
Richard Ridings
Known for: Acting
Born: September 19, 1958
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

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000

Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience
2017

Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas Visit
2020

Dogboy
1992

Peppa's Cinema Party
2024

Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
2015

Peppa Pig: The Holiday
2013

Out of Town
1988

Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience
2025

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell
1999

Up 'n' Under
1998

Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun
2019

Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year
2019

Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
2024

Cruel Train
1995

Sorry About Last Night
1995

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985

Margery and Gladys
2003

ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth
2005

Isle of Spagg
2011

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999

The Brothers Grimm
2005

Faintheart
2009

Puckoon
2002

The Carer
2016

The Princess and the Pea
2002

The Pianist
2002

Fierce Creatures
1997

Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011

The Scapegoat
2012

Creation
2009

Erik the Viking
1989

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988

A Pinch of Snuff
1994

Frozen
2005

Amazing Grace
2006

The Wind in the Willows
1996

King of the Wind
1990

The Yob
1988

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003

On Dangerous Ground
1996

Lassiter
1984

Clockwise
1986

Oliver Twist
2005

The Fourth Protocol
1987

The Bill
1984

Matlock
1986

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997

Heartbeat
1992

Red Dwarf
1988

Peppa Pig
2004

New Tricks
2004

The Physician
2013

Mayo
2006

Timewatch
1982

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000
Fairly Secret Army
1984

Merlin
2008

Relic Hunter
1999

Roman Mysteries
2007

ShakespeaRe-Told
2005

The Royal
2003

Casualty
1986

Minder
1979

Pie in the Sky
1994

Six Wives with Lucy Worsley
2016

The Ink Thief
1994

Highlander: The Series
1992

Endeavour
2013

Common As Muck
1994

The Comic Strip Presents...
1982

Dempsey and Makepeace
1985

Home to Roost
1985

Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983

Murder in Mind
2001

Born and Bred
2002

Fat Friends
2000

Nature Boy
2000

The Castle of Adventure
1990

Comics
1993