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Allan Corduner

Acting

Born April 2, 1950 · Stockholm, Sweden

Also known as 알랜 코드너

Biography

Allan Corduner (born April 2, 1950) is an English actor born in Stockholm to a German mother and a Russo-Finnish father. He grew up in a secular Jewish home in London. After earning a BA (Hons) in English and Drama at Bristol University he trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has worked extensively on stage, TV, and film, both in the UK and in the United States. His voice is familiar from many BBC radio plays, audio books and TV documentaries. Corduner made his feature film debut in Yentl, with Barbra Streisand. Of his 44 films he is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Sir Arthur Sullivan in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy. He is married to Juha Leppäjärvi, a yoga instructor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allan Corduner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography50+ titles

Gadgetman

1996as Professor McNeil

Simon Schama's Power of Art

2006

Utopia

2013as Ross

FBI

2018as Victor Beniov

Fat Friends

2000as Leonard Harris

Inspector Morse

1987as Gentile Bellocchio

Mr. Nobody

2009as Dr. Feldheim

The Last Detective

2003

Foyle's War

2002as Carlo Lucciano

Daniel Deronda

2002as Herr Julius Klesmer

The Way We Live Now

2001as Croll

The Blacklist

2013as Aaron

Homeland

2011as Etai Luskin

Call the Midwife

2012as Arnold Gelin

Midsomer Murders

1997as Michael Hipsman

Woman in Gold

2015as Gustav Bloch-Bauer

Exile

2011as Geller

Vera Drake

2004as Psychiatrist

Heartbeat

1992as Tristram Johnstone

Tár

2022as Sebastian Brix

Zen

2011as Michelangelo Gattuso

The Musketeers

2014as Van Laar

Drop the Dead Donkey

1990as Critic

Talk Radio

1988as Vince / Morris

Disobedience

2017as Moshe Hartog

Poldark

1975as Manservant

Defiance

2008as Shimon Haretz

The Merchant of Venice

2004as Tubal

The Bill

1984

Tales of the Unexpected

1979as Hatchard's Bookshop Assistant

Fearless

2017as Monty Berman

Florence Foster Jenkins

2016as John Totten

Dancing on the Edge

2013as Mr. Wax

Mad About You

1992as Osofsky

Yentl

1983as Shimmele

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

2005as Greenhough Smith

The Grey Zone

2001as Nyiszli

Topsy-Turvy

1999as Sir Arthur Sullivan

Ridley Road

2021as Rabbi Lehrer

Closer to the Moon

2014as Flaviu

Me Without You

2001as Max

Moonlight Mile

2002as Stan Michaels

The Return of the Soldier

1983as Pianist at Party

The White Countess

2005as Samuel Feinstein

Edward II

1991as Poet

Fat Man and Little Boy

1989as Franz Goethe

Burke and Hare

2010as Nicephore

De-Lovely

2004as Monty Woolley

The Offering

2022as Saul

Fred Claus

2007as Dr. Goldfarb