Allan Corduner
Date of birth: 1950-04-02
Place of birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 알랜 코드너
Biography
Allan Corduner (born April 2, 1950) is an English actor born in Stockholm to a German mother and a Russo-Finnish father. He grew up in a secular Jewish home in London. After earning a BA (Hons) in English and Drama at Bristol University he trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has worked extensively on stage, TV, and film, both in the UK and in the United States. His voice is familiar from many BBC radio plays, audio books and TV documentaries. Corduner made his feature film debut in Yentl, with Barbra Streisand. Of his 44 films he is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Sir Arthur Sullivan in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy. He is married to Juha Leppäjärvi, a yoga instructor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allan Corduner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Zoe
2001-01-24
Three runaway girls hijack a car.
Me Without You
2001-11-01
During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pac
Food of Love
2002-02-08
Young aspiring pianist attracts attention of famous musicians. Chance encounters bring them together
TÁR
2022-09-23
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences
De-Lovely
2004-07-02
From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thom
Topsy-Turvy
1999-12-15
After their latest production, "Princess Ida", meets with less-than-stunning reception, Gilbert and
The White Countess
2005-10-30
In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristoc
Burke & Hare
2010-10-29
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable busin
The Grey Zone
2001-09-13
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" o
An Enemy to Die For
2012-03-16
Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in sear
Gadgetman
1996-01-01
When an inventor's son learns that his father has been kidnapped, he searches for a clever contrapti
The King's Beard
2002-10-02
A king whose beard is long and beloved. An aspiring barber looking for acknowledgement. A kingdom un
The Offering
2022-09-23
In the wake of a young Jewish girl’s disappearance, the son of a Hasidic funeral director returns ho
A Business Affair
1994-03-16
This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Ale
Friends & Crocodiles
2005-08-28
Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and
Norma Jean & Marilyn
1996-05-18
This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down
Defiance
2008-12-31
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland
Mandela
1987-09-20
Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize f
Mr. Nobody
2009-11-06
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mort
Joe Gould's Secret
2000-01-21
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who
Family
2024-03-08
11-year-old Johanna’s world is falling apart. She’s just moved across the country for her father Har
Talk Radio
1988-12-21
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program jus
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
2024-03-21
In 1964, Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experime
The Owls and the Orchard
2005-11-23
A devoted pair of little owls set up home in an old orchard in rural Herefordshire. From spring blos
The Funeral
Arnold Cowan is not a religious man. He does not believe in any of that nonsense. Which is a bit of
Nobody's Children
1994-03-03
An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus
2022-12-23
The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tom
The Merchant of Venice
2004-12-03
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of mo
Follow the Star
1979-12-24
Television production of a Nativity play for children which sees Gabby (the angel Gabriel) and his f
Woman in Gold
2015-03-20
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world f
Vera Drake
2004-10-22
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con
The Search for John Gissing
2001-11-01
Matthew Barnes is a young exec on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when
Christmas Karma
2025-11-14
In modern-day London, an unkind British-Indian businessman is compelled by three ghosts to reflect o
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016-05-06
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, d
The Sweeney
2012-09-11
Jack Regan, a hardened cop who doesn’t play by the rules, is confronted with a criminal from his pas
The Last Days of the Raj
2007-03-12
Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to
We'll Take Manhattan
2012-01-26
We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton an
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005-09-08
What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes?
Alive and Kicking
1996-11-08
A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with de
The Book of Gabrielle
2017-03-09
Gabrielle is writing an illustrated guide book on sex called 'How To Do It.' At a book signing she m
Closer to the Moon
2014-03-07
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convinci
Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
2001-11-07
A hit man who wants out of the business is targeted by old colleagues.
Edward II
1991-09-11
England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origi
A Thousand Kisses Deep
2012-06-15
The suicide of an old woman from her apartment building sends a nurse on a strange journey back thro
Antonia and Jane
1990-07-18
Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch no
Yentl
1983-11-18
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a bo
Mosquito
2022-05-07
A tale of sacrifice and showmanship told through rival doctors in the old west.
Bigger Than the Sky
2005-02-18
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small
Disobedience
2018-04-24
New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father.
Carry On Columbus
1992-10-02
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the Kin
Bad Medicine
1985-11-22
Jeff Marx wants to study medicine and become a physician. However, his grades are far from enough to
Fred Claus
2007-11-09
Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989-10-20
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man d
Heart of Darkness
1993-10-01
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers t
The Return of the Soldier
1983-01-06
The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized
The Man Who Saw Too Much
2019-12-01
The Man Who Saw Too Much tells the story of 106-year-old Boris Pahor, believed to be the oldest know
Voices
1995-09-15
A story about real life early 20th century British composer and music critic Philip Arnold Heseltine
Valhalla
1986-05-12
Two children in the Viking age find their way into the magical world of Norse mythology.
Moonlight Mile
2002-09-09
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what h
Lennon Naked
2010-11-21
A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.
The Impostors
1998-10-02
Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find the
Phoelix
1979-08-01
An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing nake
Christine
2004-02-13
Dangerous investigates the arson murder of a former lotto winner who is burned to death while drunk
The Entertainment System Is Down
Set on a long-haul flight where the entertainment systems fail, an eclectic group of international p
Alfie & Ed
2025-11-12
Alfie and Ed’s plans for the perfect weekend with their cowboy-crazy granddaughter go awry when she