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Name: Brian Cant
Field:
Broadcaster
Productions:
Playing Away- Brian Cant
Biography: Brian’s career began in repertory. His television work started in classic serials and popular series such as Dr. Who, Z Cars, Dixon of Dock Green and many others. More recently he has been in The Doctors, Casualty and The Bill. His introduction to children’s TV was in Play School from which emerged Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Chigley, Bric-a-Brac and the hugely popular Play Away.
Theatre work includes The History of Tom Jones at the Belgrade Theatre Coventry. He played Frank Gibbons in Noel Coward’s This Happy Breed and Admiral Juddy in Rookery Nook at the Salisbury Playhouse. He also toured nationally playing the Vicar in Canterbury Tales.
Films include The Sandwich Man, Nothing but the Best and A Feast at Midnight.
He has recently appeared in An Ideal Husband, The Holly and the Ivy and Present Laughter and directed and appeared in The Railway Children, the latter co-directed with his wife, Cherry Britton, all for Middle Ground Theatre Company.
He appears in Dappledown Farm on Channel 4 and with his wife, has written two series of Mechanick and The Softies for Channel 5. He has appeared in ‘Teletubbies’. This Christmas he will be appearing in panto at Poole and is currently doing workshops at The Roald Dahl Museum.
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