Richard Durden
{{short description|British actor}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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| birth_name = Mark Richard Durden-Smith
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|02|08|df=y}}
| birth_place = Hendon, Middlesex, England
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| yearsactive = 1967–present
| occupation = Actor
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Maria Aitken|1968|1971|reason=divorce}}
- {{marriage|Jane How|1996}}
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Mark Richard Durden-Smith (born 8 February 1944), known as Richard Durden, is an English actor, with a range of television, film and stage credits.
Personal life
Durden-Smith was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Merton College, Oxford in 1963.{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900-1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=548}}
Durden-Smith and Maria Aitken were married in 1968 and divorced in 1971. In 1996 he married actress Jane How.
His older brother was Jo Durden-Smith.
Filmography
=Film=
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| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Doctor Faustus | Evil Angel / Knight | |
| 1970 | Scars of Dracula | Second Officer | |
| 1989 | Batman | TV Director | |
| 1993 | The Innocent | Black | |
| 1995 | The Grotesque | Sykes-Herring | |
| 1996 | Beaumarchais | Smith | |
| 1998 | The First 9½ Weeks | Laurence Garner | |
| 1999 | Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei | Barão de Rosthschild | |
| 2001 | Superstition | Minister of Justice | |
| 2002 | Amen. | Ambassador Taylor | |
| 2002 | The Reckoning | Town Justice | |
| 2005 | The Jacket | Dr. Hale | |
| 2005 | Oliver Twist | Unkind Board Member | |
| 2005 | The Best Man | Reverend | |
| 2009 | Agora | Olympius | |
| 2009 | The Heavy | Carl | |
| 2009 | 21 and a Wake-Up | 24th Evac Staff and Patients | |
| 2010 | From Paris With Love | Ambassador Thomas Bennington | |
| 2011 | Anonymous | Archbishop | |
| 2011 | The Awakening | Alexander Cathcart | |
| 2012 | Papadopoulos & Sons | Father Jimmy | |
| 2015 | Je suis daddy | Nigel Lawson | |
| 2016 | Late Shift | Samuel Parr | |
| 2017 | Churchill | Jan Smuts | |
| 2018 | Havergill | ||
| 2018 | Postcards from London | Max | |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | First Order Officer #6 |
=Television=
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| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Inspector Morse | Alan Richards | 1 episode |
| 1988 | Piece of Cake | Medical Officer | 1 episode |
| 1988 | Noble House | Havergill | 4 episodes |
| 1989 | The Man Who Lived at the Ritz | Man Ray | TV movie |
| 1993 | Agatha Christie's Poirot; The Case of the Missing Will | Dr Pritchard | 1 episode |
| 1997 | Dressing for Breakfast | Graham | 3 episodes |
| 1999 | The Worst Witch | The Chief Wizard, Egbert Hellibore | 3 episodes |
| 1999 | Highlander | Anton Novak | 1 episode |
| 2003 | Midsomer Murders | Duncan Goff | 1 episode |
| 2004 | Dunkirk | Lord Halifax | TV movie, Documentary |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Mr. Prestcott | 1 episode |
| 2006 | Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial | Lord Justice Lawrence | 3 episodes, Documentary |
| 2007 | Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud | Old Man Hatfield | TV movie |
| 2009 | The Last Days of Lehman Brothers | Harvey Miller | TV movie |
| 2014 | Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death | Mr. Boggle | TV movie / Pilot episode |
| 2015 | Wolf Hall | Bishop Fisher | 1 episode |
| 2016 | Agatha Raisin | Mr. Boggle | 3 episodes |
| 2019– | Back to Life | Oscar | Series 1 and 2 |
| 2019 | Brexit: The Uncivil War | Bill Cash | TV movie |
| 2019–23 | Ghosts | Charles Worthing | 4 episodes |
| 2021 | Silent Witness | Conor | 1 episode{{cite web |title=BBC One - Silent Witness, Series 24, Brother's Keeper, Part 1 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00104hy |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 September 2021}} |
On radio, he played Bashwood in Armadale.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0243983|name=Richard Durden}}
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Category:Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
Category:English male soap opera actors
Category:People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Category:Actors from the London Borough of Barnet
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