Richard Durden

AKA: Mark Richard Durden-Smith, Richard Durden-Smith, Dick Durden-Smith

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1944-02-08

Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK

Biography

Mark Richard Durden-Smith (born 8 February 1944), known as Richard Durden, is an English actor, with a range of television, film and stage credits.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {85}

Ambassador Bennington

2010-02-04 6.35

From Paris with Love

James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig—working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

Olympius

2009-05-17 7

Agora

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his f ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama, History

Daniel

1987-04-17 0

Hedgehog Wedding

Mr and Mrs Desmond Howard Jones invite you to the wedding of their daughter Mariella to Dominic Frazer. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Black

1993-09-16 6.054

The Innocent

A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man’s best friend, he falls in love with a mysterious woma ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Minister of Justice

2001-10-13 5.083

Superstition

19 year old babysitter aupair Julie is accused of murder when the bed of the sheltered baby inflames. Is seems as if Julie possesses rare telepathic skills, that she cannot control. Her young lawyer f ...

Genre :Horror, Thriller

Alexander Cathcart

2011-08-17 6.383

The Awakening

In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school. ...

Genre :Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Ephesus Townsperson

1978-10-17 8.8

The Comedy of Errors

The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together by circumstance. ...

Genre :

Reverend Cooper

2014-09-14 6.8

The Ties That Bind

A divorce case involving a landowner and his young wife spirals into something darker, drawing Mr. Whicher into the heart of the English countryside where he uncovers the most disturbing and destructi ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery, TV Movie

Man Ray

1988-11-28 3.333

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it a ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama, War

BKA Interrogator

1990-11-26 6.5

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Sykes-Herring

1995-09-09 5.143

The Grotesque

Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo brings home her betrothed, Sidney, who aspires to ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Barão de Rosthschild

1999-10-15 7.6

Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei

A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867 had $155.000 contos de reis, meanwhile the Brazilian ...

Genre :History, Drama

Roger

1981-07-08 0

The Day of the Janitor

Comedy about a maintenance supervisor in an office block whose idea of the company he works for is changed when he has to fix a leak in an executive's office. ...

Genre :

Rev. David Bancroft

1991-04-10 0

Sleepers

Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Thriller

Khomich

1973-09-16 5.6

The Love-Girl and the Innocent

A BBC television adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel. The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is havin ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Dr. Austen Parker

2003-12-15 0

Hear the Silence

The four-year-old Nicolas Shield leads a brash and peaceful life. An annual unpleasant day has arrived: he has to visit the doctor to get an injection against mumps, measles and rubella. This goes wit ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Samuel Parr

2022-12-02 6.333

Late Shift

Matt, a smart student, has to prove his innocence after being forced to take part in a bold heist at a famous London auction house. The consequences take him on a journey across London to escape the t ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller, Adventure

Julian Braden

1988-02-22 7

Maigret

Jules Maigret, a meticulous Parisian police detective, is a famous literary character. In this film adaptation of his stories, he's trying to solve a murder of a friend, a P.I. who was looking into an ...

Genre :Mystery, TV Movie

Proctor

2004-12-30 5.3

Not Only But Always

The story of the working and personal relationship between the comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, a hugely popular duo in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing primarily on Cook, the film t ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Archbishop

2011-10-21 6.4

Anonymous

Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakes ...

Genre :Drama, History, Thriller

Jan Smuts

2017-05-25 6.183

Churchill

A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Harvey Miller

2009-09-09 5.5

The Last Days of Lehman Brothers

The heads of Wall Street's biggest investment banks were summoned to an evening meeting by the US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, to discuss the plight of another - Lehman Brothers. After six months ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Jaques

1991-08-10 4

A Woman at War

Helene Moskiewicz, a young Jewish woman living in pre-World War II Belgium, is forced to suffer through German occupation by watching her parents arrested and her life destroyed. To fight back, Regine ...

Genre :Thriller, Drama, War

TV Director

1989-06-21 7.235

Batman

Having witnessed his parents' brutal murder as a child, millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne fights crime in Gotham City disguised as Batman, a costumed hero who strikes fear into the hearts of vill ...

