Richard Durden

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.

Richard Durden
Born	Mark Richard Durden-Smith (1944-02-08) 8 February 1944 (age 81) Hendon, Middlesex, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1967–present
Spouses	Maria Aitken ​ ​ (m. 1968; div. 1971)​ Jane How ​ (m. 1996)​

Personal life

Durden-Smith was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Merton College, Oxford in 1963.^[1]

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

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
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

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[2]

On radio, he played Bashwood in Armadale.