Derek Riddell
Date of birth: 1967-01-11
Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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.
Movie Credits
A Previous Engagement
2009-10-22
When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a dat
Forgiven
2007-08-15
Suburban housewife Liz discovers that husband Stephen is abusing their daughter. She confronts him a
The Project
2002-11-10
The Project follows the lives of a group of young Labour party activists from their final days of un
Much Ado About Nothing
2005-11-07
Tensions mount in the TV studio when a take-charge anchor is reunited with a man she has a "history"
Micro Men
2009-10-08
In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home in
Bad Sugar
2012-08-26
A dysfunctional, wealthy mining dynasty, with an ailing patriarch and some greedy siblings. A peculi
National Theatre Live: Till The Stars Come Down
2024-06-11
It’s Sylvia and Marek’s wedding and you are all invited. Over the course of a hot summer’s day, a f
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2018-11-14
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevatin
Mary Shelley
2017-08-06
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation o
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
2007-10-06
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father,
Tumshie McFadgen's Bid for Ultimate Bliss
2004-08-24
Tumshie McFadgen is a sensualist, his trouble starts when he comes up with the notion of cross-pleas
Meat the Campbells
2005-10-01
When Mark hears the urban myth about the dietary habits of the new kid in school, the last thing he
The Christmas Quest
2024-12-01
An archaeologist, her ex-husband who is a Norse language expert, search for legendary treasure in Ic