---
name: "Richard Pepple"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/richard-pepple"
fi1m_id: "richard-pepple"
imdb_id: "nm2086134"
tmdb_id: 1335218
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-24T11:23:18.862639+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Richard Pepple

## Identity

Richard Pepple

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/richard-pepple
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** richard-pepple
- **IMDb ID:** nm2086134
- **TMDB ID:** 1335218
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2086134/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1335218

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 74 (1), 2010s 74 (1), 2020s 64 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 71 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 2, Crime 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2086134/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1335218

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Fightland*](https://film.one/tv/fightland.md) (47)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Richard Pepple is a British actor. His screen credits include the role of Father Friday in *Beasts of No Nation* (2015), Tonzol in *Krypton* (2018), the Duke of Hastings in *Bridgerton* (2020), Mosi in *Gangs of London* (2020), and Grant Dunlin in *The Rig* (2023). He has also appeared in *Line of Duty* (2012), *Death in Paradise* (2011), *Little Women* (2017), *Cobra* (2020–2023) and *Motherland* (2017).

In 2026 Pepple plays Gary 'Gazzer' Kilroy in the Starz and Sky Atlantic series *Fightland*. Earlier work includes guest appearances in *The Family Pile* (2023) and voice roles in video games and radio drama. He has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, metacritic.com, tvmaze.com, express.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Fightland* (2026), Fi1m 47, as Gary 'Gazzer' Kilroy — [page](https://film.one/tv/fightland.md)
- *Bridgerton* (2020), Fi1m 80, as Duke of Hastings — [page](https://film.one/tv/bridgerton.md)
- *Motherland* (2017), Fi1m 74, as Malcolm Spender — [page](https://film.one/tv/motherland-2017.md)
- *Nathan Barley* (2005), Fi1m 74, as Bus Driver — [page](https://film.one/tv/nathan-barley.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Fightland* (2026), series, as Gary 'Gazzer' Kilroy — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/tv/fightland.md)
- *The Hack* (2025), series, as DI Graham Twyler
- *Katrina: The Hurricane That Drowned New Orleans* (2025), as Narrator
- *The Last House* (2024), as Sonny
- *The Family Pile* (2023), series, as Austin
- *The Rig* (2023), series, as Grant Dunlin
- *Hurricane Katrina - Minute by minute* (2022), as narrator
- *Bridgerton* (2020), series, as Duke of Hastings — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/bridgerton.md)
- *Gangs of London* (2020), series, as Mosi — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/gangs-of-london.md)
- *Radioactive* (2020), as Lester Jackson
- *COBRA* (2020), series, as Joseph Obasi
- *The Long Song* (2018), series, as Dublin Hilton
- *Krypton* (2018), series, as Tonzol
- *Little Women* (2017), series, as Hairdresser
- *Motherland* (2017), series, as Malcolm Spender — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/motherland-2017.md)
- *Damilola, Our Loved Boy* (2016), as Defence Barrister
- *God's Acre* (2015), as Sonny
- *Beasts of No Nation* (2015), as Father Friday
- *Run* (2013), series, as Ade
- *Dates* (2013), series, as Martin
- *Kingmakers* (2013), as Ola
- *Line of Duty* (2012), series, as PS Kyle Ferringham — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/line-of-duty.md)
- *Death in Paradise* (2011), series, as Junior
- *Caught in a Trap* (2008), as PC Morris
- *Shoot the Messenger* (2006), as Roy
- *Nathan Barley* (2005), series, as Bus Driver — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/nathan-barley.md)

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