Richard Ridings
Acting • Born 1958-09-19
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.
Filmography
85 credits
The Pianist
Movie • 2002
Mr. Lipa
The Brothers Grimm
Movie • 2005
Bunst
Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience
Movie • 2017
Daddy Pig (voice)
Lassiter
Movie • 1984
German Guard
Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas Visit
Movie • 2020
Daddy Pig (voice)
Creation
Movie • 2009
Thatcher
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Movie • 1999
La Hire
The Yob
Movie • 1988
Yob 1
Dogboy
Movie • 1992
Diner Cook #1
Up 'n' Under
Movie • 1998
Frank
Erik the Viking
Movie • 1989
Thorfinn Skullsplitter
Peppa's Cinema Party
Movie • 2024
Daddy Pig (voice)
Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun
Movie • 2019
Daddy Pig (voice)
Cruel Train
Movie • 1995
Percy Cotton
Fierce Creatures
Movie • 1997
Hugh Primates
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
Movie • 2015
Daddy Pig (voice)
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Movie • 2000
Det. Supt. Dick Holland
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Movie • 1985
Egyptian
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell
Movie • 1999
André
Sorry About Last Night
Movie • 1995
Greg
The Carer
Movie • 2016
Landlord
Faintheart
Movie • 2009
Collin
The Wind in the Willows
Movie • 1996
The Guard
The Scapegoat
Movie • 2012
Landlord
Margery and Gladys
Movie • 2003
Terry Mason
Oliver Twist
Movie • 2005
Warder
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Movie • 2011
Buck
Amazing Grace
Movie • 2006
Speaker of the House
Puckoon
Movie • 2002
Alex Walker
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Movie • 2003
Mr. Monza
A Pinch of Snuff
Movie • 1994
Brian Burkhill
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year
Movie • 2019
Daddy Pig
Frozen
Movie • 2005
Lorry Driver
ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
Movie • 2005
Maurice
The Fourth Protocol
Movie • 1987
Skinhead
Isle of Spagg
Movie • 2011
Bob / Mel (voice)
The Carer
Movie • 2016
Pub Landlord
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Movie • 1988
Angelo
Peppa Pig: The Holiday
Movie • 2013
Daddy Pig (voice)
King of the Wind
Movie • 1990
Jailer
Out of Town
Movie • 1988
Labourer
On Dangerous Ground
Movie • 1996
Thomas Borga
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
Movie • 2024
Daddy Pig (voice)
Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience
Movie • 2025
Daddy Pig (voice)
Clockwise
Movie • 1986
Policeman at Crash
The Princess and the Pea
Movie • 2002
King Windham/Button (voice)
ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
Movie
Maurice
The Bill
TV • 1984
Matlock
TV • 1986
Nicky
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
TV • 1992
Andre
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
TV • 1997
Reverend Thwackum
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Thorpe
Dalziel & Pascoe
TV • 1996
Red Dwarf
TV • 1988
DNA Ship Computer (voice)
Peppa Pig
TV • 2004
Daddy Pig (voice)
New Tricks
TV • 2004
Mayo
TV • 2006
Mark Castello
Timewatch
TV • 1982
Elder Sextus
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
TV • 2000
Det. Supt. Dick Holland
Fairly Secret Army
TV • 1984
Ron Boat
Merlin
TV • 2008
Halig
Relic Hunter
TV • 1999
Johnny the Jackhammer
Roman Mysteries
TV • 2007
Venalicius
ShakespeaRe-Told
TV • 2005
The Royal
TV • 2003
Malcolm Hogg
Casualty
TV • 1986
Kevin
Casualty
TV • 1986
Jack
Minder
TV • 1979
Warren
Pie in the Sky
TV • 1994
Gary Bourne
Red Dwarf
TV • 1988
Crazed Astro
Six Wives with Lucy Worsley
TV • 2016
Henry VIII
The Ink Thief
TV • 1994
Aloysius
Highlander: The Series
TV • 1992
Silas
Endeavour
TV • 2013
DI Chesney Finch
Common As Muck
TV • 1994
Bernard Green
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Yob 1
Dempsey and Makepeace
TV • 1985
Tulley's Sidekick
Home to Roost
TV • 1985
Millwall
Reilly: Ace of Spies
TV • 1983
Vanderberg
Murder in Mind
TV • 2001
DCI Quarry
Born and Bred
TV • 2002
Horace Trubshaw
Fat Friends
TV • 2000
Alan Ashburn
Comics
TV • 1993
Tommy Karr
Nature Boy
TV • 2000
Ted
The Castle of Adventure
TV • 1990
Nico