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Profile of Richard Morant
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Richard Morant |
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30th October 1945 |
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Shipton-on-Stour, Warwickshire, England, UK |
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Richard Morant (born October 30, 1945 in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, United Kingom) is a British actor.
Morant is a nephew of the actor Bill Travers and the actress Linden Travers and a cousin of the actress Penelope Wilton and Lindy Wilton, he has enjoyed a long television and theatre career. He created an impression as the bully 'Flashman' in a BBC1 adaptation of the Thomas Hughes novel Tom Brown's Schooldays (1972) and followed this up with a regular role as 'Dr Dwight Enys' in the popular BBC series of Poldark (1975). Later he played Bunter to Edward Petherbridge's Lord Peter Wimsey. His stage appearances have included a starring role in Noel Coward's Private Lives at the Oxford Playhouse in 1984.
His first wife was the actress Melissa Fairbanks, a daughter of the actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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