---
name: "Paul Cotter"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-cotter"
fi1m_id: "paul-cotter"
imdb_id: "nm0182970"
tmdb_id: 222349
wikidata_id: "Q95903733"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T15:15:27.731050+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Paul Cotter

## Identity

Paul Cotter

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-cotter
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-cotter
- **IMDb ID:** nm0182970
- **TMDB ID:** 222349
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95903733
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95903733, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182970/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/222349

Director. Born in Brighton, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2004–2011
- **Frequently works with:** [Daikin Marsh](https://film.one/person/daikin-marsh.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 75 (1), 2010s 72 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95903733, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182970/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/222349

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Shameless*](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md) (75), [*Vera*](https://film.one/tv/vera.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Paul Cotter is a British director and writer. He directed an episode of the Channel 4 series *Shameless* (2012) and episodes of *Vera* (2013) and *Waterloo Road* (2012). His feature debut *Bomber* (2009), which he also wrote and produced, premiered at SXSW and received North American distribution through Film Movement.

Born in Brighton, England, Cotter studied geography in Manchester and worked on glaciers in Pakistan before becoming a filmmaker. His short films have screened at festivals including Berlin, Sundance and SXSW. He has also directed episodes of *Hollyoaks*, *Doctors* and *Rocket's Island*, and written radio plays for the BBC.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, spacescle.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Vera* (2011), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)
- *Shameless* (2004), Fi1m 75, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Interpreting Twain* (2018), Director, Writer
- *The Evermoor Chronicles* (2014), series, Director
- *Vera* (2011), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)
- *Bomber* (2009), Writer, Director, Producer
- *The Berlin Wall* (2009), Writer, Director
- *Odd Shoe* (2008), Director
- *Waterloo Road* (2006), series, Director
- *Estes Avenue* (2005), Writer, Producer, Director
- *Shameless* (2004), series, Director — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md)
- *Cutting Edge* (1990), series, Associate Producer

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