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.
TV credits
Rated 6.8 out of 10
Six Wives with Lucy Worsley
2016
Rated 0.0 out of 10
Gummibär & Friends: The Gummy Bear Show
2016
Rated 8.1 out of 10
Endeavour
2013
Rated 7.8 out of 10
Merlin
2008
Rated 5.0 out of 10
Roman Mysteries
2007
Rated 4.2 out of 10
Mayo
2006
Rated 7.4 out of 10
ShakespeaRe-Told
2005
Rated 6.6 out of 10
Peppa Pig
2004
Rated 8.2 out of 10
The Worst Week of My Life
2004
Rated 7.3 out of 10
New Tricks
2004
Rated 7.8 out of 10
The Royal
2003
Rated 9.0 out of 10
Born and Bred
2002
Rated 8.3 out of 10
Murder in Mind
2001
Rated 7.9 out of 10
Fat Friends
2000
Rated 7.3 out of 10
Nature Boy
2000
Rated 7.4 out of 10
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000
Rated 6.7 out of 10
Relic Hunter
1999
Rated 7.5 out of 10
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
Rated 6.4 out of 10
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Rated 7.0 out of 10
Common As Muck
1994
Rated 10.0 out of 10
The Ink Thief
1994
Rated 8.3 out of 10
Pie in the Sky
1994
Rated 3.3 out of 10
Comics
1993
Rated 7.4 out of 10
Highlander: The Series
1992