- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- April 3, 1937
- Place of Birth
- Pudsey, Yorkshire, England, UK
William Gaunt
William Charles Anthony Gaunt (born 3 April 1937 in Pudsey, Yorkshire) is an English actor. Gaunt's father was a lawyer. Gaunt attended Giggleswick School and Baylor University, Texas, and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He then spent three years working in repertory theatre at Worthing, Bath, Salisbury and Cheltenham. He then spent a year in America and returned to direct productions at Birmingham, Coventry and Cheltenham, interrupted by a spell in the army. After minor roles in 1960s series such as Z-Cars and The Avengers, and the Edgar Wallace Mysteries movies The Sinister Man (1961) and Solo for Sparrow (1962), he gained a role as the super-powered secret agent Richard Barrett in the 1968 British espionage/science fiction series The Champions. He had also appeared in a recurring role in Sergeant Cork following policemen in Victorian London. Between 1983 and 1987 he star…
Filmography
tvRemembers…
2022 · Self
movieThe Tragedy of Macbeth
2021
movieA Woman of No Importance
2017 · Reverend Daubeny
movieRichard II - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2015 · John of Gaunt
movieThe Timber
2015 · Jebediah
movieThe Crucible
2014 · Giles Corey
movieRufus Stone
2012 · Rufus Stone
movieHenry IV, Part 2 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2012 · Shallow
movieHenry IV, Part 1 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2012 · Worcester
tvWithout You
2011 · Paul Manning
movieRoger Delgado: The Master
2009
movieKing Lear
2008 · Earl of Gloucester
tvThe Vice
1999 · Chivers
tvMidsomer Murders
1997 · Michael Bannerman, Ludo DeQuetteville
movieThe Preventers
1996 · Controller
movieThe All New Adventures of Mr Blobby
1996
tvNext of Kin
1995
tvHeartbeat
1992 · Charles Robertson
tvG.B.H.
1991 · Hunningdon
Capstick's Law
1989 · Edward Capstick
A Gentleman's Club
1988 · Aubrey
Open Air
1986
tvCasualty
1986 · Malc Stroud
movieDoctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1985 · Orcini
tvThe Far Pavilions
1984 · Commissioner
Love and Marriage
1984 · Phillip Merrick
tvNo Place Like Home
1983 · Arthur Crabtree
Claire
1982 · Tony Hunter
tvThe Agatha Christie Hour
1982 · Major Charles Wilbraham
movieNo Visible Scar
1981 · Patrick Witney
tvThe Enigma Files
1980 · Bert (Blowtorch)
tvNobody's House
1976 · Peter Sinclair
tvState of Emergency
1975 · Colonel Singleton
tvWodehouse Playhouse
1974
Dial M for Murder
1974 · Alex Ferguson
tvCrown Court
1972 · Edward Cummings
tvHolly
1972 · Gordon Godolphin
The Ten Commandments
1971 · Bill Williams
Menace
1970 · Lord
movieThe Revolutionary
1970
tvPaul Temple
1969
tvThe Champions
1968 · Richard Barrett
tvThe Wednesday Play
1964 · Peter
tvDoctor Who
1963 · Orcini
tvSergeant Cork
1963 · Bob Marriott
tvThe Saint
1962 · Mike
movieAfternoon of a Nymph
1962 · Romeo
movieSolo for Sparrow
1962 · Detective Sergeant Reeve
tvOut of This World
1962 · Bill Sheridan
movieThe Winter's Tale
1962 · Dion
tvZ-Cars
1962
movieThe Sinister Man
1961 · Mitch Hallam
tvThe Avengers
1961
tvArmchair Theatre
1956 · Romeo