Derek Riddell

Derek Riddell

Birthday: 1967-01-11

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland

Biography: 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 actress Hope Ross and former St Mirren and Berwick Rangers footballer Ian Riddell. He graduated from the University of Strathclyde with a degree in business, before training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 1990.

Movies

A Previous Engagement
A Previous Engagement

When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a dat...

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Forgiven
Forgiven

Suburban housewife Liz discovers that husband Stephen is abusing their daughter. She confronts him a...

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The Project
The Project

The Project follows the lives of a group of young Labour party activists from their final days of un...

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Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing

Tensions mount in the TV studio when a take-charge anchor is reunited with a man she has a "history"...

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Micro Men
Micro Men

In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home in...

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Bad Sugar
Bad Sugar

A dysfunctional, wealthy mining dynasty, with an ailing patriarch and some greedy siblings. A peculi...

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National Theatre Live: Till The Stars Come Down
National Theatre Live: Till The Stars Come Down

It’s Sylvia and Marek’s wedding and you are all invited. Over the course of a hot summer’s day, a f...

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevatin...

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Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley

The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation o...

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The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father,...

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Tumshie McFadgen's Bid for Ultimate Bliss
Tumshie McFadgen's Bid for Ultimate Bliss

Tumshie McFadgen is a sensualist, his trouble starts when he comes up with the notion of cross-pleas...

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Meat the Campbells
Meat the Campbells

When Mark hears the urban myth about the dietary habits of the new kid in school, the last thing he ...

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The Christmas Quest
The Christmas Quest

An archaeologist, her ex-husband who is a Norse language expert, search for legendary treasure in Ic...

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