Richard Harrington (born 12 March 1975 in Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil) is a Welsh actor of stage and screen. He stars as DCI Richard Matthias in the acclaimed Welsh drama "Hinterland"/"Y Gwyll".

Filmography

• 2025Havoc — Jake
• The One That Got Away — DS Rick Sheldon
• Steeltown Murders — Colin Dark
• 2022Fisherman's Friends: One and All — Morgan Jenkins
• The Chelsea Detective — Rory Fisk
• 2021Dalen — Director
• Dalgliesh — Dr David Rollinson
• Fflam — Beds
• 2021The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis — Albert Lewis
• Gangs of London — Mal
• McDonald & Dodds — Lenny Wood
• 2019Bitter Sky — Roy
• 2019Creepy Pasta Salad
• 2018Gwen — Edward Morris
• 2018Last Summer — Dai Hop
• On the Edge — DI Nolan
• Requiem — Aron Morgan
• 2016Royal Wives at War — Narrator
• The Crown — Fred Phillips
• 2015Just Jim — Headmaster
• Poldark — Captain Blamey, Captain Andrew Blamey
• 2014Under Milk Wood — Neighbour
• 2013Badfinger - They Sold A Million — Narrator
• Endeavour — Dr. Dai Ferman
• Father Brown — Benedict Northam
• Hinterland — DCI Tom Mathias
• 2012Elfie Hopkins: Cannibal Hunter — Timothy Jenkins
• Stella
• Death in Paradise — Bryn Williams
• 2011Little Munchkin — Mr. Jones
• Land Girls — Adam Blackfield
• Missing
• 2008Hope Eternal — Evan
• Lark Rise to Candleford — Gabriel Cochrane
• Five Days — Daf Parry
• Holby Blue — Luke French
• M.I. High — Tommy Blumenheck
• Sold
• 2007The All Together — Jerry Davies
• 2007The Contractor — Terry Winchell
• 2007Victoria Beckham: Coming to America — Director of Photography
• Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire — Yohanon
• 2006Daddy's Girl — Stephen
• 2006Mathilde — Babyface
• Bleak House — Allan Woodcourt
• 2005Fatigue - Don't play with the fire — Hurley
• Gunpowder, Treason & Plot — Thomas Percy
• Hustle — Sam Richards
• 2003Rehab — Powell
• Spooks — Will North
• 2001Score — Neil
• 2000Care — Tony Collins
• 1997Deadly Instincts — Jack
• 1997House of America — Cat
• Midsomer Murders — Leo Fincher
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Gary Mileham
• Silent Witness — Stephen Barnes
• 1996The Proposition — Evan
• 1995Dafydd — Dafydd
• Oliver's Travels — Student
• A Mind to Kill
• 1994Leaving Lenin — Charlie
• Civvies — Taffy's Neighbour
• 1989Nineteen96 — Kit Davis
• Screen Two — Marzi

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Remembers… — Self
• 2017Richard Harrington: My Grandfather's War — Himself