Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 16, 1953
Place of Birth
Melton, Suffolk, England, UK
Credits
32 titles
Douglas Reith
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 leaving to study Greats at Christ Church, Oxford for four years beginning in 1989. He worked as a teacher, including at Westminster School, before resuming his acting career. Reith joined the cast of Downton Abbey as Lord Merton in 2012, and alongside the cast was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series at the 23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards. He reprised the role in the films Downton Abbey (2019) and Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022). In 2017, Reith was cast in Tim Burton's live-action remake Dumbo (2019). In 2019, he was cast in SAS: Red Notice (2021).
Known For
Filmography
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Lord Merton
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Lord Merton
The War Below
Field Marshal Haig
SAS: Red Notice
Sir Charles Whiteside
Professor T
Dean
Downton Abbey
Lord Merton
Pandora
Prescott Fleming
Dumbo
Sotheby
Fearless
Justice Angus Hill
The Crown
Admiral Leach
Agatha Raisin
Lord Pendlebury
Serial Teachers 2
Le chef de la sécurité
Outlander
Professor Brown
Rush
Awards Presenter
W.E.
Lord Brownlow
Downton Abbey
Lord Merton
Enid
BBC Interviewer
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Metellus
The Queen
Lord Airlie
The Queen's Sister
Horace Featherstonehaugh
Elizabeth I
Jude
Rose and Maloney
Sir Andrew Ross
Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
The Prince and the Pauper
Chamberlain
Cold Warrior
Ferris
Amy
Jimmy Martin
An Englishman Abroad
Toby
The Happy Autumn Fields
Fitzgeorge
Minder
Bellars
International Velvet
Howard
Rumpole of the Bailey
Sergeant Downs
Playhouse
Fitzgeorge