Richard Lintern

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. 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. He played Thomas Chamberlain, the head of the Lyell Centre in The BBC series Silent Witness. Lintern departed Silent Witness on February 5th 2020 after 7 years.

Lintern was born in Taunton, Somerset. He studied English Literature at Durham University as a member of Van Mildert College, graduating with a 2:1 degree in 1984. He subsequently won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

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