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Richard E. Grant Actor

HORSE'S BACK END GIVES SPEECH ON CANAL

Is he playing the back half of a pantomime horse? Emphatically.

Existence confidence provisional
A generated photo of an anonymous stranger. It is not the person named.
Richard E. Grant collects a curry from a takeaway counter at a park-and-ride stop in Oxford, examining the receipt with theatrical suspicion, turning it over as if deciphering stage directions.
Location
Inside a pantomime horse, moored beside a canal towpath bench in Amsterdam, rear end
Currently
Back half of a pantomime horse, demanding the nearest bar
Last confirmed sighting
Behind a tall horse head outside a bicycle repair stall, Amsterdam
Observations
Can project a monologue through a velvet flank at nine hundred paces.

Richard E. Grant has accepted a position as the back half of a pantomime horse, working a canal towpath in Amsterdam. He insists on playing the role with full theatrical grandeur. The front half, a quiet man named Dennis, has stopped trying to steer.

The horse tours towpaths from Thursday, with a matinee at a bridge near a bicycle shed and an evening show beside a houseboat. A fortnight of dates follows, each opening with the cry 'I demand to be taken to the nearest bar'. The tail is booked for a long run.

Monday, 9.10am: the horse is fitted, and the back half objects to the colour of the hooves. Tuesday, 2pm: he announces the horse has gone on holiday by mistake. Thursday, 6.45pm: the whole animal bows to a passing barge. Saturday, 11am: the scarf is approved for the tail.

Guidance for the public

Do not offer the horse a carrot; the back half will take a gin.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 22 October 2026. Born 5 May 1957. Source: Wikidata

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