Genre :Fantasy, Action, Crime

Dr. Hale

2005-03-04 6.869

The Jacket

A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves. ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy

Evil Angel/Knight

1967-10-10 5.212

Doctor Faustus

Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama, Horror

Board Member

2005-09-23 6.742

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Family

Father Jimmy

2012-12-20 6.1

Papadopoulos & Sons

Following his ruin in the latest banking crisis, a self-made millionaire reluctantly re-unites with his estranged freewheeling brother to re-open the abandoned fish and chip shop they shared in their ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Vicar

2005-07-09 5.285

The Best Man

When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when Olly's college pal James asks him t ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Konstantin

1997-07-26 4.8

Danielle Steel's Zoya

A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Stephen's Father

2018-07-05 5.763

The Child in Time

A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself ov ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Town Justice

2004-02-26 6.36

The Reckoning

In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Second Officer

1970-11-08 6

Scars of Dracula

The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected. And two innocent victims search ...

Genre :Horror

Jeremy's Father

2018-08-16 6

Man of the Hour

Gemma receives a mysterious invitation to the birthday party of an enigmatic millionaire, Jeremy. She must pass herself off as Jeremy's old friend and mingle with his glittering guests. But Gemma cann ...

Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Office Manager

2007-02-28 0

Confessions of a Diary Secretary

Funny film concerning John Prescott's affair with Tracey Temple ...

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Bill Cash

2019-01-19 6.589

Brexit: The Uncivil War

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day. ...

Genre :History, TV Movie, Drama

Old Man Hatfield

2007-02-05 5.586

Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud

During a bitter family feud, Jodie Hatfield, and her boyfriend Ricky McCoy, decide to leave town to avoid being found out, but are soon caught in the act. Wanting vengeance, he seeks out the monster P ...

Genre :Horror, Fantasy, TV Movie

Ambassador Taylor

2002-02-27 6.954

Amen.

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest ...

Genre :Drama, History

First Order Officer

2019-12-18 6.28

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins. ...

Genre :Adventure, Action, Science Fiction

Carl

2010-04-08 4.819

The Heavy

Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister, the other a henchman for a successful, yet shady businessman. Presented with an opportunity to take ...

Genre :Thriller, Action, Adventure

Smith

1996-03-20 6.6

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his a ...

Genre :Adventure, History, Romance

Guy Wheldon

1981-10-20 7

Country

In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the bu ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Sir Norman Jeffcoate

2024-11-15 6.8

Joy

A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, Louise J ...

Genre :Drama

Barney

2025-11-25 0

The Secret Santa Project

A group of discouraged office workers band together to undergo a festive experiment. ...

Genre :Comedy

Dent

1995-04-01 6.8

Bugs

Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist ind ...

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

2004-10-17 6.271

Hex

The show opens with a girl who yearns to be popular and liked in her school. She wishes she was in the "in-crowd", however, she goes about unnoticed in school everyday. The only girl who truly notices ...

Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Anton Novak

1998-09-26 5.5

Highlander: The Raven

Highlander: The Raven was a short-lived spin-off from the television series Highlander, continuing the saga of a female Immortal. The series followed the character of Amanda, an Immortal who had a rec ...

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

Dr. Pritchard

1989-01-08 8.17

Agatha Christie's Poirot

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first clas ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Pebmarsh

1989-01-08 8.17

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Henry

2023-02-12 7.362

The Gold

On 26 November 1983, six armed men break into the Brink's-Mat security depot, stumbling across gold bullion worth £26m. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Charles

2019-04-15 7.86

Ghosts

A cash-strapped young couple inherits a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants. ...

Genre :Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Commissaire Dupont

1986-01-10 7.343

Lovejoy

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers f ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Doctor

2023-06-21 7.143

The Change

Linda finds a new lease on life when she learns that she's experiencing menopause. So she heads to the forest on a journey of self-discovery. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Sir Athelstane Jervis

2006-10-03 6.2

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

Supermarket manager Ros Pritchard decides to stand for election and her steady gains of support gives rise to thoughts of becoming Prime Minister. ...

