Richard Ridings
{{Short description|English actor}}
{{BLP sources|date=May 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Richard Ridings
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| birth_name = Richard John Ridings
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|9|19}}
| birth_place = Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
| occupation = Actor
| years active = 1983–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Catherine Jensen|c. 1984}}{{cite web |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/I+cried+for+ages+after+Dunblane%3B+Questions+%2B+Answers%3A+RICHARD+RIDINGS.-a061127061 |title=I cried for ages after Dunblane; Questions + Answers: RICHARD RIDINGS. |date=22 January 1997 |work=The Mirror}}
| children = Freya Ridings{{cite web |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/music/freya-ridings-interview-love-island-a4004651.html |title=Freya Ridings interview: 'I feel like it was a horse race, and I'm a zebra' |last=McClean |first=Craig |date=30 November 2018 |work=Evening Standard}}
| alma_mater = Bretton Hall College
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
}}
Richard John Ridings (born 19 September 1958) is an English actor. He portrayed Alan Ashburn in the ITV television drama Fat Friends, Mr. Lipa in the Academy Award-nominated World War II drama The Pianist (2002), 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.
Career
He had roles in a series of other television series and feature films, among them Clockwise, The Ink Thief, Red Dwarf, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Fierce Creatures and as Silas in Highlander: The Series. Ridings voices Daddy Pig in the animated children's series Peppa Pig, Father Christmas and Boss Dwarf in Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom, and Grooby in Q Pootle 5. In 2005, he took the lead role in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Clement Doesn't Live Here Anymore, playing a sexually obsessed overweight ghost alongside Steve Furst and Amanda Abbington. The second series was transmitted in May, 2007.{{cite web | url = https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0725956/ | access-date = 3 May 2015 | website = IMDb | title = Richard Ridings}}
Ridings has also provided voiceovers in video games, including the voice of Sarge in Quake III Arena, the Mentor in Dungeon Keeper and Dungeon Keeper 2, Mendechaus in War for the Overworld, Roach in Heavenly Sword, General Pig in Puppeteer, and ex-lawman Giles the Farmer in Fable II, on the Xbox 360 video game console. In 2010 he also provided the voice of Pigsy, in the video game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and of Cornell (the Dark Lord of the Lycanthropes) in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. In 2011 he provided the voice of the leader of the Machina refugees, Miqol, in Xenoblade Chronicles and in 2013 he provided the voice of the Hunter in DmC: Devil May Cry, the Daemon Lord in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate, and the Green Man in Tearaway. In 2016 he voiced Thorgrim Grudgebearer in Total War: Warhammer.
Most recently, Ridings played a courageous ape named "Buck" in the "Planet of the Apes" prequel, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which was released in August 2011. In 2015, he played Mr Bumble in the BBC miniseries Dickensian.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable"
! width="33"|Year ! width="225"|Film ! width="175"| Role ! width="175"| Director ! width="175"| Notes |
| 1984
|German Guard #2 | |
| 1986
|Policeman at Crash | |
| 1987
|Skinhead | |
| 1987
|Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire |Egypt | |
| 1988
|Angelo | |
| 1989
|Out of Town |Labourer |Norman Hull |Short film |
| 1989
|Thorfinn Skullsplitter | |
| 1990
|Jailer | |
| 1996
| |Uncredited |
| 1996
|The Guard | |
| 1997
|Hugh Primates | |
| 1998
|Frank | |
| 1999
