Richard Ridings
Acting · Sound
Born September 19, 1958, Henley-on-Thames, England, UK
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
- 2026Festive Fun with Peppa
- 2025Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience — Daddy Pig (voice)
- 2024Peppa Pig: Wedding Party! — Daddy Pig (voice)
- 2024Peppa's Cinema Party — Daddy Pig (voice)
- 2020Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas Visit — Daddy Pig (voice)
- 2019Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year — Daddy Pig
- 2019Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun — Daddy Pig (voice)
- 2017Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience — Daddy Pig (voice)
- Gummibär & Friends: The Gummy Bear Show — Grumpy McCrab
- Six Wives with Lucy Worsley — Henry VIII
- 2016The Carer — Landlord, Pub Landlord
- 2015Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots — Daddy Pig (voice)
- Endeavour — DI Chesney Finch
- 2013Peppa Pig: A Christmas Compilation — Vocals
- 2013Peppa Pig: The Holiday — Daddy Pig (voice)
- 2013The Physician — Tough Guy
- 2012The Scapegoat — Landlord
- 2011Isle of Spagg — Bob / Mel (voice)
- 2011Rise of the Planet of the Apes — Buck
- 2009Creation — Thatcher
- 2009Faintheart — Collin
- Merlin — Halig
- 2007Amazing Grace — Speaker of the House
- Roman Mysteries — Venalicius
- Mayo — Mark Castello
- 2005Frozen — Lorry Driver
- 2005Oliver Twist — Warder
- ShakespeaRe-Told
- 2005ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth — Maurice
- 2005The Brothers Grimm — Bunst
- New Tricks
- Peppa Pig — Daddy Pig (voice)
- The Worst Week of My Life — PC Tait
- 2003Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life — Mr. Monza
- 2003Margery and Gladys — Terry Mason
- The Royal — Malcolm Hogg
- Born and Bred — Horace Trubshaw
- 2002Puckoon — Alex Walker
- 2002The Pianist — Mr. Lipa
- 2002The Princess and the Pea — King Windham/Button (voice)
- Murder in Mind — DCI Quarry
- Fat Friends — Alan Ashburn
- Nature Boy — Ted
- 2000This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper — Det. Supt. Dick Holland
- This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper — Det. Supt. Dick Holland
- Relic Hunter — Johnny the Jackhammer
- 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell — André
- 1999The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc — La Hire
- 1998Up 'n' Under — Frank
- 1997Fierce Creatures — Hugh
- The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling — Reverend Thwackum
- Dalziel and Pascoe — Trevor Nesbitt
- 1996On Dangerous Ground — Thomas Borga
- 1996The Wind in the Willows — The Guard
- 1995Cruel Train — Percy Cotton
- 1995Sorry About Last Night — Greg
- 1994A Pinch of Snuff — Brian Burkhill
- Common As Muck — Bernard Green
- Pie in the Sky — Gary Bourne
- The Ink Thief — Aloysius
- Comics — Tommy Karr
- 1992Dogboy — Diner Cook #1
- Heartbeat — Thorpe
- Highlander: The Series — Silas
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles — Andre
- 1990King of the Wind — Jailer
- The Castle of Adventure — Nico
- 1989Erik the Viking — Thorfinn Skullsplitter
- 1988Out of Town — Labourer
- Red Dwarf — DNA Ship Computer (voice), Crazed Astro
- 1988The Yob — Yob 1
- 1988Who Framed Roger Rabbit — Angelo
- 1987The Fourth Protocol — Skinhead
- The Ritz — Mad Mick
- Casualty — Kevin, Jack
- 1986Clockwise — Policeman at Crash
- Matlock — Nicky
- 1985Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire — Egyptian
- Dempsey and Makepeace — Tulley's Sidekick
- Home to Roost — Millwall
- Fairly Secret Army — Ron Boat
- 1984Lassiter — German Guard
- The Bill
- Reilly: Ace of Spies — Vanderberg
- The Comic Strip Presents... — Yob 1
- Timewatch — Elder Sextus
- Minder — Warren