Personal Info
Birthday
September 19, 1958
Place of Birth
Henley-on-Thames, England, UK
Known For
Acting
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.
Acting Filmography (81)
10.0
Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience
Movie2025
10.0
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
Movie2024
4.0
Peppa's Cinema Party
Movie2024
No Backdrop
0.0
Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas Visit
Movie2020
7.6
Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun
Movie2019
4.0
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year
Movie2019
7.9
Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience
Movie2017
6.8
Six Wives with Lucy Worsley
TV Series2016
6.6
The Carer
Movie2016
10.0
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
Movie2015
7.3
The Physician
Movie2013
8.1
Endeavour
TV Series2013
1.0
Peppa Pig: The Holiday
Movie2013
6.4
The Scapegoat
Movie2012
No Backdrop
0.0
Isle of Spagg
Movie2011
7.3
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Movie2011
6.4
Creation
Movie2009
6.3
Faintheart
Movie2009
7.8
Merlin
TV Series2008
No Backdrop
5.0
Roman Mysteries
TV Series2007
6.9
Amazing Grace
Movie2006
4.2
Mayo
TV Series2006
7.7
ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
Movie2005
7.4
ShakespeaRe-Told
TV Series2005
6.8
Oliver Twist
Movie2005
5.9
The Brothers Grimm
Movie2005
5.9
Frozen
Movie2005
6.5
Peppa Pig
TV Series2004
8.2
The Worst Week of My Life
TV Series2004
7.3
New Tricks
TV Series2004
7.7
Margery and Gladys
Movie2003
5.8
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Movie2003
7.8
The Royal
TV Series2003
8.4
The Pianist
Movie2002
7.3
The Princess and the Pea
Movie2002
9.0
Born and Bred
TV Series2002
No Backdrop
6.3
Puckoon
Movie2002
8.3
Murder in Mind
TV Series2001
7.9
Fat Friends
TV Series2000
7.3
Nature Boy
TV Series2000
No Backdrop
7.0
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Movie2000
7.4
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
TV Series2000
6.4
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Movie1999
5.8
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell
Movie1999
6.8
Relic Hunter
TV Series1999
No Backdrop
5.2
Up 'n' Under
Movie1998
7.5
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
TV Series1997
6.2
Fierce Creatures
Movie1997
5.8
The Wind in the Willows
Movie1996
5.1
On Dangerous Ground
Movie1996
No Backdrop
8.0
Sorry About Last Night
Movie1995
4.3
Cruel Train
Movie1995
7.0
Common As Muck
TV Series1994
10.0
The Ink Thief
TV Series1994
No Backdrop
0.0
A Pinch of Snuff
Movie1994
8.3
Pie in the Sky
TV Series1994
No Backdrop
3.3
Comics
TV Series1993
7.4
Highlander: The Series
TV Series1992
No Backdrop
5.0
Dogboy
Movie1992
7.2
Heartbeat
TV Series1992
6.5
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
TV Series1992
7.0
King of the Wind
Movie1990
No Backdrop
0.0
The Castle of Adventure
TV Series1990
5.9
Erik the Viking
Movie1989
7.5
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Movie1988
No Backdrop
0.0
The Yob
Movie1988
8.1
Red Dwarf
TV Series1988
8.0
Out of Town
Movie1988
6.3
The Fourth Protocol
Movie1987
6.2
Casualty
TV Series1986
7.1
Matlock
TV Series1986
6.2
Clockwise
Movie1986
6.1
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Movie1985
6.5
Home to Roost
TV Series1985
6.6
Dempsey and Makepeace
TV Series1985
6.8
The Bill
TV Series1984
5.4
Lassiter
Movie1984
7.0
Reilly: Ace of Spies
TV Series1983
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV Series1982
6.9
Timewatch
TV Series1982
7.2
Minder
TV Series1979