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

• 2026Family — Samuel
• 2025Alfie & Ed
• Bookish — Maxie Kleinmann
• 2025Christmas Karma — Mr Fezzywig
• 2024National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue — Hume Cronyn
• 2022A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus — The Deacon
• 2022Mosquito — Ozwald Godfrey
• 2022The Offering — Saul
• 2022TÁR — Sebastian Brix
• Ridley Road — Rabbi Lehrer
• 2019The Man Who Saw Too Much — Boris Pahor (voice)
• 2018Disobedience — Moshe Hartog
• FBI — Victor Beniov
• 2018Miss Dalí — Captain Moore
• Fearless — Monty Berman
• 2017The Book of Gabrielle — Saul
• 2016Florence Foster Jenkins — John Totten
• 2015Woman in Gold — Gustav Bloch-Bauer
• 2014Closer to the Moon — Flaviu
• The Musketeers — Van Laar
• Dancing on the Edge — Mr. Wax
• Spies of Warsaw — Viktor Rosen
• The Blacklist — Aaron
• Utopia — Ross
• 2012A Thousand Kisses Deep — Buddy
• 2012An Enemy to Die For — Martin Winter
• Call the Midwife — Arnold Gelin
• 2012The Sweeney — Doctor
• 2012We'll Take Manhattan — Alex Liberman
• Exile — Geller
• Homeland — Etai Luskin
• Zen — Michelangelo Gattuso
• A Passionate Woman — Mr. Solomon
• 2010Burke & Hare — Nicephore
• Grandma's House — Richard
• 2010Lennon Naked — Art Janov
• 2009Mr. Nobody — Dr. Feldheim
• 2008Defiance — Shimon Haretz
• No Heroics
• 2007Fred Claus — Dr. Goldfarb
• 2007The Last Days of the Raj — Lord Ismay
• 2006Against Nature — Des Esseintes
• Simon Schama's Power of Art
• 2005Bigger Than the Sky — Kippy Newberg
• 2005Friends & Crocodiles — Marcus
• 2005The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle — Greenhough Smith
• 2005The White Countess — Samuel Feinstein
• 2004Christine — Maurice Leyman
• 2004De-Lovely — Monty Woolley
• The Lady Musketeer — Aramis
• 2004The Merchant of Venice — Tubal
• 2004Vera Drake — Psychiatrist
• The Last Detective
• Trust — Michael Cohen
• Daniel Deronda — Herr Julius Klesmer
• 2002Food of Love — Joseph Mansourian
• Foyle's War — Carlo Lucciano
• 2002Moonlight Mile — Stan Michaels
• 2002The King's Beard — Ronnie (voice)
• 2001Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) — Big Bob
• 2001Me Without You — Max
• 2001The Grey Zone — Nyiszli
• 2001The Search for John Gissing — Francois Fuller
• The Way We Live Now — Croll
• 2001Zoe — Rupert
• Fat Friends — Leonard Harris
• 2000Joe Gould's Secret — Francis McCrudden
• 1999Topsy-Turvy — Sir Arthur Sullivan
• 1998The Impostors — Captain
• Midsomer Murders — Michael Hipsman
• Nostromo — Hirsch
• 1996Alive and Kicking — Therapist
• 1996Gadgetman — Professor McNeil
• 1996Norma Jean & Marilyn — Billy Wilder
• An Independent Man
• The Last Machine
• 1995Voices — Oscar Butterworth
• 1994A Business Affair — Dinner Guest
• 1994Heart of Darkness — Verme
• 1994Nobody's Children — Ion
• Paris — Minotti
• 1992Carry On Columbus — Sam
• Heartbeat — Gerard Lowe, Tristram Johnstone
• Mad About You — Osofsky
• 1991Edward II — Poet
• Teenage Health Freak — Dr Lime
• 1990Antonia and Jane — Stephen Carlinsky
• Drop the Dead Donkey — Critic
• 1989Fat Man and Little Boy — Franz Goethe
• 1988Talk Radio — Vince / Morris
• Inspector Morse — Gentile Bellocchio
• 1987Mandela — Benny
• 1986Valhalla — Loke (voice)
• 1985Bad Medicine — Dr. Diaz the Bus Driver
• Girls On Top — Benny
• Cold Warrior — Joachim Maasen
• Freud — Oscar Rie
• The Bill
• 1983The Return of the Soldier — Pianist at Party
• 1983Yentl — Shimmele
• Roots — Melvin Solomons
• Buccaneer — Monty Bateman
• 1979Follow the Star
• Minder — Marty
• 1979Phoelix
• Tales of the Unexpected — Hatchard's Bookshop Assistant, Store Assistant
• Poldark — Manservant
• A Ghost Story for Christmas — The Deacon
• The Entertainment System Is Down
• The Funeral — Rabbi Stephen
• The Wedding Dress — Rabbi Munck

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Secrets of the Third Reich — Self - Narrator
• 2005The Owls and the Orchard — Self - Narrator (voice)