Richard Durden

Acting

Born February 8, 1944, Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK

Mark Richard Durden-Smith (born 8 February 1944), known as Richard Durden, is an English actor, with a range of television, film and stage credits.

Filmography

• 2025The Secret Santa Project — Barney
• 2024JOY — Sir Norman Jeffcoate
• The Change — Doctor
• The Gold — Henry
• 2022Late Shift — Samuel Parr
• Sister Boniface Mysteries — Arthur Salem
• Bridgerton — Lord Greer
• Back to Life — Oscar Matteson
• 2019Brexit: The Uncivil War — Bill Cash
• Ghosts — Charles, Charles Worthing, Solicitor
• 2019Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — First Order Officer
• 2018Man of the Hour — Jeremy's Father
• 2018The Child in Time — Stephen's Father
• 2017Churchill — Jan Smuts
• Harlots — Lord Dodds
• Agatha Raisin — Mr. Boggle
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Lord Liverpool, Lord Liverpool (uncredited)
• Poldark — Dr Anselm
• 2015Satan Has a Bushy Tail — Derek
• Wolf Hall — Bishop Fisher
• 2014The Ties That Bind — Reverend Cooper
• 2012Papadopoulos & Sons — Father Jimmy
• World Without End — Sir Henry
• 2011Anonymous — Archbishop
• Hidden — Dr. Sturgess
• Silk — Lord Winter
• 2011The Awakening — Alexander Cathcart
• The Borgias — The Physician
• 2010From Paris with Love — Ambassador Bennington
• 2010The Heavy — Carl
• 2009Agora — Olympius
• 2009The Last Days of Lehman Brothers — Harvey Miller
• 2007Confessions of a Diary Secretary — Office Manager
• Lewis — John Gracey
• 2007Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud — Old Man Hatfield
• Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial — Lord Justice Lawrence
• The Amazing Mrs Pritchard — Sir Athelstane Jervis
• Fingersmith — Mr. Hawtrey
• 2005Oliver Twist — Board Member
• 2005The Best Man — Vicar
• 2005The Jacket — Dr. Hale
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Mr. Prestcott
• Hex — Dr Wilkinson
• 2004Not Only But Always — Proctor
• 2004The Reckoning — Town Justice
• 2003Hear the Silence — Dr. Austen Parker
• 2002Amen. — Ambassador Taylor
• 2002Bobbie's Girl — Headmaster Ashbourne
• Daniel Deronda — Gentleman
• Foyle's War — Letwin
• Spooks — Irvin Perrot
• 2001Superstition — Minister of Justice
• 1999Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei — Barão de Rosthschild
• Highlander: The Raven — Anton Novak
• 1998The First 9½ Weeks — Laurence Garner
• The Worst Witch — Grand Wizard Egbert Hellibore
• 1997Danielle Steel's Zoya — Konstantin
• Midsomer Murders — Duncan Goff
• Trial & Retribution — Dr John Foster
• 1996Beaumarchais the Scoundrel — Smith
• Madson — Armstrong
• Silent Witness — Conor Hodgson
• Bugs — Dent
• 1995The Grotesque — Sykes-Herring
• Peak Practice — George Morgan
• 1993The Innocent — Black
• To Play the King — BBC Official
• 2Point4 Children — John Crudaal
• 1991A Woman at War — Jaques
• 1991Sleepers — Rev. David Bancroft
• Sleepers — Reverend David Bancroft
• The House of Eliott — Archibald Lovat
• 1990The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story — BKA Interrogator
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Dr. Pritchard, Pebmarsh
• 1989Batman — TV Director
• 1988Maigret — Julian Braden
• Noble House — Havergill
• 1988The Man Who Lived at the Ritz — Man Ray
• 1987Hedgehog Wedding — Daniel
• Lovejoy — Commissaire Dupont
• Screen Two — Daniel
• 1984Amy — Captain Bill Hope
• 1981Country — Guy Wheldon
• 1981The Day of the Janitor — Roger
• Minder — Dr. Jarvis
• Shoestring — Steve
• 1978The Comedy of Errors — Ephesus Townsperson
• 1973The Love-Girl and the Innocent — Khomich
• Justice — Anthony Sherman
• 1970Scars of Dracula — Second Officer
• 1967Doctor Faustus — Evil Angel/Knight
• ITV Playhouse — Roger
• BBC Play of the Month — Khomich
• Cheaper 2 Keep Her — Police officer #1