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==Biography==
Ryecart was born in Warwickshire. His first West End appearance was in Bernard Shaw's Candida at the Albery Theatre, playing the young poet Marchbanks opposite Deborah Kerr, directed by Michael Blakemore. Among a string of fine reviews Bernard Levin in the Sunday Times described his performance as "supernova" and that he had not seen "such a talent in embryo since the young Richard Burton". Ryecart has continued working in theatre, television and film (his last film role Lord Wigram in "The King's Speech") with lead roles in the classics of Shaw, Sheridan, and Shakespeare to light comedies, TV situation comedy, thrillers and musicals. Among his notable credits in London are Jack Absolute in "The Rivals" with Michael Hordern as his father and Geraldine McKewan as Mrs Malaprop, and Lord Goring in Peter Hall's "An Ideal Husband". He has acted on many British television shows since the mid-seventies including ''[[Lillie (TV series)|Lillie]]'', ''[[BBC Television Shakespeare|Romeo and Juliet]]'', ''[[The Professionals (TV series)|The Professionals]]'', ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]'', ''[[Rumpole of the Bailey]]'', ''[[Lovejoy]]'', ''[[Coming Home (TV serial)|Coming Home]]'' and ''[[Holby City]]''. In 1986 he appeared in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]'' in the ''[[Mindwarp]]'' segment. He was one of the lead characters in the BBC TV comedy series ''[[The High Life (TV series)|The High Life]]'' playing Captain Hilary Duff. He played Hugo Latimer in the BBC series ''[[Trainer (TV series)|Trainer]]''. He also appeared in the 1997 ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot]]'' episode, ''[[Dumb Witness]].'', and for the [[BBC]] in ''My Son My Son''. Also Dalziel & Pascoe episode and many mini series for the U.S. He played Sir Hugh Bodrugan in the 2015 BBC series of ''[[Poldark (2015 TV series)|Poldark]]''. In 2016, he played the role of the Duke of Norfolk in the [[Netflix]] series ''[[The Crown (TV series)|The Crown]]''.
His extensive theatre credits include [[The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B]] by [[J P Donleavy]] in London's West End which he also produced, first playing Balthazar to Simon Callow's playing Beefy, (who was later replaced by Billy Connolly). Numerous tours include "Donkeys Years", "Rebecca", "Tunes of Glory" and "The Millionairess" opposite Raquel Welch. He also produced, at the Garrick Theatre London (and later redirected for tour and the Edinburgh Festival 2011) "Jus' like That!" the highly successful affectionate tribute to the great Tommy Cooper, written by John Fisher.
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