Biography
Richard Gant is an American actor born on 10 March 1944 in San Francisco, California. He is known for his role as the boxing promoter George Washington Duke in the film Rocky V (1990).
Gant has appeared in numerous films and television series, including The Big Lebowski (1998), Godzilla (1998), Bean (1997), Deadwood (2004–2006) as Hostetler, Friends (1994), How I Met Your Mother (2005), Smallville (2001), Charmed (1998), Bones (2005), Norbit (2007) and Men of a Certain Age (2009–2012) as Owen. He trained at California State University, East Bay and Samuel Merritt University, served in the US Air Force, and worked in off-Broadway theatre before his screen career began in 1980.
