Allan Corduner
Acting • Born 1950-04-02
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.
Filmography
110 credits
Zoe
Movie • 2001
Rupert
Me Without You
Movie • 2001
Max
Food of Love
Movie • 2002
Joseph Mansourian
TÁR
Movie • 2022
Sebastian Brix
De-Lovely
Movie • 2004
Monty Woolley
Topsy-Turvy
Movie • 1999
Sir Arthur Sullivan
The White Countess
Movie • 2005
Samuel Feinstein
Burke & Hare
Movie • 2010
Nicephore
The Grey Zone
Movie • 2001
Nyiszli
An Enemy to Die For
Movie • 2012
Martin Winter
Gadgetman
Movie • 1996
Professor McNeil
The King's Beard
Movie • 2002
(voice)
The Offering
Movie • 2022
Saul
A Business Affair
Movie • 1994
Dinner Guest
Friends & Crocodiles
Movie • 2005
Marcus
Norma Jean & Marilyn
Movie • 1996
Billy Wilder
Defiance
Movie • 2008
Shimon Haretz
Mandela
Movie • 1987
Benny
Mr. Nobody
Movie • 2009
Dr. Feldheim
Joe Gould's Secret
Movie • 2000
Francis McCrudden
Family
Movie • 2024
Talk Radio
Movie • 1988
Vince / Morris
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
Movie • 2024
Hume Cronyn
The Owls and the Orchard
Movie • 2005
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Funeral
Movie
Rabbi Stephen
Nobody's Children
Movie • 1994
Ion
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus
Movie • 2022
The Deacon
The Merchant of Venice
Movie • 2004
Tubal
Follow the Star
Movie • 1979
Woman in Gold
Movie • 2015
Gustav Bloch-Bauer
Vera Drake
Movie • 2004
Psychiatrist
The Search for John Gissing
Movie • 2001
Francois Fuller
Christmas Karma
Movie • 2025
Mr Fezzywig
Florence Foster Jenkins
Movie • 2016
John Totten
The Sweeney
Movie • 2012
Doctor
The Last Days of the Raj
Movie • 2007
Lord Ismay
We'll Take Manhattan
Movie • 2012
Alex Liberman
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Movie • 2005
Greenhough Smith
Alive and Kicking
Movie • 1996
Therapist
The Book of Gabrielle
Movie • 2017
Saul
Closer to the Moon
Movie • 2014
Flaviu
Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
Movie • 2001
Big Bob
Edward II
Movie • 1991
Poet
A Thousand Kisses Deep
Movie • 2012
Buddy
Antonia and Jane
Movie • 1990
Stephen Carlinsky
Yentl
Movie • 1983
Shimmele
Mosquito
Movie • 2022
Ozwald Godfrey
Bigger Than the Sky
Movie • 2005
Kippy Newberg
Disobedience
Movie • 2018
Moshe Hartog
Carry On Columbus
Movie • 1992
Sam
Bad Medicine
Movie • 1985
Dr. Diaz the Bus Driver
Fred Claus
Movie • 2007
Dr. Goldfarb
Fat Man and Little Boy
Movie • 1989
Franz Goethe
Heart of Darkness
Movie • 1993
Verme
The Return of the Soldier
Movie • 1983
Pianist at Party
The Man Who Saw Too Much
Movie • 2019
Boris Pahor (voice)
Voices
Movie • 1995
Oscar Butterworth
Valhalla
Movie • 1986
Loke (voice)
Moonlight Mile
Movie • 2002
Stan Michaels
Lennon Naked
Movie • 2010
Art Janov
The Impostors
Movie • 1998
Captain
Phoelix
Movie • 1979
Christine
Movie • 2004
Maurice Leyman
The Entertainment System Is Down
Movie
Alfie & Ed
Movie • 2025
Miss Dalí
Movie • 2018
Captain Moore
The Bill
TV • 1984
Girls On Top
TV • 1985
Benny
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Hatchard's Bookshop Assistant
Zen
TV • 2011
Michelangelo Gattuso
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Gerard Lowe
Inspector Morse
TV • 1987
Gentile Bellocchio
Foyle's War
TV • 2002
Carlo Lucciano
Simon Schama's Power of Art
TV • 2006
The Last Detective
TV • 2003
The Last Machine
TV • 1995
Daniel Deronda
TV • 2002
The Way We Live Now
TV • 2001
Croll
Secrets of the Third Reich
TV • 2014
Self - Narrator
Ridley Road
TV • 2021
Rabbi Lehrer
An Independent Man
TV • 1995
The Musketeers
TV • 2014
Van Laar
Utopia
TV • 2013
Ross
Drop the Dead Donkey
TV • 1990
Critic
No Heroics
TV • 2008
Minder
TV • 1979
Marty
Fearless
TV • 2017
Monty Berman
Paris
TV • 1994
Minotti
Nostromo
TV • 1997
Hirsch
The Lady Musketeer
TV • 2004
Aramis
Call the Midwife
TV • 2012
Arnold Gelin
The Blacklist
TV • 2013
Aaron
FBI
TV • 2018
Victor Beniov
Dancing on the Edge
TV • 2013
Mr. Wax
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Tristram Johnstone
Grandma's House
TV • 2010
Richard
Homeland
TV • 2011
Etai Luskin
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Michael Hipsman
A Passionate Woman
TV • 2010
Mr. Solomon
Mad About You
TV • 1992
Osofsky
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Store Assistant
Roots
TV • 1981
Melvin Solomons
Buccaneer
TV • 1980
Monty Bateman
Cold Warrior
TV • 1984
Joachim Maasen
Fat Friends
TV • 2000
Leonard Harris
Exile
TV • 2011
Geller
Spies of Warsaw
TV • 2013
Viktor Rosen
Poldark
TV • 1975
Manservant
A Ghost Story for Christmas
TV • 1971
The Deacon
Freud
TV • 1984
Oscar Rie