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 i...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Christmas Karma
2025
A story of an Indian who votes for the Conservative Party and hates refugees.

National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
2024
as Hume Cronyn
In 1964, Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under Sir J...

Family
2024
11-year-old Johanna’s world is falling apart. She’s just moved across the country for her father Harry’s medical treatment, and as her father declines...

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus
2022
as The Deacon
The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.

TÁR
2022
as Sebastian Brix
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.

The Offering
2022
as Saul
In the wake of a young Jewish girl’s disappearance, the son of a Hasidic funeral director returns home with his pregnant wife in hopes of reconciling ...

Mosquito
2022
as Ozwald Godfrey
A tale of sacrifice and showmanship told through rival doctors in the old west.

The Man Who Saw Too Much
2019
as Boris Pahor (voice)
The Man Who Saw Too Much tells the story of 106-year-old Boris Pahor, believed to be the oldest known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. He was...

Disobedience
2018
as Moshe Hartog
New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish com...

The Book of Gabrielle
2017
as Saul
Gabrielle is writing an illustrated guide book on sex called 'How To Do It.' At a book signing she meets Saul, an established male writer who is strai...

Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
as John Totten
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Woman in Gold
2015
as Gustav Bloch-Bauer
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis ...

Closer to the Moon
2014
as Flaviu
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they ar...

The Sweeney
2012
as Doctor
Jack Regan, a hardened cop who doesn’t play by the rules, is confronted with a criminal from his past. With sidekick George Carter they are put on the...

A Thousand Kisses Deep
2012
as Buddy
The suicide of an old woman from her apartment building sends a nurse on a strange journey back through time to try to rectify her past mistakes.

An Enemy to Die For
2012
as Martin Winter
Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi nat...

We'll Take Manhattan
2012
as Alex Liberman
We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a wild a...

Lennon Naked
2010
as Art Janov
A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.

Burke & Hare
2010
as Nicephore
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.

Mr. Nobody
2009
as Dr. Feldheim
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

Defiance
2008
as Shimon Haretz
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet par...

Fred Claus
2007
as Dr. Goldfarb
Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes over...
The Last Days of the Raj
2007
as Lord Ismay
Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power to...

The Owls and the Orchard
2005
as Self - Narrator (voice)
A devoted pair of little owls set up home in an old orchard in rural Herefordshire. From spring blossom to autumn apples, a year in the life of the pa...

The White Countess
2005
as Samuel Feinstein
In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American ...

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005
as Greenhough Smith
What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets t...

Friends & Crocodiles
2005
as Marcus
Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and a collector of interesting people. He persuades Li...

Bigger Than the Sky
2005
as Kippy Newberg
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of ...

The Merchant of Venice
2004
as Tubal
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heir...

Vera Drake
2004
as Psychiatrist
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

De-Lovely
2004
as Monty Woolley
From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas were never less than glamorous and wildly uncon...

Christine
2004
as Maurice Leyman
Dangerous investigates the arson murder of a former lotto winner who is burned to death while drunk in a locked room.

The King's Beard
2002
as (voice)
A king whose beard is long and beloved. An aspiring barber looking for acknowledgement. A kingdom unaware of the dark secret behind their ruler's lush...

Moonlight Mile
2002
as Stan Michaels
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.

Food of Love
2002
as Joseph Mansourian
Young aspiring pianist attracts attention of famous musicians. Chance encounters bring them together but expectations must be managed by all.

Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
2001
as Big Bob
A hit man who wants out of the business is targeted by old colleagues.

Me Without You
2001
as Max
During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fie...

The Search for John Gissing
2001
as Francois Fuller
Matthew Barnes is a young exec on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger.

The Grey Zone
2001
as Nyiszli
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excr...

Zoe
2001
as Rupert
Three runaway girls hijack a car.

Joe Gould's Secret
2000
as Francis McCrudden
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Jo...

Topsy-Turvy
1999
as Sir Arthur Sullivan
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Th...

The Impostors
1998
as Captain
Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find themselves pursued by the law aboard a cruise ship.

Alive and Kicking
1996
as Therapist
A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes...

Norma Jean & Marilyn
1996
as Billy Wilder
This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to furthe...

Gadgetman
1996
as Professor McNeil
When an inventor's son learns that his father has been kidnapped, he searches for a clever contraption that can save his dad’s life.

Voices
1995
as Oscar Butterworth
A story about real life early 20th century British composer and music critic Philip Arnold Heseltine.

A Business Affair
1994
as Dinner Guest
This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when...

Nobody's Children
1994
as Ion
An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.

Heart of Darkness
1993
as Verme
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

Carry On Columbus
1992
as Sam
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...

Edward II
1991
as Poet
England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobil...

Antonia and Jane
1990
as Stephen Carlinsky
Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest f...

Fat Man and Little Boy
1989
as Franz Goethe
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan...

Talk Radio
1988
as Vince / Morris
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.

Mandela
1987
as Benny
Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revol...

Valhalla
1986
as Loke (voice)
Two children in the Viking age find their way into the magical world of Norse mythology.

Bad Medicine
1985
as Dr. Diaz the Bus Driver
Jeff Marx wants to study medicine and become a physician. However, his grades are far from enough to get him into an American medical school. But then...

Yentl
1983
as Shimmele
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly fin...

The Return of the Soldier
1983
as Pianist at Party
The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife, Kitt...
Follow the Star
1979
Television production of a Nativity play for children which sees Gabby (the angel Gabriel) and his fellow angels help Mary, Joseph and the Wiseman to ...

Phoelix
1979
An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality...
The Funeral
N/A
as Rabbi Stephen
Arnold Cowan is not a religious man. He does not believe in any of that nonsense. Which is a bit of a problem because his son wants a proper bar mitzv...

The Entertainment System Is Down
N/A
Set on a long-haul flight where the entertainment systems fail, an eclectic group of international passengers are forced to face the horror of being b...