Richard Ridings
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.
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Movies (47)

Festive Fun with Peppa
2026

Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience
2025 · Daddy Pig (voice)

Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
2024 · Daddy Pig (voice)

Peppa's Cinema Party
2024 · Daddy Pig (voice)

Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas Visit
2020 · Daddy Pig (voice)

Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun
2019 · Daddy Pig (voice)

Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience
2017 · Daddy Pig (voice)

The Carer
2016 · Landlord, Pub Landlord

Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
2015 · Daddy Pig (voice)

El Médico
2013 · Tough Guy

Peppa Pig: A Christmas Compilation
2013 · Vocals

Peppa Pig: The Holiday
2013 · Daddy Pig (voice)

The Scapegoat
2012 · Landlord

Isle of Spagg
2011 · Bob / Mel (voice)

El planeta de los simios: (R)evolución
2011 · Buck

Creación
2009 · Thatcher

Faintheart
2009 · Collin

Sublime gracia
2007 · Speaker of the House

ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
2005 · Maurice

Oliver Twist
2005 · Warder

Los Hermanos Grimm
2005 · Bunst

Frozen
2005 · Lorry Driver

Margery and Gladys
2003 · Terry Mason

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - La cuna de la vida
2003 · Mr. Monza

El Pianista
2002 · Mr. Lipa

The Princess and the Pea
2002 · King Windham/Button (voice)

Puckoon
2002 · Alex Walker

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000 · Det. Supt. Dick Holland

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999 · La Hire

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell
1999 · André

Up 'n' Under
1998 · Frank

Fierce Creatures
1997 · Hugh

The Wind in the Willows
1996 · The Guard

On Dangerous Ground
1996 · Thomas Borga

Sorry About Last Night
1995 · Greg

Cruel Train
1995 · Percy Cotton

A Pinch of Snuff
1994 · Brian Burkhill

Dogboy
1992 · Diner Cook #1

King of the Wind
1990 · Jailer

Erik the Viking
1989 · Thorfinn Skullsplitter

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988 · Angelo

The Yob
1988 · Yob 1

Out of Town
1988 · Labourer

The Fourth Protocol
1987 · Skinhead

Clockwise
1986 · Policeman at Crash

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985 · Egyptian

Lassiter
1984 · German Guard
TV shows (40)

Six Wives with Lucy Worsley
2016 · Henry VIII

Gummibär & Friends: The Gummy Bear Show
2016 · Grumpy McCrab

Endeavour: El joven Morse
2013 · DI Chesney Finch

Merlín
2008 · Halig

Roman Mysteries
2007 · Venalicius

Mayo
2006 · Mark Castello

ShakespeaRe-Told
2005

Peppa Pig
2004 · Daddy Pig (voice)

小猪佩奇国语版
2004 · Daddy Pig (voice)

The Worst Week of My Life
2004 · PC Tait

New Tricks
2004

The Royal
2003 · Malcolm Hogg

Born and Bred
2002 · Horace Trubshaw

Murder in Mind
2001 · DCI Quarry

Fat Friends
2000 · Alan Ashburn

Nature Boy
2000 · Ted

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000 · Det. Supt. Dick Holland

Cazatesoros
1999 · Johnny

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997 · Reverend Thwackum

Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Trevor Nesbitt

Common As Muck
1994 · Bernard Green

The Ink Thief
1994 · Aloysius

Pie in the Sky
1994 · Gary Bourne

Comics
1993 · Tommy Karr

Highlander: El inmortal
1992 · Silas

Heartbeat
1992 · Thorpe

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992 · Andre

The Castle of Adventure
1990 · Nico

Red Dwarf
1988 · DNA Ship Computer (voice), Crazed Astro
The Ritz
1987 · Mad Mick

Casualty
1986 · Kevin, Jack

Matlock
1986 · Nicky

Home to Roost
1985 · Millwall

Dempsey and Makepeace
1985 · Tulley's Sidekick
Fairly Secret Army
1984 · Ron Boat

The Bill
1984

Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983 · Vanderberg

The Comic Strip Presents...
1982 · Yob 1

Timewatch
1982 · Elder Sextus

Minder
1979 · Warren

