Richard Council

Richard E. Council is an American actor of film, television and stage who was raised on the family farm in Florida and began in the theater in the 1970s. His early stage credits included an early role in Sherlock Holmes in 1974 opposite John Wood, plus Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, staged at Long Wharf Theatre, and in 1979 he joined the Lexington Conservatory Theatre for the world premiere of Oakley Hall III's Grinder's Stand, followed by a lead role in Of Mice and Men. On Broadway he appeared in Herb Gardner's I'm Not Rappaport and Conversations with My Father, and in plays directed by Ellis Rabb, among them The Philadelphia Story, The Royal Family and The Merchant of Venice. He took a role at Lincoln Center Theater opposite Stockard Channing in The Little Foxes. On television he played Michael Blake on Love of Life from 1976 to 1978, and his films include Canadian Bacon (1995) and I'm Not Rappaport (1996).