Richard Durden

{{short description|British actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Richard Durden | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Mark Richard Durden-Smith | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|02|08|df=y}} | birth_place = Hendon, Middlesex, England | death_date = | death_place = | years_active = 1967–present | occupation = Actor | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Maria Aitken|1968|1971|reason=divorce}} * {{marriage|Jane How|1996}} }} }}

'''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.

==Personal life== Durden-Smith was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Merton College, Oxford in 1963.<ref name="MCreg">{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900-1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=548}}</ref>

Durden-Smith and Maria Aitken were married in 1968 and divorced in 1971. In 1996 he married actress Jane How. His older brother was Jo Durden-Smith.

==Filmography==

===Film=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1967|| ''Doctor Faustus'' || Evil Angel / Knight || |- |1970|| ''Scars of Dracula'' || Second Officer || |- |1989|| ''Batman'' || TV Director || |- |1993|| ''The Innocent'' || Black || |- |1995|| ''The Grotesque'' || Sykes-Herring || |- |1996|| ''Beaumarchais'' || Smith || |- |1998|| ''The First 9½ Weeks'' || Laurence Garner || Direct-to-video film |- |1999|| ''Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei'' || Barão de Rosthschild || |- |2001|| ''Superstition'' || Minister of Justice || |- |2002|| ''Amen.'' || Ambassador Taylor || |- |2002|| ''The Reckoning'' || Town Justice || |- |2005|| ''The Jacket'' || Dr. Hale || |- |2005|| ''Oliver Twist'' || Unkind Board Member || |- |2005|| ''The Best Man'' || Reverend || |- |2009|| ''Agora'' || Olympius || |- |2009|| ''The Heavy'' || Carl || |- |2009|| ''21 and a Wake-Up'' || 24th Evac Staff and Patients || |- |2010|| ''From Paris With Love'' || Ambassador Thomas Bennington || |- |2011|| ''Anonymous'' || Archbishop || |- |2011|| ''The Awakening'' || Alexander Cathcart || |- |2012|| ''Papadopoulos & Sons'' || Father Jimmy || |- |2015|| ''Je suis daddy'' || Nigel Lawson|| |- |2016|| ''Late Shift'' || Samuel Parr || |- |2017|| ''Churchill'' || Jan Smuts || |- |2018|| ''Havergill'' || || |- |2018|| ''Postcards from London'' || Max || |- |2019|| ''Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'' || First Order Officer #6 || |}

===Television=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1987|| ''Inspector Morse'' || Alan Richards || 1 episode |- |1988|| ''Piece of Cake'' || Medical Officer || 1 episode |- |1988|| ''Noble House'' || Havergill || 4 episodes |- |1989|| ''The Man Who Lived at the Ritz'' || Man Ray || TV movie |- |1993|| ''Agatha Christie's Poirot; The Case of the Missing Will'' || Dr Pritchard || 1 episode |- |1997|| ''Dressing for Breakfast'' || Graham || 3 episodes |- |1999|| ''The Worst Witch'' || The Chief Wizard, Egbert Hellibore || 3 episodes |- |1999|| ''Highlander'' || Anton Novak || 1 episode |- |2003|| ''Midsomer Murders'' || Duncan Goff || 1 episode |- |2004|| ''Dunkirk'' || Lord Halifax || TV movie, Documentary |- |2004|| ''Agatha Christie's Marple'' || Mr. Prestcott || 1 episode |- |2006|| ''Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial'' || Lord Justice Lawrence || 3 episodes, Documentary |- |2007|| ''Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud'' || Old Man Hatfield || TV movie |- |2009|| ''The Last Days of Lehman Brothers'' || Harvey Miller || TV movie |- |2014|| ''Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death'' || Mr. Boggle || TV movie / Pilot episode |- |2015|| ''Wolf Hall'' || Bishop Fisher || 1 episode |- |2016|| ''Agatha Raisin'' || Mr. Boggle || 3 episodes |- |2019–|| ''Back to Life'' || Oscar || Series 1 and 2 |- |2019|| ''Brexit: The Uncivil War''|| Bill Cash || TV movie |- |2019–23|| ''Ghosts'' || Charles Worthing || 4 episodes |- |2021|| ''Silent Witness'' || Conor || 1 episode<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC One - Silent Witness, Series 24, Brother's Keeper, Part 1 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00104hy |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 September 2021}}</ref> |- |2026–present|| ''Harry Potter'' || Professor Cuthberth Binns || <ref name="WarwickDavis">{{Cite web |last1=Cordero |first1=Rost |date=1 September 2025 |title=HBO 'Harry Potter' Series: Warwick Davis Returns As Prof. Flitwick; Additional Castings Set |url=https://deadline.com/2025/09/harry-potter-series-warwick-davis-professor-filius-flitwick-1236502767/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250901104340/https://deadline.com/2025/09/harry-potter-series-warwick-davis-professor-filius-flitwick-1236502767/ |archive-date=1 September 2025 |access-date=1 September 2025 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}</ref> |}

On radio, he played Bashwood in ''Armadale''.

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0243983|name=Richard Durden}}

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