Derek Riddell

Derek Riddell

Born: January 11, 1967
in Glasgow, Scotland

Movies for Derek Riddell...

Title: Bodies
Character: Chief Inspector Calloway
Released: October 19, 2023
Type: TV
One victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must solve the mystery to protect Britain's future.
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Title: Payback
Character: DCI Adam Guthrie
Released: October 4, 2023
Type: TV
Lexie Noble lives a great life on the outskirts of Edinburgh… until her husband is murdered. As she struggles to make sense of what happened, she learns he had been laundering money for notorious crime boss Cal Morris. As a partner in her late husband's accountancy firm, both Morris and the police will be interested in controlling her next moves.
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Title: Crime
Character: Richie Gulliver
Released: November 18, 2021
Type: TV
Detective Inspector Ray Lennox investigates the disappearance of a schoolgirl while battling cocaine addiction and a mental breakdown.
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Title: A Confession
Character: Pete
Released: September 2, 2019
Type: TV
The story of how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher deliberately breached police procedure and protocol to catch a killer, a decision that ultimately cost him his career and reputation.
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Title: Gentleman Jack
Character: Captain Sutherland
Released: April 22, 2019
Type: TV
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Title: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Character: Torquil Travers
Released: November 14, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Hard Sun
Character: DCS Roland Bell
Released: January 6, 2018
Type: TV
Two detectives with opposing viewpoints are partnered together five years before the Apocalypse.
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Title: Gunpowder
Character: King James I
Released: October 21, 2017
Type: TV
London, 1605. Robert Catesby, a 33-year old Warwickshire gentleman, devises a plot to blow up Parliament and kill the King.
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Mary Shelley
Title: Mary Shelley
Character: William Baxter
Released: August 6, 2017
Type: Movie
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
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Title: Undercover
Character: Paul Brightman
Released: April 3, 2016
Type: TV
Undercover follows Maya, the first black Director Of Public Prosecutions. Just as she is about to take up the post and her life comes under intense public scrutiny, she learns that that her husband Nick has been lying to her for years. Twenty years ago Nick was a fearless and dedicated undercover officer, infiltrating organisations considered a danger to society because of their political beliefs. Nick built himself a fake past and now with his wife unsuspecting and his conscience killing him – his secret identity may compromise the new Director of Public Prosecutions.
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Title: Happy Valley
Character: Richard Cawood
Released: April 29, 2014
Type: TV
Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.
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Title: W1A
Character: Clive Cook
Released: March 19, 2014
Type: TV
The follow-up to 'Twenty Twelve' as Ian Fletcher takes up the position of 'Head of Values' at the BBC. His task is to clarify, define, or re-define the core purpose of the BBC across all its functions and to position it confidently for the future, in particular for Licence Fee Renegotiation and Charter Renewal in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
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Title: Frankie
Character: Andy Peat
Released: May 14, 2013
Type: TV
Frankie is a British television drama series created by Lucy Gannon. The series stars Eve Myles as the eponymous character Frankie Maddox, a district nurse more emotionally involved with her job than her personal life. The series is both set and filmed in the English city of Bristol.
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Title: The Village
Released: March 31, 2013
Type: TV
The Village tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton.
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Title: Ripper Street
Character: Constantine
Released: December 30, 2012
Type: TV
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.
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Bad Sugar
Title: Bad Sugar
Character: Father Rodrigo
Released: August 26, 2012
Type: Movie
A dysfunctional, wealthy mining dynasty, with an ailing patriarch and some greedy siblings. A peculiarly British take on telenovela style melodramas, played for laughs.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Patrick Knight
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Title: The Field of Blood
Character: DS Patterson
Released: May 8, 2011
Type: TV
Adaptation of Denise Mina's thriller set in 1982. When the story of a murder has huge implications for her family, newspaper copy boy Paddy Meehan battles prejudices to get to the truth. As she inches closer to revealing the truth, her investigations place her in mortal danger.
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Title: Garrow's Law
Character: Matthew Bambridge
Released: November 1, 2009
Type: TV
The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.
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A Previous Engagement
Title: A Previous Engagement
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: October 22, 2009
Type: Movie
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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Micro Men
Title: Micro Men
Character: Nigel Searle
Released: October 8, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Law & Order: UK
Released: February 23, 2009
Type: TV
Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.
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Title: Trust Me
Character: Dan
Released: January 26, 2009
Type: TV
The series revolves around Rothman, Greene, and Moore, a fictional advertising firm. The storylines center on the difficulties of securing accounts and the characters' personal lives.
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Title: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Character: Lachlan Weaver
Released: January 13, 2008
Type: TV
The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor trying to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.
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The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
Title: The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
Character: Parson
Released: October 6, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Forgiven
Title: Forgiven
Character: Stephen
