Richard Ridings
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
The Ink Thief
1994 · 10.0
Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience
2025 · 10.0
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
2015 · 10.0
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
2024 · 10.0
Born and Bred
2002 · 9.0
The Pianist
2002 · 8.4
Pie in the Sky
1994 · 8.3
Murder in Mind
2001 · 8.3
The Worst Week of My Life
2004 · 8.2
Red Dwarf
1988 · 8.1
Endeavour
2013 · 8.1
Fat Friends
2000 · 8.0
Out of Town
1988 · 8.0
Sorry About Last Night
1995 · 8.0
Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience
2017 · 7.9
Merlin
2008 · 7.8
The Royal
2003 · 7.8
ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
2005 · 7.7
Margery and Gladys
2003 · 7.7
Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun
2019 · 7.6
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988 · 7.5
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997 · 7.5
Highlander: The Series
1992 · 7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982 · 7.4
ShakespeaRe-Told
2005 · 7.4
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000 · 7.4
The Princess and the Pea
2002 · 7.4
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011 · 7.4
The Physician
2013 · 7.3
New Tricks
2004 · 7.3
Nature Boy
2000 · 7.3
Minder
1979 · 7.2
Heartbeat
1992 · 7.1
Matlock
1986 · 7.0
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983 · 7.0
Common As Muck
1994 · 7.0
King of the Wind
1990 · 7.0
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000 · 7.0
Timewatch
1982 · 6.9
Amazing Grace
2007 · 6.9
The Bill
1984 · 6.8
Relic Hunter
1999 · 6.8
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985 · 6.8
Oliver Twist
2005 · 6.8
Six Wives with Lucy Worsley
2016 · 6.8
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992 · 6.6
Peppa Pig
2004 · 6.5
Home to Roost
1985 · 6.5
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · 6.4
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999 · 6.4
Creation
2009 · 6.4
The Carer
2016 · 6.4
The Scapegoat
2012 · 6.4
Faintheart
2009 · 6.3
The Fourth Protocol
1987 · 6.3
Puckoon
2002 · 6.3
Casualty
1986 · 6.2
Fierce Creatures
1997 · 6.2
Clockwise
1986 · 6.2
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985 · 6.1
Erik the Viking
1989 · 5.9
Frozen
2005 · 5.9
The Brothers Grimm
2005 · 5.9
Fairly Secret Army
1984 · 5.8
The Wind in the Willows
1996 · 5.8
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell
1999 · 5.8
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003 · 5.8
The Ritz
1987 · 5.5
Lassiter
1984 · 5.4
Up 'n' Under
1998 · 5.2
On Dangerous Ground
1996 · 5.1
Roman Mysteries
2007 · 5.0
Dogboy
1992 · 5.0
Mayo
2006 · 4.2
Cruel Train
1995 · 4.2
Peppa's Cinema Party
2024 · 4.0
Comics
1993 · 3.3
Peppa Pig: The Holiday
2013 · 1.0
Gummibär & Friends: The Gummy Bear Show
2016 · 0.0
The Castle of Adventure
1990 · 0.0
Festive Fun with Peppa
2026 · 0.0
Isle of Spagg
2011 · 0.0
A Pinch of Snuff
1994 · 0.0
The Yob
1988 · 0.0
Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas Visit
2020 · 0.0