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 82
Peppa Pig
2004
Casualty
1986
Heartbeat
1992
Matlock
1986
Minder
1979
Merlin
2008
Highlander: The Series
1992
Endeavour
2013
New Tricks
2004
Relic Hunter
1999
Red Dwarf
1988
The Pianist
2002
The Bill
1984
Timewatch
1982
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
Pie in the Sky
1994
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
Murder in Mind
2001
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003
The Brothers Grimm
2005
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
Born and Bred
2002
The Physician
2013
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
Fat Friends
2000
The Worst Week of My Life
2004
Oliver Twist
2005
ShakespeaRe-Told
2005
Home to Roost
1985
Roman Mysteries
2007
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
Mayo
2006
Common As Muck
1994
Erik the Viking
1989
Amazing Grace
2006
Creation
2009
Six Wives with Lucy Worsley
2016
Nature Boy
2000
The Fourth Protocol
1987
Comics
1993
Lassiter
1984
Fierce Creatures
1997
Fairly Secret Army
1984
The Wind in the Willows
1996
The Castle of Adventure
1990
Faintheart
2009
The Ink Thief
1994
The Princess and the Pea
2002
The Scapegoat
2012
Clockwise
1986
The Carer
2016
Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience
2017
Peppa's Cinema Party
2024
The Royal
2003
Frozen
2005
Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun
2019
ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
2005
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell
1999
Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience
2025
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
2015
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
2024
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000
Dogboy
1992
On Dangerous Ground
1996
King of the Wind
1990
The Yob
1988
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year
2019
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985
Margery and Gladys
2003
Out of Town
1988
Cruel Train
1995
Up 'n' Under
1998
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000
Sorry About Last Night
1995
Isle of Spagg
2011
A Pinch of Snuff
1994
Puckoon
2002
Peppa Pig: The Holiday
2013
Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas Visit
2020