|The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | |
| 2002
|Mr. Lipa | |
| 2002
|Puckoon |Alex Walker | |
| 2002
|King Windham / Button |Mark Swan |Voice |
| 2003
|Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life |Mr. Monza | |
| 2005
|Lorry Driver |Juliet McKoen | |
| 2005
|Bunst | |
| 2005
|Warder | |
| 2006
|Speaker of the House | |
| 2008
|Collin |Vito Rocco | |
| 2009
|Thatcher | |
| 2011
|Rise of the Planet of the Apes |Buck | |
| 2011
|Isle of Spagg |Bob / Mel |Voice |
| 2012
|Landlord | |
| 2012
|The Horsemen |Gary |Samuel Bailey |Short film |
| 2013
|National Theatre Live: This House |Joe Harper | |
| 2013
|Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart |Arthur |Stéphane Berla |Voice (English version) |
| 2013
|Tough Guy | |
| 2015
|Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots |Daddy Pig (UK) |Mark Baker |Voice |
| 2016
|The Carer |Pub Landlord |János Edelényi | |
=TV series=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
!Title !Role !Notes |
|---|
| 1983
|Vanderberg |1.02 "Prelude to War" |
| 1984–1986
|Ron Boat |10 episodes |
| 1986
|Tulley's Sidekick |3.08 "The Cortez Connection" |
| 1987
|Mad Mick |6 episodes |
| 1987
|Nicky |2.01 "The Billionaire" |
| 1987
|Millwall |3.05 "Crime Watch" |
| 1987
|The Continental |Mad Mick |Television film |
| 1988
|Yob 1 |4.04 "The Yob" |
| 1988
|Kevin |3.02 "Desperate Odds" |
| 1988
|Alistair |2.16 "Twitching" |
| 1989
|Campbell |5.49 "A Quiet Life" |
| 1989
|Bulmer |1.10 "Three Blind Mice" |
| 1990
|Nico |8 episodes |
| 1991
|D.N.A. Ship Computer |Voice |
| 1992
|Steve |1.06 "Blind Date" |
| 1992
|The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles |Andre |2.02 "Somme, Early August 1916" |
| 1992
|Diner Cook #1 |5 episodes |
| 1992
|Boon |Keith |7.07 "The Sharp End" |
| 1993
|Warren |9.02 "No Way to Treat a Daley" |
| 1993
|Comics |Tommy Karr |2 episodes |
| 1993
|Jack |8.02 "Riders on the Storm" |
| 1993
|Red Dwarf |Crazed Astro |6.01 "Psirens" |
| 1993
|Kevin |5.06 "Money for Nothing" |
| 1994
|Brian Burkhill |Television film |
| 1994
|Gary Bourne |1.09 "Who Only Stand and Wait" |
| 1994
|Wild Justice |Carl |Television film |
| 1994
|Aloysius |7 episodes |
| 1994–1997
|Bernard Green |12 episodes |
| 1994
|Thorpe |4.15 "A Bird in the Hand" |
| 1995
|The All New Alexei Sayle Show | |2.03 "Episode #2.3" |
| 1995
|Sorry About Last Night |Greg |Television film |
| 1995
|Percy Cotton |Television film |
| 1996
|On Dangerous Ground |Thomas Borga |Television film |
| 1997
|2 episodes |
| 1997
|The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling |Reverend Thwackum |5 episodes |
| 1998
|Ted Stokes |12.22 "Love Me Tender" |
| 2000
|This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper |Det. Supt. Dick Holland |Television miniseries |
| 2000
|Nature Boy |Ted |Television miniseries |
| 2000
|PC Buns |1.06 "A Man of Substance" |
| 2000
|Johnny the Jackhammer |1.21 "Nothing But the Truth" |
| 2000–2004
|Alan Ashburn |14 episodes |
| 2001
|DCI Quarry |1.01 "Teacher" |
| 2001
|Paul Foster |5.13 "Declaration" |
| 2001
|Ben Ormerod |1.09 "Crying Out Loud" |
| 2002
|Horace Trubshaw |1.03 "The Inspector Calls" |
| 2002
|D.I. Andy Hateley |3.06 "An Inspector Calls" |
| 2003
|Terry Mason |Television film |
| 2004
|Trevor Nesbitt |8.03 "Great Escapes" |
| 2004–present
|Daddy Pig (UK) |Voice (main character) |
| 2004
|Robbie Beresford |18.39 "The Good Father" |
| 2005
|Elder Sextus |24.02 "Murder in Rome" |
| 2005
|The Shape of the Future |Narrator (voice) |Television documentary |
| 2005
|Robbie |2.07 "Fluke of Luck" |
| 2005
|Barry |3 episodes |
| 2005
|Maurice |1.02 "Macbeth" |
| 2005
|PC Tait |2 episodes |
| 2006
|Mayo |Mark Castello |1.02 "Requiem for a Dove" |
| 2006
|Malcolm Hogg |5.11 "Keep on Running" |
| 2007
|Venalicius |3 episodes |
| 2008
|Vince |23.16 "This Will Be Our Year" |
| 2009
|Halig |2.09 "The Lady of the Lake" |
| 2011
|Jeff Hollins |13.67 "Sunday Sunday" |
| 2012
