Russell Richardson

Russell Richardson

As Gerald Mallet

Russell trained at East 15 Acting School in London.

Theatre includes: Noises Off (New Wolsey/Queens Theatre Hornchurch/Les Theatres Della Ville de Luxembourg/Theatre by the Lake); Brassed Off (Theatre by the Lake/SJT/Octagon Bolton); The Book of Will (Shakespeare North Playhouse/Octagon); Canterbury Tales, The Secret Garden (Theatre by the Lake); To Have To Shoot Irishmen (Liverpool Everyman); Chip Shop Chips (Box of Tricks); The Winter’s Tale, An August Bank Holiday Lark (Northern Broadsides); The Hobbit, Pinocchio, Oliver Twist (Duke’s Playhouse, Lancaster); Hindle Wakes, A View From The Bridge, Romeo and Juliet, Comedians, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ghosts (Bolton Octagon); Our Day Out, Deathtrap (Oldham Coliseum); Cinderella, The Glee Club (CAST Doncaster);  The Enough Project (DepArts/Lowry Theatre); The Wind In The Willows (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing, Hercules (Grosvenor Park Chester); Cinderella (Victoria Theatre Halifax); Waiting For Godot (Garrick Theatre Lichfield); Singin’ In The Rain (London Palladium); Bouncers (Crescent Theatre, Birmingham); Aladdin, Babes In The Wood (Gracie Fields Theatre Rochdale); Mr Cinders (Kings Head Theatre London); Pied Piper (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff); Babes In Arms, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); The Miracle Tour (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham).

Film includes: Bolan’s Shoes, Me, Myself & Di, Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Booksho,; The Siege, Scent (Screen Yorkshire – BAFTA nominated), Doggin’ Around.

Television includes: Dodger, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Bancroft, Last Tango in Halifax, Doctors, Two Pints of Lager & a Packet of Crisps, Brookside, Holby City, Family Affairs, Murder In Mind, Dalziel & Pascoe, Hollyoaks, Bugs, Drop The Dead Donkey, Pork Pie, London’s Burning, The Bill, Poirot.

Radio plays include: Brief Lives (2 series), Homeowners, Things Might Change or Cease, The Desk, The Thank-You Present, Blood in the Mountain, Crimes of Mancunia, The End of the World, Condurrow (all BBC).