Robert Coote , who stole business originated by Coote during the original Broadway production. Harrison resented Coote after unsuccessfully demanding to take over a famous piece of business created by Coote, Colonel Pickering's telephone call. Coote recreated the role in the 1976 Broadway revival.
Son of Bert Coote , who wrote the popular childrens play, The Windmill Man.
Was nominated for Broadways 1957 Tony Award as Best Supporting Actor for "My Fair Lady," for his performance as Colonel Pickering, a role he created in the original Broadway production (1956-1962) and reprised in the Broadway revival (1976-1977).
Served In The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) during the Second World War.
During the 1930s toured Britain and acted in Australia and then, prior to the Second World War, spent four years in Hollywood.
Made his London debut playing the King in the 1931 revival of "The Windmill Man" at the Victoria Palace.
Left Hurstpierpoint College at sixteen and moved into repertory, touring Shakespeare and a season with an English company in South Africa.
He and his A Matter of Life and Death , "The Rogues" and Prudence and the Pill co-star David Niven both played Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim in different adaptations of the 1894 novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" by Anthony Hope : Niven in The Prisoner of Zenda and Coote in The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) .
Mother, Ada Russell, was a dancer.
Only survivor was his sister, Peggy Coote Caswell of Sussex, England.
