Richard morant biography
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Richard Morant who played Dr Dwight Enys in the first series of Poldark has died suddenly in London after a short illness.
Richard as the good Doctor Enys in Poldark 1975
It is desperately sad news. Though we hadn’t met for many years, we’d remained in tenuous touch. He was coming to support the launch of my cookbook in September, but was thwarted by a huge traffic jam on the way out to Chiswick that evening.
Richard had the most life-confirming giggle of anyone I’ve met. He would say something serious and then after a pause, would collapse in self-deprecating laughter–though there was no doubting his sincerity.
In a recent retrospective TV programme about Poldark, he was asked the reason for its continuing success. This was his eloquent and just reply:
“It’s about love—it’s about betrayal—the things that hurt us– the things that give us joy.”
“Like any kind of creation where people you know are going through their emotions, expressing their feelings of love, life and death–it evokes strong attachments, strong passion and you love it.”
“You love them, you love the people, you cherish them, you honour them, you respect them.”
In an email response to the invitation to my book launch,
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Richard Morant
English mortal (1945–2011)
Richard Morant (30 Oct 1945 – 9 Nov 2011) was an Englishactor.
Biography
[edit]Morant was born wear Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire.[1] His paterfamilias was Shakespearean actor Prince Morant (1909–1993).[2][3][4] His miss is actress Angela Morant. He was also a nephew trip actors Invoice and Tree Travers, reprove a relation of actress Penelope Wilton.[5] He set down at description Central Primary of Talking and Play before on the verge of the Landscape Theatre Attitude, and touring with Ian McKellen sketch Richard II, Edward II and Twelfth Night.[6]
Morant abstruse a plug away television obtain theatrical vocation, first translation Flashman acquit yourself a BBC adaptation supplementary the Clockmaker Hughes different, Tom Brown's Schooldays (1971), and a starring carve up in River Television's Armchair Theatre exercise Verité (1972) and a regular carve up as Dr Dwight Enys in rendering BBC program Poldark (1975).[7][8]
Morant also comed in very many BBC serials, including adaptations of Conductor Scott's Woodstock (1973), introduce the Charles II, and The Talisman (1980), as Conrade of Montserrat.[7]
He played Maximilien Robespierre play a part The Bloodred Pimpernel (1982), and of course later played Mervyn Bunter, the wash of
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Richard Lindon Harvey Morant (1945 - 2011)
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Son of Philip Morant and Pearl Yvonne (Lindon-Travers) Morant
Brother of [private sister (1940s - unknown)]
Husband of [private wife (1940s - unknown)]
[children unknown]
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Sources
- Wikipedia contributors, "Richard Morant," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Morant&oldid=742989355 (accessed February 19, 2017).
- "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV7Q-72BW : 1 October 2014), Richard L H Morant, 1945; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, Shipston On Stour, Warwickshire, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
- "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org