Richard Leaf

Richard Leaf
Born	(1967-01-01) 1 January 1967 (age 58) England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1986–present
Spouse	Tamsin Greig (m. 1997)
Children	3

Richard Leaf (born 1 January 1967) is an English actor.

He has had several small parts in television and stage productions. Leaf met actress Tamsin Greig at a wrap party after Neil Gaiman's 1996 miniseries Neverwhere finished recording. ^[1] They married in 1997 and they have three children. ^{[2] [3]} The actor is notable for his role as the Governor of York, nephew of King Edward I in Mel Gibson's Braveheart . He appeared as Hannibal Lecter's father in the 2007 film Hannibal Rising . ^[4] He also appeared as John Dawlish, an Auror, in the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , ^[5] and portrayed Jack, the bartender of the Cloverdilly public house, in the 2006 film Penelope .

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Braveheart	Governor of York
	Jack & Sarah	Stoned Man
	Cutthroat Island	Snake the Lookout
1996	Mary Reilly	Screaming Girl's Father
1997	The Fifth Element	Neighbour
	This Is the Sea	Pastor Lamthorn	Credited as Rick Leaf
	A spasso nel tempo – L'avventura continua	Capo esercito inglese
	Ecce Pirate	Ecce Pirate	Short film
1999	The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc	Conscience - Young Man
2000	Best	Constable Davies
	Maybe Baby	Justin Cocker
2001	Enigma	Baxter
2003	Extn. 21	Orman	Short film
	The Order	Sin Eater at St. Peters	AKA The Sin Eater
	The Man Who Drew Mice	Benson	Short films
2004	Beat	Leonard Skanes
2005	Derailed	Night Clerk Ray
2006	Penelope	Jack the Bartender
2007	The Seawatchers	Man	Short film
	Hannibal Rising	Father Lecter
	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	John Dawlish
2008	Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth	Colonel Regamun
2010	A Throw of the Dice	Fate	Short film. Credit only
2011	Stop the World	—	Short film. Writer and director
2019	The Friend	Matthew (voice)	Short films
2024	The Night Watch	Denton
2025	A Refugee	The Refugee	Short film. Also writer and producer

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Honor Thy Father	1st Killer	Television film
1989	Streetwise	Pawnbroker	Episode: "Money Talks"
1990	The Bill	Youth	Series 6; episode 26: "Beggars and Choosers"
	ScreenPlay Firsts	C.P. Ellis	Episode: "False Profit"
1990–1996	Jupiter Moon	Byron Wilkinson	Unknown episodes
1991	Trauma	Youth at Station	Television film
1992	Zorro	Reynaldo	Episode: "One Special Night"
1993	The Bill	Male Traveller	Series 9; episode 81: "Divided We Fall"
	15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight	Dr. Robert Jones	Television film
	The Buddha of Suburbia	Photographer	Mini-series; 2 episodes
1994	The Bill	Chris Perry	Series 10; episode 75: "Gate Fever"
	Heartbeat	Freddy	Episode: "Turn of the Tide"
1996	Neverwhere	Iliaster	Mini-series; 2 episodes: "Door" & "Knightsbridge"
	The Bill	Joey Simms	Series 12; episode 22: "Somebody's Home"
1997	A Dance to the Music of Time	Barnabas Henderson	Mini-series; episode: "Post War"
1998	Kavanagh QC	Martin Claydon	Episode: "Bearing Witness"
	Oktober	Bruno	Mini-series; 3 episodes
1999	Peak Practice	Dr. Patrick Berry	Episode: "Comrades in Arms"
2001	Relic Hunter	Village Priest	Episode: "Don't Go into the Woods"
	Shaka Zulu: The Citadel	(unknown)	2-part television film
2002	The Hidden City	Steven Matthews	Unknown episodes
	Silent Witness	Professor Henry Milton	Episode: "Closed Ranks: Part 1"
2004	Hardware	Daniel	Episode: "Nude"
	Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures	Gunman	Television docudrama film
2005	If...	Marc Pavel	Episode: "If... Drugs Were Legal"
	Look Around You	Husband	Episode: "Food"
	Under the Greenwood Tree	Thomas Leaf	Television film
2011	Midsomer Murders	Evan Jago	Episode: "The Sleeper Under the Hill"

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Company	Director	Notes
1990	Saint Joan	The Inquisitor	Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh	Charles Nowosielski	play by George Bernard Shaw [6]

External links

• Richard Leaf at IMDb

References

1. Mountford, Fiona (12 August 2012). "'Intriguing isn't it?': Tamsin Greig mulls over life's mysteries". The Independent . Retrieved 1 February 2020.
2. "Tamsin Greig on Friday Night Dinner series two, going grey and growing up" . Retrieved 14 January 2017.
3. Llewellyn Smith, Julia (2 September 2017). "Tamsin Greig: 'I'm 51, but I feel like an idiot teenager'". The Times . Retrieved 3 September 2017.
4. "BBC Three – Hannibal Rising". BBC. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
5. Gates, Anita (4 August 2017). "Robert Hardy, a Frequent Churchill and a 'Potter' Wizard, Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
6. 'Saints alive', review of Saint Joan by Sue Wilson, The List, Issue 131, 14–27 September 1990, p. 52