Douglas Reith
Birthday
1953/07/16 (71 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Melton, Suffolk, England
Also know as
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Biography
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...Read more
Acting
(1978) International Velvet
as Howard
(2021) The War Below
as Field Marshal Haig
(2011) W.E.
as Lord Brownlow
(2022) Downton Abbey: A New Era
as Lord Merton
(1998) Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
as ---
(2006) The Queen
as Lord Airlie
(2025) Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
as Richard Grey
(1983) An Englishman Abroad
as Toby
(2009) Enid
as BBC Interviewer
(2013) Rush
as Awards Presenter
(2005) The Queen's Sister
as Horace Featherstonehaugh
(2015) Serial Teachers 2
as Le chef de la sécurité
(2019) Dumbo
as Sotheby
(2019) Downton Abbey
as Lord Merton
(2021) SAS: Red Notice
as Sir Charles Whiteside
(1980) The Happy Autumn Fields
as Fitzgeorge
(2021) Professor T
as Dean
(1979) Minder
as Bellars
(2002) Rose and Maloney
as ---
(2010) Downton Abbey
as Lord Merton
(2017) Fearless
as Justice Angus Hill
(2014) Outlander
as Professor Brown
(2005) Elizabeth I
as Jude
(2005) Elizabeth I
as Judge
(1996) The Prince and the Pauper
as Chamberlain
(2019) Pandora
as Prescott Fleming
(2016) Agatha Raisin
as Lord Pendlebury
(2016) The Crown
as Admiral Leach
(2006) Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
as Metellus