Richard Ridings
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Pianist
as Mr. Lipa 2002
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
as Angelo 1988
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
as Mr. Monza 2003
The Brothers Grimm
as Bunst 2005
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
as La Hire 1999
Oliver Twist
as Warder 2005
Fierce Creatures
as Hugh Primates 1997
Amazing Grace
as Speaker of the House 2006
Creation
as Thatcher 2009
Erik the Viking
as Thorfinn Skullsplitter 1989
Clockwise
as Policeman at Crash 1986
The Fourth Protocol
as Skinhead 1987
The Scapegoat
as Landlord 2012
The Wind in the Willows
as The Guard 1996
Lassiter
as German Guard 1984
The Carer
as Landlord 2016