
Melton, Suffolk, England, UK
Douglas Reith is a British actor and teacher. He is best known for his role as Lord Merton in the television series Downton Abbey (2010–2015), as well as its two follow-up films. Reith was born in Melton, Suffolk. He studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He began acting in the late 1970s, beginning with an appearance in International Velvet (1978) alongside Tatum O'Neal and Christopher Plummer. He worked as an announcer and presenter at BBC Radio 3 for five years before leaving to study Greats at Christ Church, Oxford for four years beginning in 1989. He worked as a teacher, including at Westminster School, before resuming his acting career. Reith joined the cast of Downton Abbey as Lord Merton in 2012, and alongside the cast was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series at the 23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards. He reprised the role in the films Downton Abbey (2019) and Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022). In 2017, Reith was cast in Tim Burton's live-action remake Dumbo (2019). In 2019, he was cast in SAS: Red Notice (2021).

as Lord Merton

as Professor Brown
2014

as Admiral Leach
2016

as Lord Merton
2010

as Bellars
1979

as Sergeant Downs
1975

as Fitzgeorge
1974

as Lord Pendlebury
2016

as Awards Presenter
2013

as Dean
2021

as Prescott Fleming
2019

as Lord Merton
2019

as Metellus
2006
as Field Marshal Haig
2021

as Lord Merton
2025

as Lord Merton
2022

as Field Marshal Haig
2021

as Sir Charles Whiteside
2021

as Lord Merton
2019

as Sotheby
2019

as Le chef de la sécurité
2015

as Awards Presenter
2013

as Lord Brownlow
2011

as BBC Interviewer
2009

as Lord Airlie
2006

as Horace Featherstonehaugh
2005

1998

as Jimmy Martin
1984

as Toby
1983

as Fitzgeorge
1980

as Howard
1978
as Lord Merton
8 ep.

as Professor Brown
1 episodes

as Admiral Leach
1 episodes

as Lord Merton
8 episodes

as Bellars
1 episodes

as Sergeant Downs
1 episodes

as Fitzgeorge
1 episodes

as Lord Pendlebury
1 episodes

as Dean
24 episodes

as Prescott Fleming
1 episodes

as Metellus
1 episodes

as Justice Angus Hill
6 episodes

as Sir Andrew Ross
1 episodes

as Judge
2 episodes
as Ferris
1 episodes

as Chamberlain
6 episodes