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Roderick Cook (9 February 1932 – 17 August 1990) was an English playwright, writer, theatre director and actor of stage, television and film. Cook is particularly remembered for devising, directing and starring in the musical review Oh, Coward! and for portraying Count Von Strack in the Oscar winning film Amadeus. Cook graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge in 1953 and then began his career appearing in plays at London's West End during the 1950s. He made his professional stage debut in 1954 as Feste in Twelfth Night; a production directed by Peter Hall. That same year he worked... MORE

Roderick Cook (9 February 1932 – 17 August 1990) was an English playwright, writer, theatre director and actor of stage, television and film. Cook is particularly remembered for devising, directing and starring in the musical review Oh, Coward! and for portraying Count Von Strack in the Oscar winning film Amadeus. Cook graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge in 1953 and then began his career appearing in plays at London's West End during the 1950s. He made his professional stage debut in 1954 as Feste in Twelfth Night; a production directed by Peter Hall. That same year he worked under Hall again in the English-language premiere of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett at the Arts Theatre, London. He also starred alongside Maggie Smith in the original 1954 production of Listen to the Wind at the Oxford Playhouse. Cook worked with Smith again in the original 1957 production of Share My Lettuce at the Lyric Hammersmith. In 1956 Cook worked under Hall's direction as Gaston in the English-language premiere of The Waltz of the Toreadors at London's Arts Theatre where he played opposite Hugh Griffith and Beatrix Lehmann. In 1957, he appeared in the ill fated musical Zuleika at the LESS