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Richard Charles Lintern (born 8 October 1962) is an English stage, voice and screen actor.

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Richard Lintern
Lintern in Alpbach, Austria
Born	Richard Charles Lintern (1962-10-08) 8 October 1962 (age 60) Taunton, Somerset, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1987–present
Children	3

Early life

Lintern was born in Taunton, Somerset. He studied English Literature at Durham University.[1] He subsequently won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Career

Lintern has an extensive stage career, spending most professional time in the West End and the Royal National Theatre. He has appeared across the UK, including roles at the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court Theatre The Merchant of Venice at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Hamlet at the Bristol Old Vic. As well as many TV shows, including Lead Balloon, Screenplay, The Beggar Bride, Covington Cross, Midsomer Murders "Picture of Innocence", Cadfael, Lewis, She's Out, Demob, The Storyteller, Victoria Wood, The Line of Beauty, Forever Green, The Good Guys, The Bill, Casualty, Plotlands, Heartbeat, Performance, Holding the Baby, Bloodlines, which is loosely based on the life and disappearance of Lord Lucan,[2] Taggart, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Agatha Christie's Poirot "Dead Man's Mirror" and "Mrs.McGinty's Dead".

Lintern played a young Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the 1998 film Jinnah, and an American police officer in the 1998 film Lost Souls. In 2003, Lintern also played the leading Pharisee in the word for word Bible film The Gospel of John. He also starred in the 2007 gay drama film by Channel 4 Clapham Junction, where he played Will, who is entering a civil partnership.[3] He was also in The Bank Job in 2008 playing an MI5 officer ordered to retrieve the embarrassing proceeds of a bank robbery in 1970s London. Other films include Syriana, Page Eight, Malaventura, and The Calling. Lintern also appeared in the third series of the television drama, The House of Eliott. In 2011 he appeared in the BBC series The Shadow Line, and in 2012 in Hunted for BBC One and HBO. He played Hector Stokes.[4] He played Thomas Chamberlain, the head of the Lyell Centre in The BBC series Silent Witness. Lintern departed Silent Witness on 5 February 2020, after 7 years.

Lintern has played two different characters in Heartbeat. The first was in the episode Love's Sweet Dream, in which he played Ray Richards, a violent and abusive husband. He was later cast as Ben Norton, estate manager to Lord Ashfordly, who marries the village doctor.

Richard Lintern is also a voice-over artist, having voiced commercials for Gillette, Ferrero Rocher, Mercedes and Film4. He is the narrator of a number of documentary series including the BAFTA-winning Between Life and Death.

Personal life

Lintern is married and has three sons. The family lives in London and Somerset.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Agatha Christie's Poirot	John Lake	Episode: Dead Man's Mirror
1998	Jinnah	Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Younger)
	Lost Souls	Graham Scofield
2000	The Calling	Marc St.Clair
2003	The Gospel of John	Leading Pharisee
2003- 2005	Heartbeat	Ben Norton
2005	Syriana	Bryan's Boss
2006	Natasha
	The Line of Beauty
2007	Clapham Junction	Will
	Cassandra's Dream	Director
	Lewis
2008	The Bank Job	Tim Everett
	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Guy Carpenter	Episode: Mrs McGinty's Dead
2009	Unmade Beds	Anthony Hemmings
2011	The Suspicions of Mr Whicher	Henry Ludlow
	The Shadow Line	DCS Richard Patterson
	Page Eight	Max Vallance
2012	Endeavour
	White Heat	Miles
	Hunted	Hector Stokes
2013	Spies of Warsaw	Colonel Lessard	4 episodes
2014–2020	Silent Witness	Dr Thomas Chamberlain
2015	Foyle's War	Charles Lucas	Episode: "Trespass"
2017	The Crown	Stephen Ward	Episode: "Mystery Man"
2020	Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators	Stephen Capulet	Episode 3.9 "O Thou Invisible of Wine"

References

External links

• Richard Lintern at IMDb

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Richard Charles Lintern (* 8. Oktober 1962 in Taunton, Somerset) ist ein englischer Theater- und Filmschauspieler.

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