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Gender

Male

Birthday

1950-04-02 (75 years old)

Place of Birth

Stockholm, Sweden

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

Acting

2025

2024

2022

TÁR as Sebastian Brix
The Offering as Saul
Mosquito as Ozwald Godfrey

2021

Ridley Road as Rabbi Lehrer

2019

The Man Who Saw Too Much as Boris Pahor (voice)

2018

Disobedience as Moshe Hartog
FBI as Victor Beniov

2017

Fearless as Monty Berman

2016

2015

Woman in Gold as Gustav Bloch-Bauer

2014

Secrets of the Third Reich as Self - Narrator
The Musketeers as Van Laar

2013

Utopia as Ross
Spies of Warsaw as Viktor Rosen
The Blacklist as Aaron

2012

An Enemy to Die For as Martin Winter
The Sweeney as Doctor
We'll Take Manhattan as Alex Liberman
Call the Midwife as Arnold Gelin

2011

Zen as Michelangelo Gattuso
Homeland as Etai Luskin

2010

Burke & Hare as Nicephore
Lennon Naked as Art Janov
Grandma's House as Richard
A Passionate Woman as Mr. Solomon

2009

Mr. Nobody as Dr. Feldheim

2008

Defiance as Shimon Haretz

2007

Fred Claus as Dr. Goldfarb

2006

2005

The White Countess as Samuel Feinstein
The Owls and the Orchard as Self - Narrator (voice)
Bigger Than the Sky as Kippy Newberg

2004

De-Lovely as Monty Woolley
Vera Drake as Psychiatrist
Christine as Maurice Leyman

2003

2002

Food of Love as Joseph Mansourian
The King's Beard as (voice)
Moonlight Mile as Stan Michaels

2001

Zoe as Rupert
The Grey Zone as Nyiszli
The Search for John Gissing as Francois Fuller

2000

Joe Gould's Secret as Francis McCrudden

1999

Topsy-Turvy as Sir Arthur Sullivan

1998

The Impostors as Captain

1997

Nostromo as Hirsch
Midsomer Murders as Michael Hipsman

1996

Gadgetman as Professor McNeil
Norma Jean & Marilyn as Billy Wilder
Alive and Kicking as Therapist

1995

Voices as Oscar Butterworth

1994

A Business Affair as Dinner Guest
Paris as Minotti

1993

1992

Heartbeat as Gerard Lowe
Heartbeat as Tristram Johnstone
Mad About You as Osofsky

1991

Edward II as Poet

1990

Antonia and Jane as Stephen Carlinsky

1989

Fat Man and Little Boy as Franz Goethe

1988

Talk Radio as Vince / Morris

1987

Mandela as Benny
Inspector Morse as Gentile Bellocchio

1986

Valhalla as Loke (voice)

1985

Bad Medicine as Dr. Diaz the Bus Driver
Girls On Top as Benny

1984

Freud as Oscar Rie

1983

Yentl as Shimmele
The Return of the Soldier as Pianist at Party

1981

Roots as Melvin Solomons

1979

Tales of the Unexpected as Hatchard's Bookshop Assistant
Minder as Marty
Tales of the Unexpected as Store Assistant

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The Funeral as Rabbi Stephen