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.
Filmography45 titles
Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience
The Pianist
Pie in the Sky
Endeavour
Red Dwarf
Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience
Fat Friends
Merlin
The Royal
Margery and Gladys
Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
ShakespeaRe-Told
Highlander: The Series
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
The Physician
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
New Tricks
The Princess and the Pea
Heartbeat
Matlock
King of the Wind
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Amazing Grace
Oliver Twist
The Bill
Relic Hunter
The Carer
Peppa Pig
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
The Scapegoat
Creation
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Dalziel and Pascoe
Fierce Creatures
Clockwise
Casualty
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
The Brothers Grimm
Erik the Viking
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Lassiter
On Dangerous Ground
Mayo