Simon Ludders Explained

Simon Ludders is an English film and television actor, writer and director. He is best known for starring as Renfield in Young Dracula, a CBBC television series that initially aired in 2006 and finalised in 2014.^{[1] [2]}

He also played Trevor Smith in Broadchurch^[3] and appeared as Mr Swan in TV mini-series Becoming Human.^[4]

Next to appearing in film and television, Ludders is a theatre actor. In October 2014, he played Banquo in Macbeth, by William Shakespeare at the Colchester Mercury.^[5]

Ludders had most recently appeared in the fifth series of The Dumping Ground, the spin-off of the successful Tracy Beaker franchise as Peter Umbleby, a snobby next door neighbour living next to the care home, with a strong grudge against living next to a children's home, and later in the series finale, trying to get the care home closed and knocked down.

Acting credits

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Darklands	2nd cop
2003	Calendar Girls	Waiter
2017	Catherine the Great: Husbands, Lovers and Sons	Pugachev
	Alexander I: Into the Woods	Sperensky
2018	Red Joan	Naval Captain
2019	The Shores	Oxir
	Silver Darlings	Reggie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994		Roderigo	Episode: Othello
1996	Wales Playhouse	Rhys	Episode: Every Cloud
		Simeon/Butler	Episode: Joseph
1997	Harpur and Iles	Bank Manager	TV movie
1999	Lucky Bag		TV series
1999–2016	Casualty	Corp Burridge/Paul Bamford/Chris Dunham	4 episodes
2000	The Magic Paintbrush: A Story from China	Henchman (voice)	Short film (TV)
	Care	Clerk of the Court	TV movie
2002	The Basil Brush Show	Vermokiller	Episode: Mouse
	The Story of Tracy Beaker	Brian Gee	Episode: Child of the Week
	High Hopes	Vicar	Episode: Heavens Above!
	I'm Alan Partridge	Builder	3 episodes
2003–04	My Family	Undertaker 2/Teacher	2 episodes
2004	The Bill	Danny Partridge	Episode: 207
	Tunnel of Love	Education Officer 2
2006	Doctor Who	Patient	Episode: "New Earth"
	Green Wing	Detective	1 episode
2006–2014	Young Dracula	Renfield	66 episodes
2008	Belonging	Mr. Smith	1 episode
	Wire in the Blood		Episode: The Dead Land: Part 2
2009	Scoop	Sid The Source	13 episodes
	The Green Green Grass	Ian	Episode: The Departed
2009–2011	Gigglebiz	Various	16 episodes
2010	Rock & Chips	Mr. Manley	Pilot
	New Tricks	Richard – MI5	Episode: Left Field
2011	Becoming Human	Mr Swan	5 episodes
2013	Broadchurch	Trevor Smith	6 episodes
2014	Playhouse Presents	Mr. Wicks	Episode: Damned
	Doctors	Luke Jarvis	Episode: More Like Clouds Than Stars
2015	Spotless	Peter Marshall-Edwards	2 episodes
	Boy Meets Girl	Waiter	Episode: Episode #1.1
2016	Stella	Rev. Watts	Episode: Episode #5.9
	The Five	Joe Hanley	Episode: Episode #1.3
2017	The Dumping Ground	Peter Umbleby	6 episodes
	Back	Trevor Ellis	Episode: Episode #1.2
	Doctor Who	Overseer	Episode: "Thin Ice"
2018	EastEnders	DC Anderson	1 episode
2019	Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes	Warden Hodges	Episode: "Under Fire"
	The Captures	Forensics Officer Nick May	2 episodes
2020- present	Miss Scarlet and The Duke	Mr. Barnabus Potts	Series regular
2020	Bridgerton	Humboldt	4 episodes
2021	The Irregulars	Landlord	Episode: "Chapter Four: Both the Needle and the Knife"
2023	You	Robert	Episode: "Hampsie"
TBA	Winter Place	Lord Fairfax	In production

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2020	Assassin's Creed: Valhalla	Additional voices
2022		Bandits / Various	English version

Audio dramas

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	Torchwood: Outbreak	Luke Palmer
2017	Tommies	Bettsworth / Teddy Graham	2 episodes
2018	Torchwood: Monthly Range	Policeman	Episode: "Instant Karma"
	The War Master	Elliot King	2 episodes
2021	The Archers	Counsellor	Episode: "#1.19493"

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre	Location
2014	Macbeth	Banquo	Mercury Theatre	Colchester
2015	The Forsythe Sisters		Norwegian Church Arts Centre

Filmmaking credits

Television

Year	Title	Functioned as	Notes
1999	Lucky Bag	writer	TV series
2001	TV to Go	writer	TV series
2007–2016	The Armstrong and Miller Show	writer	TV series, 11 episodes
2011	Tati's Hotel	writer	TV series, 2 episodes
2012–2016	Stella	writer	TV series, 9 episodes
2017	Gigglebiz	writer	TV series, 2 episodes

Notes and References

1. Web site: Simon Ludders on Castledown Radio . Castledownradio.info . 22 September 2014.
2. Web site: Young Dracula . . 22 September 2014.
3. Web site: Broadchurch . Radio Times . Alison Graham . 22 September 2014.
4. Web site: Becoming Human. . BBC . 22 September 2014.
5. Web site: Review: Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Colchester Mercury, until October 18. . eadt.co.uk . David Henshall.