Richard Ommanney is an English writer who has written extensively for TV. He initially trained as an actor at the Central School Of School of Speech and Drama. On TV he appeared in Get Some In, Red Letter Day, The Dragon's Opponent, and Jane Eyre in which he played Stephanie Beacham's brother Lord Ingram. In 1973/74 he spent a year in the West End at the Savoy Theatre in A Ghost on Tiptoe which starred Robert Morley. In 1976 he spent three months in Holland filming A Bridge Too Far directed by Richard Attenborough. He wrote eight episodes of police drama The Bill.