Ronald Fraser
Acting
Born: April 11, 1930 · Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, UK
Died: March 13, 1997 (aged 66)
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Biography
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.
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Movies (54)
Trail of the Pink Panther
Dr. Longet
The Wild Geese
Sgt. Jock McTaggart
In Search of the Castaways
Guard at Dockyard Gate
Absolute Beginners
Amberley Drove
Let Him Have It
Niven's Judge
The Flight of the Phoenix
Sergeant Watson
Too Late the Hero
Private Campbell
The Best of Enemies
Perfect
Crooks in Cloisters
Walter Dodd
The Killing of Sister George
Leo Lockhart
Scandal
Justice Marshall
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
George (segment "Wrath")
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
Donald Parks
Fallen Angels
Willy Banbury
The Pot Carriers
Red Band
Don't Bother to Knock
Fred
The V.I.P.s
Joslin
Sebastian
Toby
The Sundowners
Ocker
Come Play with Me
Slasher
The Punch and Judy Man
Mayor Palmer
The Blackheath Poisonings
Doctor Porter
The Counterfeit Constable
Sergent Timothy Reagan
There Was a Crooked Man
Gen. Cummins
Ooh...You Are Awful
Reggie Campbell Peek
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Tom Hutchinson
The Long and the Short and the Tall
L / Cpl. Macleish
The Wood Demon
Serbryakov
Fathom
Col. Douglas Campbell, Chief of HADES
Sinful Davey
MacNab
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
Joseph C
Girl in the Headlines
Sergeant Saunders
The Willows in Winter
Chief Judge
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Flute
Obituaries
Timothy Apcar
In the Secret State
Barnaby Tucker
A Bit of a Lift
Alec
Hardcore
Marty
Swallows and Amazons
Uncle Jim
Oxford
Geoffrey
Percy's Progress
Bleeker
Luther
Tetzel
Paper Tiger
Sergeant Forester
Daylight Robbery
Taxi driver
Pygmalion
Colonel Pickering
Rentadick
Major Upton
Code 7, Victim 5
Inspector Dickie Lean
Heavy Weather
Sir Gregory Parsloe
The Whisperers
Charlie Ross
The Hellions
Frank
Private Potter
Doctor
Ghosts
Engstrand
The Beauty Jungle
Walter Carey
Pygmalion
1973
TV Shows (39)
Doctor Who
Joseph C. · 3 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Serebryakov · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Squire · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Col. Pickering · 1 eps
Minder
Albert Goddard · 1 eps
ITV Playhouse
Jonathan Wild · 1 eps
ITV Playhouse
Major-General Peter Howard · 1 eps
ITV Playhouse
Charlie · 1 eps
ITV Playhouse
Engstrand · 1 eps
Theatre 625
Apthorpe · 2 eps
No Hiding Place
1 eps
The Sweeney
Titus Oates · 1 eps
Sunday Night Theatre
Flute · 1 eps
Taggart
1 eps
The Comic Strip Presents...
Geoffrey · 1 eps
Danger Man
Guiseppe · 1 eps
Lovejoy
Drummer · 1 eps
Lovejoy
Michael Edwards · 1 eps
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Horrocks · 1 eps
The Play on One
Timothy Apcar · 1 eps
The Famous Five
Mr Barling · 2 eps
Out of This World
Oscar Raebone · 1 eps
Star Maidens
Kipple · 1 eps
Half Hour Story
Mr. McCarthy · 1 eps
Fortunes of War
Commander Sheppy · 1 eps
Pennies from Heaven
Major Archibald Paxville · 1 eps
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Sir Richard Gregory · 1 eps
Virtual Murder
Van Helsing · 1 eps
Spooner's Patch
DI Spooner · 6 eps
Madson
Walter Gardner · 1 eps
The Misfit
Basil Allenby-Johnson · 13 eps
Armchair Theatre
1 eps
Armchair Theatre
Football Fan · 1 eps
Armchair Theatre
Captain Brickman · 1 eps
Armchair Theatre
Ledbetter · 1 eps
Armchair Theatre
Alec · 1 eps
The Blackheath Poisonings
Doctor Porter · 3 eps
Melissa
Felix Hepburn · 3 eps
Follow Me...
Sid Dawes · 7 eps