Ronald Fraser
Ronald Gordon Fraser (11 April 1930 – 13 March 1997) was a British character actor, who appeared in numerous British plays, films and television shows from the 1950s to the 1990s. Fraser was a familiar figure in West End clubs during the 1960s, having had a long-standing reputation as a heavy drinker.
His credits include The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961), ‘’The Best of Enemies (1961)’’Flight of the Phoenix (1965), The Avengers (1965), The Killing of Sister George (1968), The Misfit (1970–1971), Pygmalion (1973), Swallows and Amazons (1974), Come Play With Me (1977), The Wild Geese (1978), Spooner's Patch (1979), Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), Tangiers (1982), Absolute Beginners (1986), Minder (1985–1989), Scandal (1989), Let Him Have It (1991), Taggart (1992), and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993)
Ronald Fraser was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, the son of an interior decorator and builder from Scotland. He attended Ashton-under-Lyne Grammar School. He was further educated in Scotland and did national service as a lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders. Whilst serving in Benghazi, North Africa, he appeared in the Terence Rattigan comic play French Without Tears.
He trained as an actor at RADA, graduating in 1953. He appeared at Glasgow's Citizens' Theatre, and joined the Old Vic repertory company in 1954, making his first London appearance in The Good Sailor, a stage adaptation of Herman Melville's novel, Billy Budd.
In the West End, he appeared in The Long and the Short and the Tall (1959), The Ginger Man, The Singular Man, Androcles and the Lion (1961), The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet (1961), Purple Dust by Seán O'Casey, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Joseph Papp's production of The Pirates of Penzance and High Society. He also played Falstaff in a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. His only Broadway show was the flop La Grosse Valise by Robert Dhéry, Gérard Calvi and Harold Rome.
He appeared in numerous television roles from 1954, and in nearly 50 films from 1957, mostly in comedies. He was notable as Basil "Badger" Allenby-Johnson in the 1970s television series The Misfit (1970–1971). In 1996 Fraser voiced the chief judge in The Willows in Winter.
Fotos
Películas (63)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
1999 · Donald Parks
The Willows in Winter
1996 · Chief Judge
Heavy Weather
1995 · Sir Gregory Parsloe
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1993
The Blackheath Poisonings
1992 · Doctor Porter
Let Him Have It
1991 · Niven's Judge
Obituaries
1990 · Timothy Apcar
Oxford
1990 · Geoffrey
Scandal
1989 · Justice Marshall
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
1988 · Joseph C
Murder on the Bluebell Line
1987 · Dr Watson
Absolute Beginners
1986 · Amberley Drove
In the Secret State
1985 · Barnaby Tucker
Trail of the Pink Panther
1982 · Dr. Longet
Tangiers
1982 · Jenkins
Pygmalion
1981 · Colonel Pickering
The Wild Geese
1978 · Sgt. Jock McTaggart
Ghosts
1977 · Engstrand
The Bass Player and the Blonde
1977 · Charlie
Come Play with Me
1977 · Slasher
Hardcore
1977 · Marty
Paper Tiger
1975 · Sergeant Forester
A Man in the Zoo
1975 · Curator
The Wood Demon
1974 · Serbryakov
Percy's Progress
1974 · Bleeker
Fallen Angels
1974 · Willy Banbury
Swallows and Amazons
1974 · Uncle Jim
Pygmalion
1973
A Bit of a Lift
1973 · Alec
Rentadick
1972 · Major Upton
Ooh...You Are Awful
1972 · Reggie Campbell Peek
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
1971 · George (segment "Wrath")
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970 · Tom Hutchinson
Too Late the Hero
1970 · Private Campbell
Sinful Davey
1969 · MacNab
The Killing of Sister George
1968 · Leo Lockhart
The Fifty-Seventh Saturday
1968 · Mr. McCarthy
The Brahmin Widow
1968 · Major-General Peter Howard
Luther
1968 · Tetzel
Sebastian
1968 · Toby
Fathom
1967 · Col. Douglas Campbell, Chief of HADES
The Whisperers
1967 · Charlie Ross
The Flight of the Phoenix
1965 · Sergeant Watson
Daylight Robbery
1964 · Taxi driver
The Counterfeit Constable
1964 · Sergent Timothy Reagan
The Beauty Jungle
1964 · Walter Carey
Code 7, Victim 5
1964 · Inspector Dickie Lean
Crooks in Cloisters
1964 · Walter Dodd
Girl in the Headlines
1963 · Sergeant Saunders
The V.I.P.s
1963 · Joslin
The Punch and Judy Man
1963 · Mayor Palmer
In Search of the Castaways
1962 · Guard at Dockyard Gate
The Pot Carriers
1962 · Red Band
The Ginger Man
1962
Private Potter
1962 · Doctor
The Hellions
1961 · Frank
The Best of Enemies
1961 · Perfect
Don't Bother to Knock
1961 · Fred
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961 · L / Cpl. Macleish
The Sundowners
1960 · Ocker
There Was a Crooked Man
1960 · Gen. Cummins
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1958 · Flute
Black Ice
1957 · Tom
Series (39)
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996 · Sir Richard Gregory
Madson
1996 · Walter Gardner
The Blackheath Poisonings
1993 · Doctor Porter
Virtual Murder
1992 · Van Helsing
The Play on One
1988 · Timothy Apcar
Fortunes of War
1987 · Commander Sheppy
Life Without George
1987 · Harold Chambers
Lovejoy
1986 · Drummer, Michael Edwards
Taggart
1983
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982 · Geoffrey
Celebrity Playhouse
1981 · Colonel Pickering
Minder
1979 · Albert Goddard, Self-Inflicted Sid
Spooner's Patch
1979 · DI Spooner
The Bass Player and the Blonde
1978 · Charlie
The Famous Five
1978 · Mr Barling
Pennies from Heaven
1978 · Major Archibald Paxville
Follow Me...
1977 · Sid Dawes
Mr Big
1977 · Mr Oldenshaw
Star Maidens
1976 · Kipple
The Sweeney
1975 · Titus Oates
Melissa
1974 · Felix Hepburn
Dial M for Murder
1974 · Norman Nugent
Between the Wars
1973 · Mr. Loveday
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · Horrocks
Conceptions of Murder
1970 · Alfred Rouse
The Misfit
1970 · Basil Allenby-Johnson
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Jonathan Wild, Major-General Peter Howard, Charlie, Engstrand
Half Hour Story
1967 · Mr. McCarthy
Sword of Honour
1967 · Apthorpe
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Serebryakov, Squire, Col. Pickering
The Troubleshooters
1965 · Nichols
Theatre 625
1964 · Apthorpe
Doctor Who
1963 · Joseph C.
Festival
1963 · Tom Broadbent
Out of This World
1962 · Oscar Raebone
Danger Man
1960 · Guiseppe
No Hiding Place
1959
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Football Fan, Captain Brickman, Ledbetter, Alec
Sunday Night Theatre
1950 · Flute