Richard Ridings
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.
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2025
Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience as Daddy Pig (voice)
2024Peppa Pig: Wedding Party! as Daddy Pig (voice)
2024Peppa's Cinema Party as Daddy Pig (voice)
2020Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas Visit as Daddy Pig (voice)
2019Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun as Daddy Pig (voice)
2019Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year as Daddy Pig
2017Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience as Daddy Pig (voice)
2016Six Wives with Lucy Worsley as Henry VIII
2016The Carer as Landlord
2016The Carer as Pub Landlord
2015Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots as Daddy Pig (voice)
2013Endeavour as DI Chesney Finch
2013Peppa Pig: The Holiday as Daddy Pig (voice)
2012The Scapegoat as Landlord
2011Isle of Spagg as Bob / Mel (voice)
2011Rise of the Planet of the Apes as Buck
2009Creation as Thatcher
2009Faintheart as Collin
2008Merlin as Halig
2007Roman Mysteries as Venalicius
2006Amazing Grace as Speaker of the House
2006Mayo as Mark Castello
2005Macbeth as Maurice
2005ShakespeaRe-Told
2005Oliver Twist as Warder
2005The Brothers Grimm as Bunst
2005Frozen as Lorry Driver
2004Peppa Pig as Daddy Pig (voice)
2004New Tricks
2003Margery and Gladys as Terry Mason
2003Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life as Mr. Monza
2003The Royal as Malcolm Hogg
2002The Pianist as Mr. Lipa
2002The Princess and the Pea as King Windham/Button (voice)
2002Born and Bred as Horace Trubshaw
2002Puckoon as Alex Walker
2001Murder in Mind as DCI Quarry
2000Fat Friends as Alan Ashburn
2000This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper as Det. Supt. Dick Holland
2000This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper as Det. Supt. Dick Holland
1999The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc as La Hire
1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell as André
1999Relic Hunter as Johnny the Jackhammer
1998Up 'n' Under as Frank
1997The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling as Reverend Thwackum
1997Fierce Creatures as Hugh Primates
1996The Wind in the Willows as The Guard
1996On Dangerous Ground as Thomas Borga
1996Dalziel & Pascoe
1995Sorry About Last Night as Greg
1995Cruel Train as Percy Cotton
1994Common As Muck as Bernard Green
1994The Ink Thief as Aloysius
1994A Pinch of Snuff as Brian Burkhill
1994Pie in the Sky as Gary Bourne
1992Highlander: The Series as Silas
1992Dogboy as Diner Cook #1
1992Heartbeat as Thorpe
1992The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Andre
1990King of the Wind as Jailer
1989Erik the Viking as Thorfinn Skullsplitter
1988Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Angelo
1988The Yob as Yob 1
1988Red Dwarf as DNA Ship Computer (voice)
1988Red Dwarf as Crazed Astro
1988Out of Town as Labourer
1987The Fourth Protocol as Skinhead
1986Casualty as Kevin
1986Casualty as Jack
1986Matlock as Nicky
1986Clockwise as Policeman at Crash
1985Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire as Egyptian
1985Home to Roost as Millwall
1985Dempsey and Makepeace as Tulley's Sidekick
1984Fairly Secret Army as Ron Boat
1984The Bill
1984Lassiter as German Guard
1983Reilly: Ace of Spies as Vanderberg
1982The Comic Strip Presents... as Yob 1
1982Timewatch as Elder Sextus
1979Minder as Warren