Reuben Dewy The sociable leader of the Mellstock choir and Dick's father. A man of insight and humor who is troubled by his son's infatuation with Fancy Day. But he's more upset by the arrival of a harmonium... ... Through the open doorway of a small inner room on the right hand, of a character between pantry and cellar, was Dick Dewy's father Reuben, by vocation a "tranter," or irregular carrier. He was a stout florid man about forty years of age, who surveyed people up and down when first making their acquaintance, and generally smiled at the horizon or other distant object during conversations with friends, walking about with a steady sway, and turning out his toes very considerably... Tony Haygarth played the frustrated Mr. Gridley in Masterpiece Theatre's Bleak House. His acting career stretches back to the 1970s. One of his earliest roles was as a slave in I, Claudius. He has also been seen in Parnell and the Englishwoman, Sharpe's Enemy and Bramwell. Haygarth was the voice of the evil Mr. Tweedy in 2000's Chicken Run. Nominated for an Olivier Award for his work in Twelve Angry Men and The Tempest, Haygarth also won the Clarence Derwent Award for Simpatico.