Douglas Reynholm

Douglas Reynholm is the main antagonist in the E4 series The IT Crowd. He was the owner of Reynholm Industries and his father's successor to the latter company.

He was portrayed by English actor Matt Berry.

Personality
Douglas was rather laid back and lazy when it came to running the company with his employees being the threads holding his company together despite this he still attended all of the meetings and made deals with various people allying himself with numerous other businesses. He would regularly be around the IT department where he would hit on Jen and be perverted towards her while occasionally speaking to Moss and Roy, this appears to be the department he is closest to and the only one he is friends with people in (although this is most likely because the IT department are the central characters in the show). He was also relatively narcissistic and wouldn't care at all about the consequences of his actions. He was also gullible since Jen was able to easily trick him that she could speak Italian. He was very childlike with his actions and would rarely think anything through or how what he do would affect others. He was a heterosexual as well as a homophobic man this is shown after he ends his relationship with April Shepherd upon realising she was a transsexual with a violent confrontation in the Reynholm Industries labs, losing her did deeply affect Douglas though since he actually did end up loving her in the end.

Appearance
Douglas was a tall, well dressed man with long, thick dark hair, a short beard and is of broad build. Due to an arm infection after a failed tattoo attempt Douglas' right hand had to be amputated, he replaced this hand with an animatronic one which looked identical to his previous hand.

Trivia

 * He is very similar to Zapp Brannigan from Futurama
 * He is shown to be a surprisingly good fighter during his fight against April Shepherd.
 * Despite him being a laid back and rather lazy boss the company did not suffer at all with his employment as the boss, this is probably due to his employees or possibly from the amount of partnerships he had made.