Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 2, 1950
Place of Birth:
Stockholm, Sweden
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Allan Corduner
Biography
Allan Corduner (born April 2, 1950) is an English actor born in Stockholm to a German mother and a Russo-Finnish father. He grew up in a secular Jewish home in London. After earning a BA (Hons) in English and Drama at Bristol University he trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has worked extensively on stage, TV, and film, both in the UK and in the United States. His voice is familiar from many BBC radio plays, audio books and TV documentaries.
Corduner made his feature film debut in Yentl, with Barbra Streisand. Of his 44 films he is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Sir Arthur Sullivan in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy. He is married to Juha Leppäjärvi, a yoga instructor.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Christmas Karma | |
| 2024 | Family | |
| 2024 | National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue | Hume Cronyn |
| 2022 | TÁR | Sebastian Brix |
| 2022 | The Offering | Saul |
| 2022 | A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus | The Deacon |
| 2022 | Mosquito | Ozwald Godfrey |
| 2019 | The Man Who Saw Too Much | Boris Pahor (voice) |
| 2018 | Disobedience | Moshe Hartog |
| 2017 | The Book of Gabrielle | Saul |
| 2016 | Florence Foster Jenkins | John Totten |
| 2015 | Woman in Gold | Gustav Bloch-Bauer |
| 2014 | Closer to the Moon | Flaviu |
| 2012 | An Enemy to Die For | Martin Winter |
| 2012 | The Sweeney | Doctor |
| 2012 | We'll Take Manhattan | Alex Liberman |
| 2012 | A Thousand Kisses Deep | Buddy |
| 2010 | Burke & Hare | Nicephore |
| 2010 | Lennon Naked | Art Janov |
| 2009 | Mr. Nobody | Dr. Feldheim |
| 2008 | Defiance | Shimon Haretz |
| 2007 | The Last Days of the Raj | Lord Ismay |
| 2007 | Fred Claus | Dr. Goldfarb |
| 2005 | The White Countess | Samuel Feinstein |
| 2005 | Friends & Crocodiles | Marcus |
| 2005 | The Owls and the Orchard | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Greenhough Smith |
| 2005 | Bigger Than the Sky | Kippy Newberg |
| 2004 | De-Lovely | Monty Woolley |
| 2004 | The Merchant of Venice | Tubal |
| 2004 | Vera Drake | Psychiatrist |
| 2004 | Christine | Maurice Leyman |
| 2002 | Food of Love | Joseph Mansourian |
| 2002 | The King's Beard | (voice) |
| 2002 | Moonlight Mile | Stan Michaels |
| 2001 | Zoe | Rupert |
| 2001 | Me Without You | Max |
| 2001 | The Grey Zone | Nyiszli |
| 2001 | The Search for John Gissing | Francois Fuller |
| 2001 | Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) | Big Bob |
| 2000 | Joe Gould's Secret | Francis McCrudden |
| 1999 | Topsy-Turvy | Sir Arthur Sullivan |
| 1998 | The Impostors | Captain |
| 1996 | Gadgetman | Professor McNeil |
| 1996 | Norma Jean & Marilyn | Billy Wilder |
| 1996 | Alive and Kicking | Therapist |
| 1995 | Voices | Oscar Butterworth |
| 1994 | A Business Affair | Dinner Guest |
| 1994 | Nobody's Children | Ion |
| 1993 | Heart of Darkness | Verme |
| 1992 | Carry On Columbus | Sam |
| 1991 | Edward II | Poet |
| 1990 | Antonia and Jane | Stephen Carlinsky |
| 1989 | Fat Man and Little Boy | Franz Goethe |
| 1988 | Talk Radio | Vince / Morris |
| 1987 | Mandela | Benny |
| 1986 | Valhalla | Loke (voice) |
| 1985 | Bad Medicine | Dr. Diaz the Bus Driver |
| 1983 | Yentl | Shimmele |
| 1983 | The Return of the Soldier | Pianist at Party |
| 1979 | Follow the Star | |
| 1979 | Phoelix | |
| The Funeral | Rabbi Stephen | |
| The Entertainment System Is Down |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Ridley Road | Rabbi Lehrer |
| 2018 | FBI | Victor Beniov |
| 2017 | Fearless | Monty Berman |
| 2014 | Secrets of the Third Reich | Self - Narrator |
| 2014 | The Musketeers | Van Laar |
| 2013 | Utopia | Ross |
| 2013 | Spies of Warsaw | Viktor Rosen |
| 2013 | The Blacklist | Aaron |
| 2013 | Dancing on the Edge | Mr. Wax |
| 2012 | Call the Midwife | Arnold Gelin |
| 2011 | Zen | Michelangelo Gattuso |
| 2011 | Homeland | Etai Luskin |
| 2010 | Grandma's House | Richard |
| 2010 | A Passionate Woman | Mr. Solomon |
| 2008 | No Heroics | |
| 2006 | Simon Schama's Power of Art | |
| 2004 | The Lady Musketeer | Aramis |
| 2003 | The Last Detective | |
| 2002 | Foyle's War | Carlo Lucciano |
| 2002 | Daniel Deronda | |
| 2001 | The Way We Live Now | Croll |
| 2000 | Fat Friends | |
| 1997 | Nostromo | Hirsch |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Michael Hipsman |
| 1995 | The Last Machine | |
| 1995 | An Independent Man | |
| 1994 | Paris | Minotti |
| 1992 | Heartbeat | Gerard Lowe |
| 1992 | Heartbeat | Tristram Johnstone |
| 1992 | Mad About You | Osofsky |
| 1990 | Drop the Dead Donkey | Critic |
| 1987 | Inspector Morse | Gentile Bellocchio |
| 1985 | Girls On Top | Benny |
| 1984 | The Bill | |
| 1984 | Freud | Oscar Rie |
| 1981 | Roots | Melvin Solomons |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Hatchard's Bookshop Assistant |
| 1979 | Minder | Marty |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Store Assistant |