Richard Leslie Vranch (born 29 June 1959) is an English actor, improviser, comedian, writer and musician.

[4][5] While a first-year doctoral student, he joined the Footlights in 1981 and was a contemporary of Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Morwenna Banks, Tony Slattery and Neil Mullarkey.

In 2012, with others he co-wrote and appeared in the UK tour and West End run of the stage show Paul Merton Out of My Head.

Vranch has voiced TV and radio commercials for companies including British Airways, Lidl and Saab.

in 1995 and appeared on BBC Radio 4's long-running panel game Just a Minute in 1999[22] and in 2005 was a contestant on a charity special of The Weakest Link.

He discussed the switch-on of the Large Hadron Collider in September 2008 with Jeremy Vine and Simon Singh on BBC Radio 2.