Richard Ridings
Also Known As: Richard Riding
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Henley-on-Thames, England, UK
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Birthday: September 19, 1958
Age: 66 years old
Gender: Male
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The Pianist
Overview: The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-17
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The Brothers Grimm
Overview: Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-26
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Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience
Overview: Join Peppa in this exciting new preschool cinema experience, with plenty of snorts, giggles and jumping up and down in muddy puddles! Leading with "Peppa Visits London," the first of the never-before-seen episodes, Peppa and her friends hop on board a double-decker red bus as the Queen takes them on an unforgettable tour of iconic London landmarks including Big Ben, Tower Bridge and Trafalgar Square. The other new ‘oink-tastic episodes include "The Police," "Canal Boat,""‘The Zoo," "Move to the Music" and a four-part story in which viewers will join Peppa on an Australian holiday to visit her old friend, Kylie Kangaroo.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-07
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Lassiter
Overview: A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas Visit
Overview: The Peppa Pig Peppa's Christmas Visit DVD is Peppa Pig's exciting everyday adventure with little brother George and their family and friends. The Peppa Pig Peppa's Christmas Visit DVD. A little pig named Peppa and her little brother George have journeys everyday with their family and friends.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-16
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Creation
Overview: A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he struggles to finish his legendary book "On the Origin of the Species," which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Overview: In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-27
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The Yob
Overview: An illegal psychic teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, and pretentious promo director Patrick gets his genes mixed with those of a football hooligan. Slowly, he begins to change - taking on some undeniably yobbish tendencies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-12
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Dogboy
Overview: Live action adaptation of Charles Burns' comic series from RAW magazine, premiered on MTV's Liquid Television.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-24
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Up 'n' Under
Overview: The Cobblers Arms have been the best and most feared Amateur Rugby League team for the past ten years. Ex-pro Arthur bets their boss that he could train a bunch of deadbeats to defeat them in a local rugby sevens tournament. But to do so he must first get them into shape with the help of the very attractive Hazel Scott.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-23
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Erik the Viking
Overview: Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking life.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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Peppa's Cinema Party
Overview: In celebration of British children’s series Peppa Pig‘s 20th anniversary, the event offers ten exclusive never-before-seen season 10 episodes, including a three-part Wedding Party Special. A party bus bonus episode will also be included together with new interactive entertainment featuring Peppa and her friends breaking into the real world through a mixture of animation and live-action with five brand-new songs to sing along to.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-07
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Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun
Overview: Join the party with Peppa and George in their brand new adventures as they dance in the mud at a children’s festival, celebrate Grandpa Pig’s birthday at a restaurant for the first time, and take a trip to the cinema to see Super Potato’s big movie feature!
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-05
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Cruel Train
Overview: In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a child by the Chairman of the Line, also her godfather. With her assistance, Ruben plots murder on the Brighton Express.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Fierce Creatures
Overview: Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most impressive and dangerous animals are allowed to remain in the zoo. However, the keepers are less enthusiastic about complying with these demands.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-23
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Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
Overview: Peppa Pig loves jumping up and down in puddles wearing her golden boots. Unfortunately, Mrs Duck takes a liking to Peppa's boots and runs away with them! With the help of her friends, Peppa must travel across land, sea, and even into space to track down the golden boots before the big Puddle Jump competition.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-14
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This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Overview: This is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-26
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Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Overview: Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world champion; the loser will never play professional snooker again.
Genres: Western Comedy Horror Music Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-25
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell
Overview: As a young soldier in the Belgian Army, Indy learns firsthand the savagery of warfare while participating in the Battle of the Somme. Almost succumbing to despair as his life becomes an endless round of artillery barrages, nerve gas attacks and decaying corpses, Indy fears that death will be his only way out. Then he is captured by the Germans and confined to a POW camp where he and fellow prisoner Charles de Gaulle hatch a daring scheme to win their freedom in true "Great Escape" style.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-24
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Sorry About Last Night
Overview: A romantic comedy written by and starring Alexei Sayle. A couple on a first date in London are determined to find a drink after closing time, to prove to themselves that they are not careworn and middle-aged. What follows is a series of misadventures
Genres: TV Movie Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-27
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The Carer
Overview: Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-05
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Faintheart
Overview: A romantic comedy set in the world of battle re-enactments, about an irresponsible guy who has to shape up in order to win back his wife.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-27
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The Wind in the Willows
Overview: Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-16
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The Scapegoat
Overview: In 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, two very different men have one thing in common—a face.
