Acting

Douglas Reith

Born July 16, 1953 · Melton, Suffolk, England, UK (age 73)

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 an…

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Rush

MovieDramaAction

In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.

Dumbo

MovieFamilyFantasy

A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Downton Abbey: A New Era · 2022

Downton Abbey: A New Era

MovieDramaRomance

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to film his latest production at Downton.

Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey · 2019

MovieDramaRomance

The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance.

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale · 2025

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

MovieDramaRomance

When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.

SAS: Red Notice

SAS: Red Notice · 2021

SAS: Red Notice

MovieDramaAction

An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the difference as to whether Buckingham and the civilian passengers make it out of the tunnel alive.

The Queen

The Queen · 2006

MovieDramaHistory

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.

W.E.

MovieDramaRomance

In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.

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Rush

MovieDramaAction

In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.

Awards Presenter

Dumbo

MovieFamilyFantasy

A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.

Sotheby

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Downton Abbey: A New Era · 2022

Downton Abbey: A New Era

MovieDramaRomance

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to film his latest production at Downton.

Lord Merton

Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey · 2019

MovieDramaRomance

The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance.

Lord Merton

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale · 2025

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

MovieDramaRomance

When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.

Lord Merton

SAS: Red Notice

SAS: Red Notice · 2021

SAS: Red Notice

MovieDramaAction

An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the difference as to whether Buckingham and the civilian passengers make it out of the tunnel alive.

Sir Charles Whiteside

The Queen

The Queen · 2006

MovieDramaHistory

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.

Lord Airlie

W.E.

MovieDramaRomance

In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.

Lord Brownlow

The War Below

The War Below · 2021

During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.

Field Marshal Haig

International Velvet

International Velvet · 1978

International Velvet

MovieDramaFamily

Sarah Brown is sent to England after her parents die in a car crash. There, she lives with her aunt Velvet who introduces Sarah to the world of equestrian competition and gives her the last foal of her own prize horse, The Pie. Under the watchful eye of her aunt and horse trainer Capt. Johnson, Sarah develops into a talented rider who might have a shot at the Olympics.

Howard

Serial Teachers 2

Serial Teachers 2 · 2015

Serial Teachers 2

The worst teachers of France landed in England for an ultra-secret mission. With Boulard, the King of the Dunces, they are parachuted in the best school of the country, and they will apply their famous methods on the future of the nation.

Le chef de la sécurité

An Englishman Abroad

An Englishman Abroad · 1983

An Englishman Abroad

MovieDramaTV Movie

Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.

Toby

Enid

MovieDramaHistory

A poignant biography of one of the most successful and wildly-read writers of the 20th century. Her stories enthralled children everywhere but her personal struggles often proved too much.

BBC Interviewer

The Queen's Sister

The Queen's Sister · 2005

The Queen's Sister

MovieTV MovieComedy

An in-depth biopic of Princess Margaret from the days following her father's death in 1952 until the 1970s. She was known to be a flamboyant royal but she remained a stickler for protocol. She had many controversial romances and also infamously kissed the daughter of the US ambassador. Also the film gives some focus on what others thought of Margaret, from normal people of the era to a backbench MP opposed to her 1961 wedding. Written by Reece Lloyd

Horace Featherstonehaugh

The Happy Autumn Fields

The Happy Autumn Fields · 1980

The Happy Autumn Fields

Time is playing tricks on Mary. Around her the walls are crumbling- all the houses are being pulled down. Why does she insist on staying, caught in a dream about a family, years ago, out walking in the fields after the harvest? And who was Sarah, that beautiful young girl, whose sister couldn't bear that she was in love?

Fitzgeorge

Amy

MovieHistoryTV Movie

A tale of real-life British aviation pioneer Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia, who would later mysteriously disappear.

Jimmy Martin

Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord

Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord · 1998

Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord

MovieMysteryTV Movie

Follows the discoveries of reporters after the disappearance of the 7th Earl of Lucan, Richard John Bingham after the murder of his children's nanny.

Outlander

Outlander · 2014

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Professor Brown

The Crown

The Crown · 2016

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

Admiral Leach

Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey · 2010

A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.

Lord Merton

Minder

SeriesComedyDrama

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

Bellars

Professor T

Professor T · 2021

SeriesCrimeMystery

Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, advises the police. British version of the Belgian crime drama of the same name.

Dean

Playhouse

Playhouse · 1974

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

Fitzgeorge

Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey · 1975

Rumpole of the Bailey

SeriesDramaComedy

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

Sergeant Downs

Agatha Raisin

Agatha Raisin · 2016

SeriesComedyMystery

Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder in her deceptively quaint town.

Lord Pendlebury

Rentaghost

Rentaghost · 1976

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyFamily

After his death, Fred Mumford wants a second chance at achieving the success that eluded him in life. Coming back to Earth as a spirit, he recruits a Victorian gent and a medieval jester to set up 'Rentaghost', a supernatural service for wanted hauntings.

Auctioneer

Pandora

Pandora · 2019

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

In the year 2199, a young woman who has lost everything finds a new life at Earth's Space Training Academy where she learns to defend the galaxy from intergalactic threats.

Prescott Fleming

Rose and Maloney

Rose and Maloney · 2002

Rose and Maloney

SeriesCrimeDrama

Investigators Rose Linden and Marion Maloney, of the Criminal Justice Review Agency, take on claims of miscarriages of justice, assessing whether there are grounds to reopen old cases.

Sir Andrew Ross

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire · 2006

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

SeriesDocumentary

Turning points in ancient Roman history and some of the Empire's greatest stories are brought to life in this drama documentary series.

Metellus

Fearless

Fearless · 2017

SeriesDramaCrime

Emma Banville, a human rights lawyer known for defending lost causes, sets out to prove the innocence of Kevin Russell, who was convicted for the murder of a school girl 14 years earlier.

Justice Angus Hill

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I · 2005

The reign of Elizabeth I of England and her relationships with the Earl of Leicester and the Earl of Essex.

Jude

The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper · 1996

The Prince and the Pauper

A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well. The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain's novel about adventure and intrigue in the court of Henry VIII.

Chamberlain