
Allan Corduner
Department: Acting
Biography
Allan Corduner (born April 2, 1950) is an English actor born in Stockholm to a German mother and a Russo-Finnish father. He grew up in a secular Jewish home in London. After earning a BA (Hons) in English and Drama at Bristol University he trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has worked extensively on stage, TV, and film, both in the UK and in the United States. His voice is familiar from many BBC radio plays, audio books and TV documentaries. Corduner made his feature film debut in Yentl, with Barbra Streisand. Of his 44 films he is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Sir Arthur Sullivan in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy. He is married to Juha Leppäjärvi, a yoga instructor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allan Corduner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Zoe
2001

Me Without You
2001

Food of Love
2002

TÁR
2022

De-Lovely
2004

Topsy-Turvy
1999

The White Countess
2005

Burke & Hare
2010

The Grey Zone
2001

An Enemy to Die For
2012

Gadgetman
1996

The King's Beard
2002

The Offering
2022

A Business Affair
1994

Friends & Crocodiles
2005

Norma Jean & Marilyn
1996

Defiance
2008

Mandela
1987

Mr. Nobody
2009

Joe Gould's Secret
2000

Family
2024

Talk Radio
1988

National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
2024

The Owls and the Orchard
2005

The Funeral
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Nobody's Children
1994

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus
2022

The Merchant of Venice
2004

Follow the Star
1979

Woman in Gold
2015

Vera Drake
2004

The Search for John Gissing
2001

Christmas Karma
2025

Florence Foster Jenkins
2016

The Sweeney
2012

The Last Days of the Raj
2007

We'll Take Manhattan
2012

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005

Alive and Kicking
1996

The Book of Gabrielle
2017

Closer to the Moon
2014

Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
2001

Edward II
1991

A Thousand Kisses Deep
2012

Antonia and Jane
1990

Yentl
1983

Mosquito
2022

Bigger Than the Sky
2005

Disobedience
2018

Carry On Columbus
1992

Bad Medicine
1985

Fred Claus
2007

Fat Man and Little Boy
1989

Heart of Darkness
1993

The Return of the Soldier
1983

The Man Who Saw Too Much
2019

Voices
1995

Valhalla
1986

Moonlight Mile
2002

Lennon Naked
2010

The Impostors
1998

Phoelix
1979

Christine
2004

The Entertainment System Is Down
—

Alfie & Ed
2025

Miss Dalí
2018

The Bill
1984

Girls On Top
1985

Tales of the Unexpected
1979

Zen
2011

Heartbeat
1992

Inspector Morse
1987

Foyle's War
2002

Simon Schama's Power of Art
2006

The Last Detective
2003

The Last Machine
1995

Daniel Deronda
2002

The Way We Live Now
2001

Secrets of the Third Reich
2014

Ridley Road
2021

An Independent Man
1995

The Musketeers
2014

Utopia
2013

Drop the Dead Donkey
1990

No Heroics
2008

Minder
1979

Fearless
2017

Paris
1994

Nostromo
1997

The Lady Musketeer
2004

Call the Midwife
2012

The Blacklist
2013

FBI
2018

Dancing on the Edge
2013

Heartbeat
1992

Grandma's House
2010

Homeland
2011

Midsomer Murders
1997

A Passionate Woman
2010

Mad About You
1992

Tales of the Unexpected
1979

Roots
1981

Buccaneer
1980

Cold Warrior
1984

Fat Friends
2000

Exile
2011

Spies of Warsaw
2013

Poldark
1975

A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971

Freud
1984