Genres: Mystery Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-09
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Margery and Gladys
Overview: When wealthy, recently-widowed suburban housewife, Margery (PENELOPE KEITH), and her ‘rough diamond’ of a cleaner, Gladys (JUNE BROWN), disturb a house burglar, they knock him unconscious, panic and leave him for dead, fleeing in the cleaner’s wrecked old car. What follows is a comedy of misunderstandings in which these two very different, mature ladies are led on an unfortunate series of incidents which snowballs into a crime spree. They prove to be more than a match for the unlikely pair of policemen, DI Woolley (Roger Lloyd Pack) and DS Stringer (Martin Freeman), who are left to solve the ladies disappearance and puzzling string of crimes which follow. As the police net tightens around them, the two very different, mature ladies are propelled on a shared voyage of self-discovery as skeletons fall from the closets forcing both women to reflect on their past lives.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-21
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Oliver Twist
Overview: An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Genres: Crime Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Overview: A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caesar decides to revolt against those who have harmed him.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-03
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Amazing Grace
Overview: The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-16
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Puckoon
Overview: Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Overview: Off the coast of the volcanic island of Santorini, the intrepid archaeologist Lara Croft makes the unexpected discovery of a pulsating golden orb able to guide its holder to the mythical Pandora's Box. As the legendary artifact contains ancient mysteries of unfathomable power - said to contain one of the deadliest plagues on Earth, Lara is tasked by MI6 to make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. With the aid of former Marine turned mercenary Terry Sheridan, she travels the world in pursuit of the precious item in a race against time; she must beat the unscrupulous Nobel Prize-winning scientist turned bioterrorist, Jonathan Reiss, to it.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-21
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A Pinch of Snuff
Overview: Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showing adult entertainment movies. Shorter is convinced that one particular scene in a movie he recently saw was too realistic to have been staged with fake blood, but when Pascoe and his bluff superior Andy Dalziel starts investigating, they soon comes across the actress in question, Linda Abbott, who obviously didn't suffer from any harm and assures Pascoe that the concerns are unnecessary.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-09
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Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year
Overview: Tang Yuan, Jiao Zi and their family enjoy Chinese New Year together, learning about traditions, and sharing Peppa Pig stories.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-02-05
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Frozen
Overview: It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath remains haunted by a need to know what happened. When police investigations wind down, Kath continues the search herself. She gets nowhere until she steals some CCTV footage of her sister on her final day. Visiting the spot where Annie was filmed, Kath becomes convinced she has found a portal to another reality and from this portal Kath is trying to say something.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-12
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Macbeth
Overview: A chef and his restaurant-hostess wife resort to murder to take ownership of a high-class Glaswegian restaurant.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-14
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The Fourth Protocol
Overview: Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-20
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Isle of Spagg
Overview: On the other side of the Vertic Sea where things are distinctly fishier.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-29
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The Carer
Overview: Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-05
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Overview: 'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-22
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Peppa Pig: The Holiday
Overview: Join Peppa and friends for 10 episodes, brand new to DVD for Easter 2013 including the 4 part special The Holiday. Includes: 1) Flying on Holiday 2) The Holiday House 3) Holiday in the Sun 4) The End of the Holiday 5) George's New Dinosaur 6) Grandpa Pig's Train to the Rescue 7) The Pet Competition 8) Spider Web 9) The Noisy Night 10) The Wishing Well. Plus bonus ep: 11) Madame Gazelle's Leaving Party
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-25
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King of the Wind
Overview: In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a gift to the King of France, through a series of adventures with his faithful stable boy, Agba, he becomes the Godolphin Arabian, the founder of one of the greatest thoroughbred racing lines of all time.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-25
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Out of Town
Overview: A man walking on a country road gets his foot stuck in a hole. But why will nobody stop to help?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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On Dangerous Ground
Overview: Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-13
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Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
Overview: Mr. Bull and Mrs. Cow surprise everyone with their wedding announcement and everyone rallies around to make it memorable!
Genres: Animation Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-27
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Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience
Overview: Join Peppa Pig and her family at the cinema as they get ready for their biggest adventure yet: welcoming a new baby.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-30
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