Ronald G. Cook (born 1 December 1948) is an English actor. He has been active in film, television and theatre since the 1970s. Cook was born in 1948 in South Shields, County Durham, the son of a school cook and a car worker. When he was 6, his family moved to Coventry; he went to Wyken Croft Junior School and then Caludon Castle School and is a graduate of Rose Bruford College.

Filmography

• 2026Ladies First — Mr. Sachs
• I Fought the Law — Frank Cook MP
• 2025Sew Torn — Oskar
• 2025The Choral — Reverend Woodhead
• The Hack — Max Mosley
• 2024The Critic — Hugh Morris
• Andor — Willi
• 2022Empire of Light — Mr. Cooper
• 2022Grenfell: Scenes from the Inquiry — Richard Millett QC
• Life After Life — Dr. Fellowes
• 2021The King's Man — Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
• 202018% Grey — Charlie
• Des — DSI Chambers
• Chernobyl — Old Maternity Doctor
• The Witcher — Borch Three Jackdaws
• Les Misérables — Hair and Teeth Dealer
• The City and the City — Commissar Gadlem
• Inside No. 9 — Wilf
• Mr Selfridge — Mr. Crabb
• 2012Bert & Dickie — Albert
• 2012Mrs Biggs — Peter
• Mrs Biggs — Peter
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Durdles
• Death in Paradise — Bill Calder
• 2011National Theatre Live: King Lear — The Fool
• Vera — Brian Gower
• 2010Time Gentlemen, Please — The Good Chap, Thanks
• Garrow's Law — Captain Baillie
• Personal Affairs — Bernie Lerner
• Red Riding
• 2009Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 — Clement Smith
• 2009The Diary of Anne Frank — Hermann Van Daan
• The Diary of Anne Frank — Hermann Van Daan
• 10 Days to War — Peter
• 2008Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story — Lord Charlie Hill
• Little Dorrit — Chivery
• 2007Hot Fuzz — George Merchant
• 2006Confetti — Sam's Dad
• 2006Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! — Peter Eade
• 2006Land of the Blind — Doc
• Casanova — Prisoner
• Doctor Who — Magpie
• Doctor Who Confidential
• Funland — Hitman
• 2005On a Clear Day — Norman
• He Knew He Was Right — Mr Bozzle
• 2004The Merchant of Venice — Old Gobbo
• 2004Thunderbirds — Parker
• 2003Hornblower: Duty — Steward James Doughty
• 2003Hornblower: Loyalty — Steward James Doughty
• Seven Wonders of the Industrial World — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
• The Lost Prince — Lloyd George
• 2003The Other Boleyn Girl — Thomas Cromwell
• 200224 Hour Party People — Derek
• 2002Dead Gorgeous — Hector
• 2002Fields of Gold — Dave McArdle
• Foyle's War — Eddie Baker
• 2002The Hound of the Baskervilles — Barrymore
• 2001Charlotte Gray — Mirabel
• 2001Lucky Break — Perry
• Waking the Dead — Dr. Milan Vaspovic
• 2000102 Dalmatians — Mr. Button
• 2000Chocolat — Alphonse Marceau
• 2000Quills — Napoleon
• 1999Topsy-Turvy — Richard D'Oyly Carte
• Hornblower — Doughty
• 1998Let the Good Times Roll — Drug Dealer
• Midsomer Murders — Bernard Flack
• The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling — Benjamin Partridge
• The Odyssey — Eurybates
• 1996Secrets & Lies — Stuart
• Bramwell — Percy Banks
• 1994Sharpe's Honour — Napoleon Bonaparte
• Sharpe — Napoleon
• The Detectives — Blind Billy
• Maigret
• 1991Turbulence — Harry
• The Chief — James Baddeley
• 1990The Fool
• 1989The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover — Mews
• 1986Day To Remember — Graham
• The Singing Detective — First Mysterious Man
• Girls On Top — Ian
• 1985Number One — 'The Wasp'
• 1984Scandalous — 3rd Taxi Driver
• The Bill
• Blackadder — Sean, the Irish
• 1983Henry VI Part 1 — Third Messinger to the King / Countess' Porter
• 1983Henry VI Part 2 — Richard Plantagenet
• 1983Henry VI Part 3 — Richard, Duke of Gloucester
• 1983The Tragedy of Richard III — Richard III
• 1982The Magic Shop
• 1982The Merry Wives of Windsor — Peter Simple
• The Young Ones — Convict
• Bergerac — Reggie Betts
• Will Shakespeare — Jack Rice
• 1976Secrets of a Superstud — Telegram Boy

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2004No Strings Attached: The Making of Thunderbirds — Self