1. Allan Corduner has worked extensively on stage, TV, and film, both in the UK and in the United States.
27 Facts About Allan Corduner
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Allan Corduner's voice is familiar from many BBC radio plays, audio books and TV documentaries.
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Allan Corduner made his feature film debut in Yentl, with Barbra Streisand and Mandy Patinkin.
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Allan Corduner voiced Gehrman the first hunter in the 2015 video game Bloodborne.
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Allan Corduner grew up in a secular Jewish home in North London with his parents and younger brother.
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Allan Corduner's mother had escaped to Great Britain from Nazi Germany with her family in 1938.
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Allan Corduner's father was born in Helsinki, Finland, of a Finnish-born mother and a Ukrainian-born father.
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Allan Corduner's parents first settled in Stockholm, where he was born, but the family moved to London when he was one year old.
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Allan Corduner has worked extensively in theatre in London's West End and on Broadway, television as well as in film.
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Allan Corduner has appeared in several BBC Radio plays including The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Insignificance, and Fanny and Alexander.
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Allan Corduner's voice is familiar to listeners of audio books including The Book Thief.
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Allan Corduner appears on seasons 5 and 6 of the Showtime TV series Homeland.
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Spells at the Birmingham Rep and the Actors' Company followed, until Allan Corduner returned to London to make his West End debut in Mary O'Malley's Once a Catholic at the Wyndham's Theatre.
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Allan Corduner garnered acclaim on Broadway for the role of Etches in the musical Titanic.
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Allan Corduner played Fritz Litten in Mark Hayhurst's Taken at Midnight, first at Chichester Festival Theatre, and subsequently at Theatre Royal Haymarket in West End.
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Allan Corduner is probably best known for his portrayal of Sir Arthur Sullivan in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy, his first leading role in a feature film.
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Allan Corduner's voice is familiar to listeners of BBC radio plays such as Insignificance, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Fanny and Alexander.
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Allan Corduner was the subject of BBC Radio 3 Private Passions.
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Allan Corduner has provided voices for various video game characters, notably the first, second, third and fifth Harry Potter video games.
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Allan Corduner voiced Apus, the pet parrot belonging to Queen Cassiopeia, the primary antagonist, for the English version of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White White which was released in February 2013.
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In 2015, Allan Corduner voiced Gehrman, the First Hunter in Bloodborne.
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Allan Corduner is known for solo narration of TV documentaries such as Fish Warrior for the National Geographic Channel, and various audiobooks for Simply Audiobooks, notably The Book Thief and Inkdeath.
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Allan Corduner narrated Magyk written by Angie Sage and produced by Harper Audio.
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Allan Corduner has received two Earphones Awards by AudioFile His narration of "Anna and the Swallow Man" earned the Odyssey Award in 2017.
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Allan Corduner was born in Stockholm but grew up in London.
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Allan Corduner's mother was from Germany and his father from Finland.
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Allan Corduner is a trustee of the children's arts charity Anno's Africa.