Gant, David

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GANT, David

PERSONAL

Addresses: Agent— Peters Fraser & Dunlop, Drury House, 34–43 Russell St., London WC2B 5HA, United Kingdom.

Career: Actor.

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

Police commissioner, Babylon, 1980.

Henry Tonks, Mark Gertler Fragments of a Biography, 1981.

Restaurant manager, Victor/Victoria, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 1982.

KGB official, Firefox, Warner Bros., 1982.

Aquascutum assistant, Moonlighting (also known as Schwarzarbeit ), Universal Classics, 1982.

Daniels, Gandhi (also known as Richard Attenborough's Film: Gandhi ), Columbia, 1982.

Mr. Seymour, The Draughtsman's Contract, United Artists Classics, 1982.

Clergyman in church, The Wicked Lady, Cannon Film Distributors, 1983.

Interview official, Brazil, Universal, 1985.

Broker, Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale, 1989.

London maitre d', Chaplin (also known as Charlot ), TriStar, 1992.

Royal magistrate, Braveheart, Paramount, 1995.

Chiffinch, Restoration, Miramax, 1995.

Antique Shop Owner, Deja vu, Rainbow Releasing, 1997.

Bolognetti, Dangerous Beauty (also known as The Honest Courtesan and A Destiny of Her Own ), Warner Bros., 1998.

Conductor (Oxford), Le violon rouge (also known as The Red Violin and Il violino rosso ), 1998.

Photographer, Greenwich Mean Time (also known as G:mt ), 1999.

The Duke of Bedford, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (also known as Joan of Arc and Jeanne d'Arc ), Columbia, 1999.

Major Warren, Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India (also known as Lagaan and Land Tax ), Sony Pictures Classics, 2001.

Victor, S Club Seeing Double, Columbia TriStar, 2003.

Old priest, Dracula II: Ascension (also known as Wes Craven Presents Dracula II: Ascension ), Buena Vista Home Video, 2003.

Harvey, Oh Marbella!, 2003.

Two Brothers, Universal, 2004.

Maddox, Cold and Dark, 2004.

Television Appearances; Series:

Eldred, Sapphire and Steel, ITV, 1981.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Chief commander, Harem, ABC, 1986.

Older Ogilvie, Aristocrats, BBC1 and PBS, 1999.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Fouquet, The Scarlet Pimpernel, CBS, 1982.

Gallery owner, Clothes in the Wardrobe (also known as The Summer House ), BBC, 1992.

Mr. Brocklehurst, Jane Eyre (also known as Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre ), Arts and Entertainment, 1997.

Gypsy, The Garden of Redemption, Showtime, 1997.

Alexander Cameron, Murder Rooms: The White Knight Stratagem, BBC, 2001.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Headmaster, A Pattern of Roses, Channel 4, 1983.

Television Appearances; Pilots:

Geoffrey Parkes, The Peter Principle (also known as The Boss ), BBC, 1995.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Noel Simpson, "Break–In," The Gentle Touch, ITV, 1980.

Reverend Geoffrey Boyd, "Fat Chance," Inspector Morse, ITV, 1991, later broadcast on Mystery!, PBS, 2003.

"Ear Today ... Gone Tomorrow," Tales from the Crypt, HBO, 1996.

Talbot, "A Cage for Satan: Part 2," Bugs, 1996.

Merlin, "Sir Caradoc at the Round Table," MythQuest, PBS, 2001.

Also appeared as Merlin, "Return to Camelot," The New Adventures of Robin Hood, TNT and syndicated.

Television Appearances; Other:

Appeared as Professor Watters, Legend of the Lost Keys, BBC; Oscar McClog, Toxic Monster, BBC; Zatopeek, My Family and Other Animals, BBC; Reverend Glenie, Moonfleet, BBC; Frank, The Chelsea Murders.

Stage Appearances:

Appeared as Lear, King Lear, Southwark Playhouse; Priuli, Venice Preserved, Royal Exchange Theatre; narrator, The Snow Queen, Gulbenkian Theatre; Blunt and Tailor, Single Spies, Swan Theatre, Worcester, England; Fisher, Ravings: Dreamings, Library Theatre, Manchester, England; La, All's Well That Ends Well, Reverend Halpern, Harvest, the Dean, Nightshade, ensemble member, American Clock, and in Measure for Measure, all Birmingham Repertory; Simon Barnes, Mary Barnes,Theatr Clwyd; Major Magnus, Real Inspector Hound, Theatr Clwyd; Simon Barnes, Mary Barnes, Royal Court Theatre; ensemble member, Private Lives of the Third Reich, Open Space Theatre, London; Malvolio, Twelfth Night, Raof, Spring and Port Wine, and Stiggins, Thee and Me, all Duke's Playhouse, Lancaster, England; ensemble member, Salad Days, magistrate, Toad of Toad Hall, Pickering, My Fair Lady, Maingot, French Without Tears, and in The True Story of the Titanic, all Crucible, Sheffield, England; in The Wasp Factory, West Yorkshire Playhouse; School for Wives, English Touring Theatre; The Rivals, Century Theatre and Crewe; Coriolanus, Chichester Festival Theatre; The Price, Oxford Stage Company; The Struggle of the Dogs and the Black, Traverse; Nothing Sacred, Theatr Clywd; Hamlet, The Bells, Drums in the Night, and Broken Heart, all Haymarket, Leicester, England; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist and Passion Play, both Playhouse, Liverpool, England; Playing with Fire, Abel Barebone, Dead Men, and The Country Wife, all Traverse; The Tempest, Duet for One, and Hunchback of Notre Dame, all Coventry, Belgrade; The Tempest, Ludlow Festival; An Honourable Trade, Royal Court; After Magritte, Theatr Clwyd; The Devil is an Ass, National.