Allan Corduner

Allan Corduner

1950-04-02 Stockholm, Sweden 64 Credits

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...

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Christmas Karma

2025

Acting

A story of an Indian who votes for the Conservative Party and hates refugees.

National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue

National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue

2024

as Hume Cronyn

7.5
Acting

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

Family

2024

Acting

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

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus

2022

as The Deacon

5.3
Acting

The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.

TÁR

TÁR

2022

as Sebastian Brix

7.1
Acting

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

The Offering

2022

as Saul

6.0
Acting

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

Mosquito

2022

as Ozwald Godfrey

Acting

A tale of sacrifice and showmanship told through rival doctors in the old west.

The Man Who Saw Too Much

The Man Who Saw Too Much

2019

as Boris Pahor (voice)

7.0
Acting

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

Disobedience

2018

as Moshe Hartog

6.9
Acting

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

The Book of Gabrielle

2017

as Saul

5.5
Acting

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

Florence Foster Jenkins

2016

as John Totten

6.7
Acting

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

Woman in Gold

2015

as Gustav Bloch-Bauer

7.3
Acting

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

Closer to the Moon

2014

as Flaviu

6.7
Acting

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

The Sweeney

2012

as Doctor

5.7
Acting

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

A Thousand Kisses Deep

2012

as Buddy

4.8
Acting

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

An Enemy to Die For

2012

as Martin Winter

5.7
Acting

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

We'll Take Manhattan

2012

as Alex Liberman

5.5
Acting

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

Lennon Naked

2010

as Art Janov

5.7
Acting

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

Burke & Hare

Burke & Hare

2010

as Nicephore

6.1
Acting

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.

Mr. Nobody

Mr. Nobody

2009

as Dr. Feldheim

7.8
Acting

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

Defiance

2008

as Shimon Haretz

6.8
Acting

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

Fred Claus

2007

as Dr. Goldfarb

5.8
Acting

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

Acting

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

The Owls and the Orchard

2005

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Acting

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

The White Countess

2005

as Samuel Feinstein

6.2
Acting

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

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

2005

as Greenhough Smith

6.1
Acting

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

Friends & Crocodiles

2005

as Marcus

5.1
Acting

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

Bigger Than the Sky

2005

as Kippy Newberg

5.3
Acting

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

The Merchant of Venice

2004

as Tubal

6.8
Acting

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

Vera Drake

2004

as Psychiatrist

7.2
Acting

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

De-Lovely

2004

as Monty Woolley

6.2
Acting

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

Christine

2004

as Maurice Leyman

6.0
Acting

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

The King's Beard

2002

as (voice)

6.0
Acting

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

Moonlight Mile

2002

as Stan Michaels

6.3
Acting

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

Food of Love

2002

as Joseph Mansourian

5.6
Acting

Young aspiring pianist attracts attention of famous musicians. Chance encounters bring them together but expectations must be managed by all.

Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)

Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)

2001

as Big Bob

5.7
Acting

A hit man who wants out of the business is targeted by old colleagues.

Me Without You

Me Without You

2001

as Max

6.4
Acting

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

The Search for John Gissing

2001

as Francois Fuller

4.5
Acting

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

The Grey Zone

2001

as Nyiszli

6.6
Acting

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

Zoe

2001

as Rupert

3.0
Acting

Three runaway girls hijack a car.

Joe Gould's Secret

Joe Gould's Secret

2000

as Francis McCrudden

6.1
Acting

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

Topsy-Turvy

1999

as Sir Arthur Sullivan

6.6
Acting

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

The Impostors

The Impostors

1998

as Captain

5.8
Acting

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

Alive and Kicking

1996

as Therapist

4.9
Acting

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

Norma Jean & Marilyn

1996

as Billy Wilder

6.2
Acting

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

Gadgetman

1996

as Professor McNeil

9.0
Acting

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

Voices

1995

as Oscar Butterworth

4.8
Acting

A story about real life early 20th century British composer and music critic Philip Arnold Heseltine.

A Business Affair

A Business Affair

1994

as Dinner Guest

4.8
Acting

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

Nobody's Children

1994

as Ion

4.3
Acting

An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

1993

as Verme

5.7
Acting

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

Carry On Columbus

1992

as Sam

3.8
Acting

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

Edward II

1991

as Poet

6.2
Acting

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

Antonia and Jane

1990

as Stephen Carlinsky

5.5
Acting

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

Fat Man and Little Boy

1989

as Franz Goethe

6.2
Acting

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

Talk Radio

1988

as Vince / Morris

7.0
Acting

A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.

Mandela

Mandela

1987

as Benny

4.4
Acting

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

Valhalla

1986

as Loke (voice)

6.7
Acting

Two children in the Viking age find their way into the magical world of Norse mythology.

Bad Medicine

Bad Medicine

1985

as Dr. Diaz the Bus Driver

5.1
Acting

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

Yentl

1983

as Shimmele

6.7
Acting

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

The Return of the Soldier

1983

as Pianist at Party

6.2
Acting

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

Acting

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

Phoelix

1979

Acting

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

Acting

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

The Entertainment System Is Down

N/A

Acting

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...