|Roy Benson |14.21 "Fresh Blood" |
| 2009–2012
|Big Bad Barry |Voice |
| 2013–2014
|Groobie / Planet Dave |Voice |
| 2013
|50 Greatest Kids Shows |Himself |Television documentary |
| 2013
|Great MoVie Mistakes |Himself (voice) |Television documentary |
| 2014
|Henning |1.03 "The Village Rivals" |
| 2014
|Q Pootle 5: Pootle All the Way! |Groobie / Planet Dave |Voice |
| 2014
|Adriano Castellesi |3.09 "1503, Part One" |
| 2015
|Hamish |Voice |
| 2016
|Thornhill |2 episodes |
| 2015–2016
|Voice |
| 2013
|Himself |2.12 "Richard Ridings" |
| 2016
|Highlander: Dark Places |Narrator |Voice |
| 2016
|Six Wives with Lucy Worsley |King Henry, VIII |1.03 "Divorced, Beheaded, Survived" |
| 2018
|Bob Gray |Voice |
=Video games=
| class = "wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1997
|The Mentor (voice) | |
| 1997
|Viruses (voice) |
| 1999
| Silver |Fuge (voice) | |
| 1999
|Sarge (voice) | |
| 1999
|The Mentor (voice) | |
| 2000
| Imperium Galactica II: Alliances |Additional Voices (voice) |English version |
| 2005
|Thorn (voice) | |
| 2005
|Kabuto (voice) |English version |
| 2007
|Roach (voice) | |
| 2008
|Additional Voices (voice) | |
| 2008
| Fable II |Farmer Giles (voice) | |
| 2009
|Additional Helghast Voices (voice) | |
| 2009
| Risen |Karakos (voice) |English version |
| 2010
|Miqol (voice) |English version |
| 2010
| Enslaved: Odyssey to the West |Pigsy (voice) | |
| 2010
| Castlevania: Lords of Shadow |Cornell (voice) |English version |
| 2010
|Additional Voices (voice) | |
| 2011
|Helghast Soldiers (voice) | |
| 2011
| Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine |Space Marine (voice) | |
| 2011
|Duke Kendoh (voice) | |
| 2013
|Hunter (voice) | |
| 2013
| Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate |Daemon Lord (voice) | |
| 2013
|General Pig (voice) | |
| 2014
|Horned Reaper (voice) | |
| 2014
| Lego The Hobbit: The Video Game |Additional Voices (voice) | |
| 2014
|Additional Voices (voice) | |
| 2014
|Additional Voices (voice) | |
| 2015
| Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below |Additional Voices (voice) |English version |
| 2015
|Mendechaus (voice) | |
| 2015
|The Green Man (voice) | |
| 2016
|Azhag the Slaughterer (voice) | |
| 2016
|King of Harba (voice) |English version |
| 2018
| Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom | King Leonhard (voice) | English version |
| 2020
| Chieftain Kabrax Faithful (voice) | English version |
| 2023
| Thorgrim Grudgebearer (voice) | Immortal Empires Trailer and Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs DLC |
=Theatre=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |
| scope=col| Year
!scope=col| Title !scope=col| Role !scope=col| Director !scope=col class=unsortable|Performance history |
|---|
| scope=row| 1984
| Bouncers | Lucky Eric / Judd | West End, Tour |
| scope=row| 1984
| Frank Rowley | John Gobler | Hull Truck Theatre |
| scope=row| 1987
| Putting on the Ritz | Mad Mick | John Godber | Haymarket Leicester |
| scope=row| 1988
| Bill Walker | Chichester |
| scope=row| 1990
| Constable Dull | RSC |
| scope=row| 1991
| Ajax | RSC |
| scope=row| 1991
| Duke of Cornwall | RSC |
| scope=row| 2013
| Joe Harper | National Theatre |
References
General
- {{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weQqYThhMDg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/weQqYThhMDg |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Dungeon Keeper Interview: Richard Ridings |last=Skalski |first=Jeff |date=5 February 2014 |website=YouTube |publisher=EA Mobile Games }}{{cbignore}}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/richard-ridings/48538/richard-ridings-interview-daddy-pig-from-peppa-pig |title=Richard Ridings interview: Daddy Pig from Peppa Pig |last=Connelly |first=Brendon |date=7 April 2017 |website=Den of Geek }}
Specific
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0725956|Richard Ridings}}
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