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 (81)
Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience
2025
Peppa's Cinema Party
2024
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
2024
Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas Visit
2020
Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun
2019
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year
2019
Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience
2017
The Carer
2016
Six Wives with Lucy Worsley
2016
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
2015
Peppa Pig: The Holiday
2013
The Physician
2013
Endeavour
2013
The Scapegoat
2012
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
Isle of Spagg
2011
Creation
2009
Faintheart
2009
Merlin
2008
Roman Mysteries
2007
Amazing Grace
2006
Mayo
2006
The Brothers Grimm
2005
Oliver Twist
2005
Frozen
2005
ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
2005
ShakespeaRe-Told
2005
Peppa Pig
2004
New Tricks
2004
Margery and Gladys
2003
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003
The Royal
2003
The Pianist
2002
Puckoon
2002
The Princess and the Pea
2002
Born and Bred
2002
Murder in Mind
2001
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000
Fat Friends
2000
Nature Boy
2000
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell
1999
Relic Hunter
1999
Up 'n' Under
1998
Fierce Creatures
1997
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
The Wind in the Willows
1996
On Dangerous Ground
1996
Cruel Train
1995
Sorry About Last Night
1995
A Pinch of Snuff
1994
Pie in the Sky
1994
The Ink Thief
1994
Common As Muck
1994
Comics
1993
Dogboy
1992
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
Heartbeat
1992
Highlander: The Series
1992
King of the Wind
1990
The Castle of Adventure
1990
Erik the Viking
1989
The Yob
1988
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988
Out of Town
1988
Red Dwarf
1988
The Fourth Protocol
1987
Clockwise
1986
Matlock
1986
Casualty
1986
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985
Home to Roost
1985
Lassiter
1984
The Bill
1984
Fairly Secret Army
1984
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
Timewatch
1982
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
Minder
1979
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