Richard Findlater (1921–1985) was a British theatre critic and biographer.
He was born Kenneth Bruce Findlater Bain, but worked under the pen-name Richard Findlater.
[2][3] He wrote 18 books, including biographies of Michael Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Lillian Baylis and Joseph Grimaldi; a history of stage censorship, Banned; and an account of contemporary British theatre, The Unholy Trade.
[2] From 1948 to 1962, he was married to the journalist and showbusiness interviewer Romany Bain, with whom he had four children.
One of their sons became an Anglican priest-clown known as Roly Bain or "Holy Roly".