Cotton has also guest starred in The Single Guy (with Olivia d'Abo, Mark Moses, and John Kassir), Beverly Hills, 90210 (with Tami-Adrian George, Bart McCarthy, Clyde Kusatsu, and Ken Jenkins), The Guardian (with Jeff Austin and J. Patrick McCormack), and NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (with Scott MacDonald). He has also starred in motion pictures such as Wag the Dog (with Kirsten Dunst, Suzie Plakson, Geoffrey Blake, Phil Morris, Jack Shearer, and J. Patrick McCormack), Hard, and Tahiti.