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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 19, 1958
Place of Birth
Henley-on-Thames, England, UK
Also Known As
- Richard Riding
Richard Ridings
2.0 Popularity
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.
Known For
10.0
Daddy Pig (voice)
Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience
2025
10.0
Daddy Pig (voice)
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
2024
4.0
Daddy Pig (voice)
Peppa's Cinema Party
2024
0.0
Daddy Pig (voice)
Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas Visit
2020
7.6
Daddy Pig (voice)
Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun
2019
4.0
Daddy Pig
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year
2019
8.5
Daddy Pig (voice)
Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience
2017
6.8
Henry VIII
Six Wives with Lucy Worsley
2016
6.6
Landlord
The Carer
2016
6.6
Pub Landlord
The Carer
2016
Credits
Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience
as Daddy Pig (voice)
2025
10.0
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
as Daddy Pig (voice)
2024
10.0
Peppa's Cinema Party
as Daddy Pig (voice)
2024
4.0
Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas Visit
as Daddy Pig (voice)
2020
0.0
Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun
as Daddy Pig (voice)
2019
7.6
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year
as Daddy Pig
2019
4.0
Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience
as Daddy Pig (voice)
2017
8.5
Six Wives with Lucy Worsley
as Henry VIII
2016
6.8
The Carer
as Landlord
2016
6.6
The Carer
as Pub Landlord
2016
6.6
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
as Daddy Pig (voice)
2015
10.0
Endeavour
as DI Chesney Finch
2013
8.1
Peppa Pig: The Holiday
as Daddy Pig (voice)
2013
1.0
The Scapegoat
as Landlord
2012
6.4
Isle of Spagg
as Bob / Mel (voice)
2011
0.0
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as Buck
2011
7.3
Creation
as Thatcher
2009
6.4
Faintheart
as Collin
2009
6.3
Merlin
as Halig
2008
7.8
Roman Mysteries
as Venalicius
2007
5.0
Amazing Grace
as Speaker of the House
2006
6.9
Mayo
as Mark Castello
2006
4.2
Macbeth
as Maurice
2005
7.6
ShakespeaRe-Told
2005
7.5
Oliver Twist
as Warder
2005
6.7
The Brothers Grimm
as Bunst
2005
5.8
Frozen
as Lorry Driver
2005
5.7
Peppa Pig
as Daddy Pig (voice)
2004
6.6
New Tricks
2004
7.4
Margery and Gladys
as Terry Mason
2003
7.4
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
as Mr. Monza
2003
5.8
The Royal
as Malcolm Hogg
2003
7.6
The Pianist
as Mr. Lipa
2002
8.4
The Princess and the Pea
as King Windham/Button (voice)
2002
7.2
Born and Bred
as Horace Trubshaw
2002
8.5
Puckoon
as Alex Walker
2002
6.2
Murder in Mind
as DCI Quarry
2001
8.4
Fat Friends
as Alan Ashburn
2000
7.7
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
as Det. Supt. Dick Holland
2000
7.6
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
as Det. Supt. Dick Holland
2000
7.0
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
as La Hire
1999
6.4
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell
as André
1999
5.7
Relic Hunter
as Johnny the Jackhammer
1999
6.7
Up 'n' Under
as Frank
1998
4.9
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
as Reverend Thwackum
1997
7.0
Fierce Creatures
as Hugh Primates
1997
6.2
The Wind in the Willows
as The Guard
1996
5.7
On Dangerous Ground
as Thomas Borga
1996
4.8
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
6.3
Sorry About Last Night
as Greg
1995
6.0
Cruel Train
as Percy Cotton
1995
3.3
Common As Muck
as Bernard Green
1994
6.7
The Ink Thief
as Aloysius
1994
0.0
A Pinch of Snuff
as Brian Burkhill
1994
0.0
Pie in the Sky
as Gary Bourne
1994
8.3
Comics
as Tommy Karr
1993
1.0
Highlander: The Series
as Silas
1992
7.4
Dogboy
as Diner Cook #1
1992
5.0
Heartbeat
as Thorpe
1992
7.1
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Andre
1992
6.5
King of the Wind
as Jailer
1990
6.4
Erik the Viking
as Thorfinn Skullsplitter
1989
5.9
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
as Angelo
1988
7.5
The Yob
as Yob 1
1988
0.0
Red Dwarf
as DNA Ship Computer (voice)
1988
8.1
Red Dwarf
as Crazed Astro
1988
8.1
Out of Town
as Labourer
1988
6.0
The Fourth Protocol
as Skinhead
1987
6.3
Casualty
as Kevin
1986
6.1
Casualty
as Jack
1986
6.1
Matlock
as Nicky
1986
7.1
Clockwise
as Policeman at Crash
1986
6.2
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
as Egyptian
1985
5.9
Home to Roost
as Millwall
1985
6.3
Dempsey and Makepeace
as Tulley's Sidekick
1985
6.4
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Fairly Secret Army
as Ron Boat
1984
5.0
The Bill
1984
6.7
Lassiter
as German Guard
1984
5.3
Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Vanderberg
1983
7.0
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Yob 1
1982
7.4
Timewatch
as Elder Sextus
1982
6.9
Minder
as Warren
1979
6.8