Derek Riddell

Acting

Derek Riddell

Born January 11, 1967 · Glasgow, Scotland (age 59)

Derek Riddell (born 11 January 1967) is a Scottish television and theatre actor. He is best known for the portrayal of Richard Cawood in the BBC One television series Happy Valley. He is also known for Gentleman Jack, Industry and The Missing. He has guest-starred in Doctor Who, Ugly Betty, Silent Witness, Waterloo Road, and Shetland. Riddell was born in Glasgow, the son of teacher and former actr…

Known For

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of GrindelwaldFantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald · 2018
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
★ 6.82018
MovieFantasyAdventure
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
Mary ShelleyMary Shelley · 2017
Mary Shelley
★ 7.02017
MovieRomanceDrama
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Much Ado About NothingMuch Ado About Nothing · 2005
Much Ado About Nothing
★ 8.22005
MovieComedyDrama
Tensions mount in the TV studio when a take-charge anchor is reunited with a man she has a "history" with.
The Christmas QuestThe Christmas Quest · 2024
The Christmas Quest
★ 6.82024
MovieTV MovieRomance
An archaeologist, her ex-husband who is a Norse language expert, search for legendary treasure in Iceland during Christmas. Others join the hunt, leading to a thrilling race to secure the treasure before the wrong people obtain it.
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan ToomeyThe Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey · 2007
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
★ 6.02007
MovieFamily
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it.
National Theatre Live: Till The Stars Come DownNational Theatre Live: Till The Stars Come Down · 2024
National Theatre Live: Till The Stars Come Down
★ 10.02024
MovieDramaComedy
It's Sylvia and Marek's wedding and you are all invited. Over the course of a hot summer's day, a family gathers to welcome a newcomer into their midst. But as the vodka flows and dances are shared, passions boil over and the limits of love are tested. What happens when the happiest day of your life opens the door to a new, frightening and uncertain future?
Micro MenMicro Men · 2009
Micro Men
★ 7.12009
MovieDrama
In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry, in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students, set up his own, rival firm to Sinclair Radionics, Acorn. Acorn beat Sinclair to a lucrative contract supplying the BBC with machines for a computer series. From here on it is a battle for supremacy to gain the upper hand in the domestic market.
A Previous EngagementA Previous Engagement · 2009
A Previous Engagement
★ 4.32009
MovieRomanceComedy
When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a date made twenty-five years earlier with her first love.

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The VillageThe Village · 2013
The Village
★ 7.32013
SeriesDrama
The Village is a BBC television drama created and written by Peter Moffat. Consisting of two six-episode series—the project intended as a 42-hour televised epic—the first series covers 1914 to 1920; the second continued the story into the 1920s. However, it was not commissioned for a third series. An epic drama charting the turbulent times experienced by one English village throughout the 20th century; births, deaths, political events and rebellions are among the events that occur during the time. Bert Middleton lives across the entire 100-year period, and his story from boyhood to old age forms the crux of the story, seen via flashbacks as Bert is interviewed in the present day by a documentarian working on a project about the second eldest man in the United Kingdom and his village.

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