Richard Ridings
Acting
Biography
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.
As actor 85
Peppa Pig
2004
Casualty
1986
Minder
1979
Merlin
2008
Highlander: The Series
1992
Matlock
1986
The Bill
1984
New Tricks
2004
Heartbeat
1992
Red Dwarf
1988
Relic Hunter
1999
Endeavour
2013
The Pianist
2002
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Pie in the Sky
1994
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
Timewatch
1982
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988
Born and Bred
2002
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985
The Physician
2013
The Brothers Grimm
2005
Murder in Mind
2001
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
The Worst Week of My Life
2004
Common As Muck
1994
Fat Friends
2000
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003
The Fourth Protocol
1987
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
Oliver Twist
2005
Home to Roost
1985
The Castle of Adventure
1990
ShakespeaRe-Told
2005
The Ritz
1987
Fierce Creatures
1997
Erik the Viking
1989
Roman Mysteries
2007
Lassiter
1984
Six Wives with Lucy Worsley
2016
Amazing Grace
2006
Mayo
2006
Fairly Secret Army
1984
Frozen
2005
Clockwise
1986
Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience
2025
The Ink Thief
1994
Creation
2009
The Wind in the Willows
1996
Gummibär & Friends: The Gummy Bear Show
2016
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000
Faintheart
2009
Comics
1993
The Carer
2016
The Princess and the Pea
2002
Nature Boy
2000
Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience
2017
Peppa's Cinema Party
2024
ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
2005
The Scapegoat
2012
Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun
2019
Dogboy
1992
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell
1999
Cruel Train
1995
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
2015
Up 'n' Under
1998
Peppa Pig: The Holiday
2013
Out of Town
1988
King of the Wind
1990
On Dangerous Ground
1996
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year
2019
Puckoon
2002
The Royal
2003
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000
Margery and Gladys
2003
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
2024
Isle of Spagg
2011
Sorry About Last Night
1995
A Pinch of Snuff
1994
The Yob
1988
Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas Visit
2020
