William Gaunt
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- This article is about the actor. for the artist and art historian, see William Gaunt (art historian)
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William Charles Anthony Gaunt (born 3 April 1937 in Pudsey, Yorkshire) is an English actor, sometimes credited as Bill Gaunt.
His father was a lawyer and he attended Giggleswick School and RADA. He then spent 3 years working in repertory theatre.
After minor roles in series such as Z Cars, The Avengers, and Edgar Wallace Mysteries throughout the early 1960s, he found fame as the super-powered secret agent Richard Barrett in the 1968 British espionage/science fiction adventure series The Champions.
In the early 1980s he starred as harassed father Arthur Crabtree in the sitcom No Place Like Home. He subsequently made many guest appearances in other series such as Juliet Bravo and Doctor Who (Revelation of the Daleks). From 1995 to 1997, he starred in the sitcom Next of Kin opposite Penelope Keith.
He starred in the 2004 Doctor Who audio series Dalek Empire III.
He also has extensive stage experience, both as an actor and a theatre director, including a notable success in playing the Micheál MacLiammóir character in Gates of Gold by Frank McGuinness at the Finborough Theatre, London, and in the West End.
He appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Seagull (sharing the role of Sorin with Ian McKellen) and King Lear (as Gloucester) at the New London Theatre in Drury Lane, London, following a United Kingdom tour. He will also appear as Gloucester in the TV film of the same name, to be released late in 2008.
[edit] Background
Gaunt was born in Pudsey, West Yorkshire. He married actress Carolyn Lyster on 7 September 1974. They have a daughter Matilda and a son Albert.
