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.

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Richard Ridings is an English character actor and voice artist known for his extensive television and film work.
He is known for voicing Daddy Pig in Peppa Pig, portraying Alan Ashburn in Fat Friends, and appearing in films such as The Pianist and Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
He trained as an actor at Bretton Hall College and subsequently at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.