William Gaunt

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1937-04-03 (88 years old)

Place of Birth

Pudsey, Yorkshire, England, UK

William Gaunt

Biography

William Charles Anthony Gaunt (born 3 April 1937 in Pudsey, Yorkshire) is an English actor. Gaunt's father was a lawyer. Gaunt attended Giggleswick School and Baylor University, Texas, and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He then spent three years working in repertory theatre at Worthing, Bath, Salisbury and Cheltenham. He then spent a year in America and returned to direct productions at Birmingham, Coventry and Cheltenham, interrupted by a spell in the army. After minor roles in 1960s series such as Z-Cars and The Avengers, and the Edgar Wallace Mysteries movies The Sinister Man (1961) and Solo for Sparrow (1962), he gained a ro...

Acting

2008

King Lear

as Earl of Gloucester

2015

The Timber

as Jebediah

1996

The Preventers

as Controller

2014

The Crucible

as Giles Corey

2017

A Woman of No Importance

as Reverend Daubeny

1962

Solo for Sparrow

as Detective Sergeant Reeve

1981

No Visible Scar

as Patrick Witney

2012

Rufus Stone

as Rufus Stone

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