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