Richard Cant

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Richard Cant (born 1964) is a British actor. He is the son of actor and children's television presenter Brian Cant.^[1]

Cant appeared twice 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 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 played Detective Sergeant Ben Jones.^{[citation needed]} Cant had previously appeared with Jason Hughes in an episode of the BBC 2 TV series This Life, where he played Phil, a friend of Hughes's character, Warren.^{[citation needed]}

Other television and film appearances include ^{[citation needed]} " Stan and Ollie", "Mary, Queen of Scots", 'The Crown", "It's a Sin", The Way We Live Now, Bleak House, Gimme Gimme Gimme, and Gunpowder Treason and Plot. In 2007 he appeared in an episode of Doctor Who, "Blink".^[2]

He has worked on stage for The National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court, Cheek by Jowl, and Sheffield Crucible.^{[citation needed]}

He appeared as Friedrich in War Horse at the New London Theatre.^{[citation needed]}

Cant was born in Dartford, Kent in 1964.^[3] In June 2023, Richard Coles said he was in a relationship with Cant.^[4]

• This Life (1996)
• Midsomer Murders (1997) & (2006)
• Gimme Gimme Gimme (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)
• Vexed (2010)
• Mapp & Lucia (2014)
• The Crown (2020)
• It's A Sin (2021)
• Mary, Queen Of Scots (2018)
• Stan and Ollie (2019)

• As You Like It / Cymbeline/ Troilus and Cressida (Cheek by Jowl)
• War Horse (2012/13, NT at New London Theatre)
• Salome (Headlong)
• The Country Wife (Sheffield Crucible)
• Orlando (West End)
• Handbagged/ Wife (Kiln)
• The Vortex (Chichester)
• Henry The Sixth / Maydays / Hamlet (RSC)
• Normal Heart/ Mr Gum And The Dancing Bear (NT)
• Medea (Almeida)
• The Trial (Young Vic)
• After Edward/ Edward The Second (Globe)
• What It Means (Wilton's)

• Richard Cant at IMDb

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