
Richard Ridings
Acting
Born 1958-09-19 · Henley-on-Thames, England, UK
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

Peppa Pig
2004 · TV

Fat Friends
2000 · TV

Common As Muck
1994 · TV

The Ink Thief
1994 · TV

The Castle of Adventure
1990 · TV

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997 · TV

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000 · TV

Matlock
1986 · TV

Highlander: The Series
1992 · TV

Roman Mysteries
2007 · TV

Merlin
2008 · TV

Minder
1979 · TV

Casualty
1986 · TV

Endeavour
2013 · TV

Comics
1993 · TV

Heartbeat
1992 · TV

Relic Hunter
1999 · TV

New Tricks
2004 · TV

Red Dwarf
1988 · TV

The Bill
1984 · TV

Pie in the Sky
1994 · TV

The Comic Strip Presents...
1982 · TV

Born and Bred
2002 · TV

Murder in Mind
2001 · TV

Dalziel & Pascoe
1996 · TV

Dempsey and Makepeace
1985 · TV

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992 · TV

ShakespeaRe-Told
2005 · TV

Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983 · TV

Timewatch
1982 · TV

The Royal
2003 · TV

Nature Boy
2000 · TV

Six Wives with Lucy Worsley
2016 · TV

Home to Roost
1985 · TV

Mayo
2006 · TV