Released: August 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Suburban housewife Liz discovers that husband Stephen is abusing their daughter. She confronts him and reports him to the authorities, but also decides to try to help him recover from what must be "a sickness". Stephen is tried and imprisoned. When he leaves prison, Liz arranges for him to receive treatment at a residential clinic for sex offenders, where he undergoes intensive therapy. Stephen finally faces his guilt and the consequences of his abuse. The family decide to rebuild their lives together. Is this right? Is it even possible? And – if they do - what's the emotional cost?
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Title: State of Mind
Character: James LeCroix, PhD
Released: July 15, 2007
Type: TV
A look at the private and professional lives of therapists -- and whether or not these professionals are typically crazier than their patients.
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Title: Five Days
Character: Nick Durden
Released: January 23, 2007
Type: TV
Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
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Title: Ugly Betty
Character: Stuart
Released: September 28, 2006
Type: TV
Betty Suarez is smart, tough and tenacious, but also sensitive and loving. She hopes these skills will help her to get a job within the Meade Publishing Corporation. The fact that she isn’t traditionally attractive initially keeps her from getting hired by fashion bible, Mode. The magazine, however, is in flux, with power-hungry executives vying for dominance. Hoping to control the situation, the publisher gives his inexperienced son, Daniel, the position of Editor-in-Chief. He hires Betty as Daniel’s assistant after catching him in a compromising position with his secretary on his first day on the job. After a tough start, in which Daniel tries to force Betty into quitting by treating her terribly, he realizes her worth and the two pair up to be an effective team.
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Title: The Virgin Queen
Character: Sir Walter Raleigh
Released: January 22, 2006
Type: TV
The Virgin Queen explores the full sweep of Elizabeth's life: from her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister's terror; through her great love affair with Robert Dudley; into her years of triumph over the Armada; and finally her old age and her last, enigmatic relationship with her young protégé, the Earl of Essex.
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Title: ShakespeaRe-Told
Character: Don
Released: November 7, 2005
Type: TV
Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Character: Don
Released: November 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Tensions mount in the TV studio when a take-charge anchor is reunited with a man she has a "history" with.
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Meat the Campbells
Title: Meat the Campbells
Character: Mr. Campbell
Released: October 1, 2005
Type: Movie
When Mark hears the urban myth about the dietary habits of the new kid in school, the last thing he wants is to be invited round to dinner. His worst fears are realised when he has to endure a three-course meal at the Campbell family residence.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Sir Robert
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Tumshie McFadgen's Bid for Ultimate Bliss
Title: Tumshie McFadgen's Bid for Ultimate Bliss
Character: Tumshie McFadgen
Released: August 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Tumshie McFadgen is a sensualist, his trouble starts when he comes up with the notion of cross-pleasuring. what would it be like to experience the maximum whoopee in all five senses at the same time? well I can tell you, it was a bloody disaster all round.
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Title: No Angels
Released: March 2, 2004
Type: TV
No Angels is a critically acclaimed British television comedy drama series, produced by the independent production company World Productions for Channel 4, which ran for three series from 2004 to 2006. It was devised by Toby Whithouse.
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The Project
Title: The Project
Character: Richard Loach
Released: November 10, 2002
Type: Movie
The Project follows the lives of a group of young Labour party activists from their final days of university to Westminster's corridors of power. Their journey takes us deep into the world of New Labour headquarters in Millbank, and later Downing Street, exposing the machinations behind the party's transformation into the sharp, media-aware voice of professional, middle-England.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Steven
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
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 series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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Title: The Book Group
Released: April 12, 2002
Type: TV
Clare, a neurotic American, moves to Glasgow and starts a book group to meet new, interesting people. But Kenny, Dirka, Rab, Fist and Janice are more interesting than she bargained for...
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Title: Urban Gothic
Released: May 17, 2000
Type: TV
Urban Gothic was a horror based series of short stories shown on Channel 5 running for two series between May 2000 and December 2001. Filmed on a low budget and broadcast in a later time-slot, it nonetheless acquired a following. It has also since been repeated on the Horror Channel. Set around London there is an underlying story thread that only becomes clear in the last episodes of each series. Each episode was different in style from the others, running the gamut of documentary-style independent film to spoof, to slick dramas similar in style to The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone.
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Title: Clocking Off
Character: Jamie Campbell
Released: January 23, 2000
Type: TV
How much do you know about the person working next to you? From the outside, life at Mackintosh Textiles appears to run smoothly, but in a community with so many secrets to hide, things are far from straightforward. In six powerful, self-contained dramas, everyday life is fractured by tumultuous marriages, snatched passions, disappearing husbands and gang harassment.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Des McCordell
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
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 the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Strathblair
Character: Alec Ritchie
Released: May 3, 1992
Type: TV
Black Watch Sergeant Alec Ritchie and his new wife Jennifer move to a rundown sheep farm in the Scottish countryside.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Jeff Marriot
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Taggart
Released: September 6, 1983
Type: TV
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme.The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers.