Richard Morant

Richard Morant (30 October 1945 – 9 November 2011) was an English actor.

Morant was born in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire. His father was the actor Philip Morant (1909–1993). He was also a nephew of actors Bill and Linden Travers, and a cousin of actress Penelope Wilton. He enjoyed a long television and theatre career, first creating an impression as the bully Harry Flashman in a BBC adaptation of the Thomas Hughes novel, Tom Brown's Schooldays (1971), and followed this up with a regular role as Dr Dwight Enys in the popular BBC series of Poldark (1975).

Morant also appeared in several BBC classic serials, including adaptations of Walter Scott's (1973), as the future Charles II, and The Talisman (1980), as Conrade of Montserrat.

He played Robespierre in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982), and he later played Mervyn Bunter, the valet of Lord Peter Wimsey, in the BBC's productions of Strong Poison, Have His Carcase and Gaudy Night (all based on Dorothy Sayers's original novels). In 1988 he played Theodore Dyke Acland in the serial Jack the Ripper.

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