Richard M. Dumont (born 1959 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian voice actor, writer and director who has worked in both Canada and the United States. Dumont is known for playing Sardo, who owned a magic shop called Sardo's Magic Mansion, in many episodes of the Canadian-American horror fantasy anthology television series for Nickelodeon, Are You Afraid of the Dark? Dumont studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, later studying theatre-acting at Ryerson University before joining The Second City.