Douglas Reith
- Schauspiel
- 16. Juli 1953 · Melton, Suffolk, England, UK
Biografie
Douglas Reith is a British actor and teacher. He is best known for his role as Lord Merton in the television series Downton Abbey (2010–2015), as well as its two follow-up films. Reith was born in Melton, Suffolk. He studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He began acting in the late 1970s, beginning with an appearance in International Velvet (1978) alongside Tatum O'Neal and Christopher Plummer. He worked as an announcer and presenter at BBC Radio 3 for five years before leaving to study Greats at Christ Church, Oxford for four years beginning in 1989. He worked as a teacher, including at Westminster School, before resuming his acting career. Reith joined the cast of Downton Abbey as Lord Merton in 2012, and alongside the cast was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series at the 23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards. He reprised the role in the films Downton Abbey (2019) and Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022). In 2017, Reith was cast in Tim Burton's live-action remake Dumbo (2019). In 2019, he was cast in SAS: Red Notice (2021).
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Filmografie
- Downton Abbey: Das große Finale · Lord Merton
- Downton Abbey II: Eine neue Ära · Lord Merton
- The War Below · Field Marshal Haig
- SAS: Alarm im Eurotunnel · Sir Charles Whiteside
- Professor T · Dean, Wilfred Hamilton / The Dean
- Downton Abbey · Lord Merton
- Pandora · Prescott Fleming
- Dumbo · Sotheby
- Fearless · Justice Angus Hill
- The Crown · Admiral Leach
- Agatha Raisin · Lord Pendlebury
- Les Profs 2 · Le chef de la sécurité
- Outlander · Professor Brown
- Rush - Alles für den Sieg · Awards Presenter
- W.E. - Die Romanze des Jahrhunderts · Lord Brownlow
- Downton Abbey · Lord Merton
- Enid · BBC Interviewer
- Rom und seine großen Herrscher · Metellus
- Die Queen · Lord Airlie
- The Queen's Sister · Horace Featherstonehaugh
- Elizabeth I · Judge
- Rose and Maloney · Sir Andrew Ross
- Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
- The Prince and the Pauper · Chamberlain
- Cold Warrior · Ferris
- Amy · Jimmy Martin
- An Englishman Abroad · Toby
- The Happy Autumn Fields · Fitzgeorge
- Der Aufpasser · Bellars
- Alles Glück dieser Erde · Howard
- Rentaghost · Auctioneer
- Rumpole of the Bailey · Sergeant Downs
- Playhouse · Fitzgeorge