Genre :Drama

Dr. Sturgess

2011-10-06 6.175

Hidden

When lawyer Gina Hawkes hires Harry to find a witness, he unexpectedly revisits his brother's decades-old death, embroiling him in a political conspiracy at the highest levels of British government. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

George Morgan

1993-05-10 6.1

Peak Practice

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 ...

Genre :Drama

BBC Official

1993-11-21 7.842

To Play the King

Francis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, War & Politics

Anthony Sherman

1971-10-08 6

Justice

Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barr ...

Genre :Drama

John Crudaal

1991-09-03 7.184

2Point4 Children

They're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens. Plus just a few crazy ideas, escapades and mishaps. The classic 90s sitcom. ...

Genre :Comedy

Mr. Prestcott

2004-12-12 7.741

Agatha Christie's Marple

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumble ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Grand Wizard Egbert Hellibore

1998-10-22 7.485

The Worst Witch

Mildred Hubble is a young witch attending Cackles Academy. She's called the "Worst Witch" because she's always caught getting into trouble. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Dr. Jarvis

1979-10-29 6.8

Minder

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Charles Worthing

2019-04-15 7.86

Ghosts

A cash-strapped young couple inherits a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants. ...

Genre :Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Mr. Hawtrey

2005-03-27 7.2

Fingersmith

A young woman is hired as a maid to an heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering uncle. But, the maid has a secret: she is a pickpocket recruited by a swindl ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime

Conor Hodgson

1996-02-21 7.51

Silent Witness

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Sir Henry

2012-09-04 6.809

World Without End

Two hundred years after the construction of the great cathedral, the medieval town of Kingsbridge is taken under siege by Queen Isabella. Caris, a visionary young woman, inspires her people to stand ...

Genre :Drama

Lord Justice Lawrence

2006-09-25 6

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, is a BBC documentary film series consisting of three one-hour films that re-enact the Nuremberg War Trials of Albert Speer, Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess. They were broadca ...

Genre :Documentary, Drama

Oscar Matteson

2019-04-15 7.4

Back to Life

When Miri Matteson returns home after eighteen years, can she integrate back into her old life? With a terrible event from her past hanging over her, it won’t be easy. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Dr. John Foster

1997-10-19 6.8

Trial & Retribution

Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television se ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

John Gracey

2007-02-18 7.6

Lewis

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Irvin Perrot

2002-05-13 7.7

Spooks

Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the ...

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Archibald Lovat

1991-08-31 6.4

The House of Eliott

Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s. ...

Genre :Drama

Duncan Goff

1997-03-23 7.485

Midsomer Murders

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dr Anselm

2015-03-08 7.8

Poldark

Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to ...

Genre :Drama

Mr. Boggle

2016-06-07 6.115

Agatha Raisin

Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder in ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Lord Greer

2020-12-25 8.077

Bridgerton

Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family. ...

Genre :Drama

Solicitor

2019-04-15 7.86

Ghosts

A cash-strapped young couple inherits a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants. ...

Genre :Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Arthur Salem

2022-03-11 6.4

Sister Boniface Mysteries

First there was Father Brown. Now, say hello to Sister Boniface. This clever, moped-riding nun is the police's secret weapon for solving murders in this divine Father Brown spin-off. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Bishop Fisher

2015-01-21 7.538

Wolf Hall

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry A ...

Genre :Drama

Lord Liverpool

2015-05-17 7.374

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

With magic long since lost to England, two men are destined to bring it back; the reclusive Mr. Norrell and daring novice Jonathan Strange. So begins a dangerous battle between two great minds. ...

Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Lord Liverpool (uncredited)

2015-05-17 7.374

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

With magic long since lost to England, two men are destined to bring it back; the reclusive Mr. Norrell and daring novice Jonathan Strange. So begins a dangerous battle between two great minds. ...

Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Letwin

2002-10-27 7.9

Foyle's War

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later ser ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama, War & Politics, Crime

Khomich

1965-10-19 5

BBC Play of the Month

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stag ...

Genre :Drama

Lord Dodds

2017-03-27 7.358

Harlots

Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century. ...

Genre :Drama

Havergill

1988-02-21 7

Noble House

Despite its impressive history and reputation, the international trading company Struan's is in trouble. Overextended by the previous management, new tai-pan Ian Dunross has had to issue public stock ...