Richard Cordery

Acting

Born July 19, 1950

Richard Cordery is an actor. Cordery's television credits include Rumpole of the Bailey, as a prosecution Barrister (Series 5 Episode 6 - 1988), Doc Martin as Dennis Dodds, Whitechapel as George Collier, Garrow's Law as Sir Sampson Wright. He appeared in Midsomer Murders “The Straw Woman” as Dr John Cole in 2004,[2] as Morris Bingham in “The-Made-to Measure Murders” in 2010, and as Atticus Bradley in “The Killings of Copenhagen“ (2014, S16:E5). He played the Duc De Raguse in the 2012 film Les Misérables. In the 2013 film About Time, Cordery played Uncle Desmond, the "sweet but mentally-challenged" uncle of the protagonist Tim. In the fifth season of The Crown, Cordery portrayed Marmaduke Hussey, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC from 1986 to 1996.