# Simon Ludders

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.
He also played Trevor Smith in Broadchurch and appeared as Mr Swan in TV mini-series Becoming Human.
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.
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 |
| 1996 | Darklands | 2nd cop |
| 2003 | Calendar Girls | Waiter |
| 2017 | Catherine the Great: Husbands, Lovers and Sons | Pugachev |
| 2017 | Alexander I: Into the Woods | Sperensky |
| 2018 | Red Joan | Naval Captain |
| 2019 | The Shores | Oxir |
| 2019 | Silver Darlings | Reggie |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1994 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Roderigo | Episode: Othello |
| 1996 | Wales Playhouse | Rhys | Episode: Every Cloud |
| 1996 | Testament: The Bible in Animation | 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) |
| 2000 | Care | Clerk of the Court | TV movie |
| 2002 | The Basil Brush Show | Vermokiller | Episode: Mouse |
| 2002 | The Story of Tracy Beaker | Brian Gee | Episode: Child of the Week |
| 2002 | High Hopes | Vicar | Episode: Heavens Above! |
| 2002 | I'm Alan Partridge | Builder | 3 episodes |
| 2003–04 | My Family | Undertaker 2/Teacher | 2 episodes |
| 2004 | The Bill | Danny Partridge | Episode: 207 |
| 2004 | Tunnel of Love | Education Officer 2 | |
| 2006 | Doctor Who | Patient | Episode: "New Earth" |
| 2006 | Green Wing | Detective | 1 episode |
| 2006–2014 | Young Dracula | Renfield | 66 episodes |
| 2008 | Belonging | Mr. Smith | 1 episode |
| 2008 | Wire in the Blood | | Episode: The Dead Land: Part 2 |
| 2009 | Scoop | Sid The Source | 13 episodes |
| 2009 | The Green Green Grass | Ian | Episode: The Departed |
| 2009–2011 | Gigglebiz | Various | 16 episodes |
| 2010 | Rock & Chips | Mr. Manley | Pilot |
| 2010 | 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 |
| 2014 | Doctors | Luke Jarvis | Episode: More Like Clouds Than Stars |
| 2015 | Spotless | Peter Marshall-Edwards | 2 episodes |
| 2015 | Boy Meets Girl | Waiter | Episode: Episode #1.1 |
| 2016 | Stella | Rev. Watts | Episode: Episode #5.9 |
| 2016 | The Five | Joe Hanley | Episode: Episode #1.3 |
| 2017 | The Dumping Ground | Peter Umbleby | 6 episodes |
| 2017 | Back | Trevor Ellis | Episode: Episode #1.2 |
| 2017 | Doctor Who | Overseer | Episode: "Thin Ice" |
| 2018 | EastEnders | DC Anderson | 1 episode |
| 2019 | Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes | Warden Hodges | Episode: "Under Fire" |
| 2019 | 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 | A Plague Tale: Requiem | 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" |
| 2018 | 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
### Film

| Year | Title | Functioned as | Notes |
| 2005 | The Last Child of the Sixties | writer, director and producer | Short film |

### 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 |