
Richard Dillane
Department: Acting
Biography
Richard Dillane (born 1964) is a British actor. He appears in a lead role of the Netflix series Young Wallander, based on the character Kurt Wallander created by novelist Henning Mankell. He played British intelligence agent Peter Nicholls in Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning 2012 political thriller Argo, and Merv Humphreys, husband of Margaret Humphreys (played by Emily Watson) in Jim Loach's fact-based movie Oranges and Sunshine.
Known For

The Forgotten Battle
2021

Tristan & Isolde
2006

The Jacket
2005

Doc Martin
2001

The Edge of Love
2008

Munich – The Edge of War
2021

Oranges and Sunshine
2010

Emmerdale: Revenge
1998

Dead in Tombstone
2013

The Dinosaur Project
2012

George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002

Altar
2014

One Hundredth of a Second
2006

Argo
2012

The Dark Knight
2008

Interview with a Poltergeist
2007

Wing Commander
1999

Seeing Red
2000

Anna
2013

Against the Law
2017

Mad Sad & Bad
2009

Mother's Day
2018

Spartacus
2004

United Passions
2014

Space Race
2005

The Real Sopranos
2006

The Show
2021

The Last Vermeer
2019

Solomon
1997

De-Lovely
2004

Murder at the Embassy
2025

Space Race
2005

Hustle
2004

Heartbeat
1992

The Last Post
2017

Call the Midwife
2012

Adventure Inc.
2002

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989

Doctor Who
2005

The Diplomat
2023

New Tricks
2004

Dalgliesh
2021

Father Brown
2013

Berlin Station
2016

Cold Feet
1998

Waking the Dead
2001

The Crown
2016

Endeavour
2013

Stonehouse
2023

Vera
2011

Outlander
2014

Casualty
1986

Casualty
1986

The White Princess
2017

Atlantis
2013

Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
2019

Spooks
2002

Lewis
2007

Twice Upon a Time
2019

Andor
2022

West of Liberty
2019

Giri/Haji
2019

Midsomer Murders
1997

Young Wallander
2020

Poldark
2015

Soldier Soldier
1991

Peaky Blinders
2013

Wolf Hall
2015

Inheritance
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Solomon
1997

Foyle's War
2002

The Last Kingdom
2015

The Grand
1997