Richard Cant

Richard Cant is a British actor, best known for his roles in the hit ITV1 television series Midsomer Murders.

He is the son of actress Mary Gibson and actor and children's television presenter Brian Cant ^[1]

He made two appearances on the long running murder mystery series Midsomer Murders, appearing in the 1997 pilot episode The Killings at Badger's Drift as undertaker Dennis Rainbird, alongside Elizabeth Spriggs who played his mother, and then again as Dennis Rainbird's cousin, Alistair Gooding, in the 2006 story Dead Letters. In the second story he appeared alongside Jason Hughes, who plays Detective Sergeant Ben Jones; Cant had previously appeared with Hughes in an episode of the cult BBC 2 TV series This Life, where he played Phil, a gay friend of Hughes's character Warren.

In 2007 he appeared in an episode of Doctor Who, "Blink" ^[2] Also in series "The Way We Live Now", "Bleak House","Gimme Gimme Gimme", "Gunpowder Treason and Plot" and many others. He has worked on stage for The RSC, Royal Court, Cheek by Jowl and Sheffield Crucible among many others

Cant also directed regularly at Arts Educational School of Acting since 2001 including An Experiment With an Air Pump,"Cause Celebre", "Roberto Zucco" and "Don Juan Comes Back From The War".

He most recently appeared on stage in Cheek by Jowl's theatre production of Troilus and Cressida at London's Barbican Theatre.

Selected work (TV)

• This Life (1996)
• Midsomer Murders (1997) & (2006)
• Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (1999)
• Sunburn (1999)
• Lawless Heart (2001)
• The Way We Live Now (2001)
• Shackleton (2002)
• Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (2005)
• Bleak House (2005)
• Sparkle (2007)
• Doctor Who (2007)
• The Bill (2008)

Selected stage work

• War Horse (2012, New London Theatre)

References

External links

• Richard Cant at the Internet Movie Database
• Richard Cant Facebook page

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