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.
81 acting credits
Acting · 81
Casualty
1986
Peppa Pig
2004
Minder
1979
Heartbeat
1992
Matlock
1986
Merlin
2008
Highlander: The Series
1992
Endeavour
2013
New Tricks
2004
Relic Hunter
1999
Red Dwarf
1988
The Bill
1984
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
Pie in the Sky
1994
The Pianist
2002
Timewatch
1982
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
Murder in Mind
2001
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985
Born and Bred
2002
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988
The Brothers Grimm
2005
Fat Friends
2000
ShakespeaRe-Told
2005
The Physician
2013
Home to Roost
1985
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
Oliver Twist
2005
Common As Muck
1994
Mayo
2006
Nature Boy
2000
Amazing Grace
2006
The Fourth Protocol
1987
Six Wives with Lucy Worsley
2016
Erik the Viking
1989
Lassiter
1984
Creation
2009
Roman Mysteries
2007
Fairly Secret Army
1984
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell
1999
Fierce Creatures
1997
Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience
2017
The Princess and the Pea
2002
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000
The Royal
2003
The Wind in the Willows
1996
Clockwise
1986
Faintheart
2009
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000
The Scapegoat
2012
Comics
1993
Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience
2025
The Yob
1988
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year
2019
Puckoon
2002
The Carer
2016
Frozen
2005
ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
2005
The Ink Thief
1994
Cruel Train
1995
On Dangerous Ground
1996
King of the Wind
1990
The Castle of Adventure
1990
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
2024
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985
Peppa's Cinema Party
2024
A Pinch of Snuff
1994
Margery and Gladys
2003
Peppa Pig: The Holiday
2013
Up 'n' Under
1998
Sorry About Last Night
1995
Dogboy
1992
Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun
2019
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
2015
Out of Town
1988
Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas Visit
2020
Isle of Spagg
2011