Richard Ridings

Born: 1958-09-19, Henley-on-Thames, England, UK

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.

Filmography

• Casualty (1986)
• Merlin (2008)
• Highlander: The Series (1992)
• Heartbeat (1992)
• Relic Hunter (1999)
• Endeavour (2013)
• The Pianist (2002)
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992)
• Dalziel and Pascoe (1996)
• Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
• Timewatch (1982)
• Pie in the Sky (1994)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• Born and Bred (2002)
• The Brothers Grimm (2005)
• The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
• Dempsey and Makepeace (1985)
• The Physician (2013)
• The Worst Week of My Life (2004)
• Joan of Arc (1999)
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003)
• The Fourth Protocol (1987)
• Erik the Viking (1989)
• Lassiter (1984)
• Six Wives with Lucy Worsley (2016)
• Roman Mysteries (2007)
• Fierce Creatures (1997)
• Amazing Grace (2006)
• Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience (2025)