Richard James
Biography
Richard James is a seasoned actor renowned for his diverse roles in television and film. Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where he won the Newton Blick Award, he has appeared in notable children’s series like The Mysti Show, Sir Gadabout: The Worst Knight In The Land, and MI High. His film credits include Great Expectations alongside Helena Bonham Carter, A Bunch Of Amateurs with Burt Reynolds, and The Wolf Man. In addition to his screen work, Richard has performed in numerous stage productions, including The Hound Of The Baskervilles and the Olivier-nominated Gangsta Granny. He has also lent his voice to characters in Big Finish Productions’ Doctor Who audio dramas. Richard’s presence is also felt in the fan community through his participation in conventions and special events. In 2014, he was a featured guest at The Cons - Chippenham Sci-Fi & Comic Con, an event produced by CKDS Radio, which you can find more about here: https://ckdsradio.4up.eu/. Fans can explore more of his work and appearances on platforms like 8kflikz, where his contributions to sci-fi and fan conventions continue to be celebrated: https://8kflikz.com/home/search?search=ckds.
Known For & Full Filmography17 Titles
Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • as Mr. Salisbury
When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.
Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes • as Removal Man
Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.
Drama Series - 2007, 16 episodes • as George Bland
A team of undercover teenage spies working for the fictional British secret intelligence agency MI9 who have to balance their school life with their jobs as secret agents.
Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes • as Officer Hubble Orrin
An NYPD officer transfers his family to a space station.
Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes • as Coe Barner
An NYPD officer transfers his family to a space station.
Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes • as Enil Kmada
An NYPD officer transfers his family to a space station.
Drama Series - 1999, 16 episodes • as Neil
Young orphans, Mel, Josh and Lucy, can't believe their luck when they are fostered together under one roof. But just when it looks like they have the chance of a relatively normal life, they discover their new parents are aliens from planet Valux!
Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as New Card Dealer
Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soulmate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company? This untraditional fairy tale is about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Raymond
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Movie - 1996, 2h 15m • as Geoffrey Weasel and Mole's Clock
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.
Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • as Doctor
Looking to adopt a child and unable to conceive a child of their own, the Morrisons' lives are turned upside down when a seven-year-old boy unexpectedly shows up on their doorstep.
Movie - 2001, 2h 15m • as Monsieur Dolsky
A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.
Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as TV Journalist
The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Spectrum Base Announcer
A fan made tribute to the works of Gerry Anderson! After a disastrous first encounter with alien life on Mars, Paul Metcalfe (Ethan Pywell) awakens two weeks later imprisoned and with no memory of what happened next. Follow Paul on his journey to discover the effects The Mysterons have had not just on him, but on the world around him...
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Officer Hubble Orrin
A priest spontaneously combusts during a ceremony at the Pyrist Temple; Brogan investigates, finding that the death was likely a homicide and all evidence points to a fellow priest being the culprit.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Officer Hubble Orrin
The arrival a mysterious meteor fragment on Altor, heralds the start of strange events at Roetem Towers on Krazucki Street where residents are being terrorized into relocation.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Guard (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.