John Altman wanted action-packed exit from EastEnders
John Altman wanted action-packed exit from EastEnders BANG Showbiz 15/03/2021 Bang Showbiz John Altman wanted a different exit from ‘EastEnders’. The 69-year-old actor played Albert Square villain Nick Cotton on and off for two decades between 1985 and 2015 before finally making his final appearance in the 30th anniversary episode being left to die from a drugs overdose by his mother Dot Cotton (June Brown) in a recreation of a scene from the show’s very first episode when Reg Cox was found dead slumped in his chair, murdered by Nick. Although the episode was a ratin...