy St Clair in the NBC TV series The Rogues.

In 1966, Robert Coote appeared with Jackie Gleason and Art Carney in an episode of The Honeymooners entitled "The Honeymooners in England", broadcast on CBS-TV from Miami.

In 1973, in his last feature film performance, Robert Coote portrayed one of the critics dispatched by Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood.

Robert Coote guest-starred in an episode of the 1979 NBC television anthology series $weepstake$.

In most film and TV adaptations of Nero Wolfe mysteries, before and since, Horstmann has been a very minor character, but Robert Coote's Horstmann got considerable screen time in the series.

Robert Coote died in his sleep at the New York Athletic Club in November 1982, at the age of 73.

Robert Coote was a close friend of actor David Niven, sharing a house with Niven for a time in the late 1930s and living in a flat over Niven's garage for several years after the Second World War.