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Richard Ridings

Acting Born Sep 19, 1958 Henley-on-Thames, England, UK 24 credits

Biography

Richard John Ridings (born September 19, 1958) is an English actor. He portrayed Alan Ashburn in the ITV television drama Fat Friends, Bernard Green in the BBC One comedy-drama Common as Muck, Mr. Bumble in the BBC series Dickensian, and is the voice of Daddy Pig in Peppa Pig. He trained as an actor at Bretton Hall College, then the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He is the father of singer-songwriter Freya Ridings.

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Full filmography

  • Peppa Pig (2004) as Daddy Pig (voice)
  • Casualty (1986) as Kevin
  • Casualty (1986) as Jack
  • New Tricks (2004)
  • Heartbeat (1992) as Thorpe
  • Minder (1979) as Warren
  • Highlander: The Series (1992) as Silas
  • Matlock (1986) as Nicky
  • Merlin (2008) as Halig
  • Endeavour (2013) as DI Chesney Finch
  • Red Dwarf (1988) as DNA Ship Computer (voice)
  • Red Dwarf (1988) as Crazed Astro
  • The Bill (1984)
  • Relic Hunter (1999) as Johnny the Jackhammer
  • The Pianist (2002) as Mr. Lipa
  • The Comic Strip Presents... (1982) as Yob 1
  • Pie in the Sky (1994) as Gary Bourne
  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) as Buck
  • Dempsey and Makepeace (1985) as Tulley's Sidekick
  • The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992) as Andre
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) as Angelo
  • Murder in Mind (2001) as DCI Quarry
  • Timewatch (1982) as Elder Sextus
  • Born and Bred (2002) as Horace Trubshaw