Allan Corduner

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Known For

Acting

Born

1950-04-02

Place of Birth

Stockholm, Sweden
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Allan Corduner

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.

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Acting History

2025
Christmas Karma as Mr Fezzywig
2025
Alfie & Ed
2024
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue as Hume Cronyn
2024
Family
2022
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus as The Deacon
2022
The Offering as Saul
2022
TÁR as Sebastian Brix
2022
Mosquito as Ozwald Godfrey
2021
Ridley Road as Rabbi Lehrer
2019
The Man Who Saw Too Much as Boris Pahor (voice)
2018
FBI as Victor Beniov
2018
Disobedience as Moshe Hartog
2017
Fearless as Monty Berman
2017
The Book of Gabrielle as Saul
2016
Florence Foster Jenkins as John Totten
2015
Woman in Gold as Gustav Bloch-Bauer
2014
Closer to the Moon as Flaviu
2014
The Musketeers as Van Laar
2014
Secrets of the Third Reich as Self - Narrator
2013
The Blacklist as Aaron
2013
Dancing on the Edge as Mr. Wax
2013
Utopia as Ross
2013
Spies of Warsaw as Viktor Rosen
2012
The Sweeney as Doctor
2012
A Thousand Kisses Deep as Buddy
2012
An Enemy to Die For as Martin Winter
2012
We'll Take Manhattan as Alex Liberman
2012
Call the Midwife as Arnold Gelin
2011
Homeland as Etai Luskin
2011
Exile as Geller
2011
Zen as Michelangelo Gattuso
2010
Lennon Naked as Art Janov
2010
Burke & Hare as Nicephore
2010
Grandma's House as Richard
2010
A Passionate Woman as Mr. Solomon
2009
Mr. Nobody as Dr. Feldheim
2008
Defiance as Shimon Haretz
2008
No Heroics
2007
Fred Claus as Dr. Goldfarb
2007
The Last Days of the Raj as Lord Ismay
2006
Simon Schama's Power of Art
2005
The Owls and the Orchard as Self - Narrator (voice)
2005
The White Countess as Samuel Feinstein
2005
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle as Greenhough Smith
2005
Friends & Crocodiles as Marcus
2005
Bigger Than the Sky as Kippy Newberg
2004
The Merchant of Venice as Tubal
2004
Vera Drake as Psychiatrist
2004
De-Lovely as Monty Woolley
2004
The Lady Musketeer as Aramis
2004
Christine as Maurice Leyman
2003
The Last Detective
2002
Daniel Deronda
2002
Foyle's War as Carlo Lucciano
2002
The King's Beard as (voice)
2002
Moonlight Mile as Stan Michaels
2002
Food of Love as Joseph Mansourian
2001
The Way We Live Now as Croll
2001
Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) as Big Bob
2001
Me Without You as Max
2001
The Search for John Gissing as Francois Fuller
2001
The Grey Zone as Nyiszli
2001
Zoe as Rupert
2000
Fat Friends as Leonard Harris
2000
Joe Gould's Secret as Francis McCrudden
1999
Topsy-Turvy as Sir Arthur Sullivan
1998
The Impostors as Captain
1997
Midsomer Murders as Michael Hipsman
1997
Nostromo as Hirsch
1996
Alive and Kicking as Therapist
1996
Norma Jean & Marilyn as Billy Wilder
1996
Gadgetman as Professor McNeil
1995
Voices as Oscar Butterworth
1995
An Independent Man
1995
The Last Machine
1994
Paris as Minotti
1994
A Business Affair as Dinner Guest
1994
Nobody's Children as Ion
1993
Heart of Darkness as Verme
1992
Carry On Columbus as Sam
1992
Mad About You as Osofsky
1992
Heartbeat as Gerard Lowe
1992
Heartbeat as Tristram Johnstone
1991
Edward II as Poet
1990
Drop the Dead Donkey as Critic
1990
Antonia and Jane as Stephen Carlinsky
1989
Fat Man and Little Boy as Franz Goethe
1988
Talk Radio as Vince / Morris
1987
Mandela as Benny
1987
Inspector Morse as Gentile Bellocchio
1986
Valhalla as Loke (voice)
1985
Bad Medicine as Dr. Diaz the Bus Driver
1985
Girls On Top as Benny
1984
The Bill
1984
Freud as Oscar Rie
1984
Cold Warrior as Joachim Maasen
1983
Yentl as Shimmele
1983
The Return of the Soldier as Pianist at Party
1981
Roots as Melvin Solomons
1980
Buccaneer as Monty Bateman
1979
Follow the Star
1979
Minder as Marty
1979
Phoelix
1979
Tales of the Unexpected as Hatchard's Bookshop Assistant
1979
Tales of the Unexpected as Store Assistant
1975
Poldark as Manservant
1971
A Ghost Story for Christmas as The Deacon
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The Entertainment System Is Down
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The Funeral as Rabbi Stephen