{{Short description|British actor (1867–1938)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Bert Coote | image = Photo of comedian Bert Coote (SAYRE 11830).jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 1867 | birth_place = London, England, United Kingdom | death_date = 1 September 1938 | death_place = London, England, United Kingdom | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1930–1934 (film) | children = Robert Coote }} '''Bert Coote''' (1867–1938) was a British comedian, vaudeville and music hall entertainer, dramatist, actor, and theatre producer.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/09/04/archives/bert-coote-dies-british-comedian-made-hit-here-in-vaudeville-sketch.html|title=BERT COOTE DIES; BRITISH COMEDIAN; Made Hit Here in Vaudeville Sketch 'Lamb on Wall St.' at End of the Century BEGAN STAGE CAREER AT 5 Toured This Country at 12Had Been Seen in Many Movies and Plays|work=The New York Times|page=16|date=September 4, 1938}}</ref> As a writer and comedian he was best known for creating and starring in several short comedic sketches and one act plays which he performed in British music halls and in American vaudeville from the 1880s into the early twentieth century.<ref name="nyt"/><ref name="Comedian">{{cite news|title=Comedian Bert Coote Is Dead|work=Evening Despatch|date=3 September 1938|page= 7}}</ref> These included ''The New Boy'', ''The Battle Scarred Hero'', ''A Supper for Two'' (with the actress Marie Pavey), and ''A Lamb on Wall Street''; the latter of which was his most famous and successful work.<ref name="nyt"/><ref name="Comedian"/> In his later life he worked as a producer on the West End in London; notably producing Frederick Bowyer's ''The Windmill Man'' at the Victoria Palace Theatre.<ref name="Comedian"/> He also appeared in several films, including the lead role in the 1931 crime film ''Bracelets''.<ref>Low p.297</ref>
He is the father of the actor Robert Coote.<ref>Parker p.658</ref>
==Filmography== * ''Greek Street'' (1930) * ''Such Is the Law'' (1930) * ''Bracelets'' (1931) * ''Two Hearts in Waltz Time'' (1934)
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==Bibliography== * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Parker, John. ''Who's who in the Theatre''. Pitman, 1972.
==External links== *{{IMDb name|1340385}}
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