Ronald Fraser
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 11, 1930
- Died
- March 13, 1997 (aged 66)
- Birthplace
- Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, UK
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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Filmography
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
Movie · as Donald Parks
The Willows in Winter
Movie · as Chief Judge
Madson
TV · as Walter Gardner · 1 ep
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
TV · as Sir Richard Gregory · 1 ep
Heavy Weather
Movie · as Sir Gregory Parsloe
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Movie
The Blackheath Poisonings
TV · as Doctor Porter · 3 eps
The Blackheath Poisonings
Movie · as Doctor Porter
Virtual Murder
TV · as Van Helsing · 1 ep
Let Him Have It
Movie · as Niven's Judge
Obituaries
Movie · as Timothy Apcar
Oxford
Movie · as Geoffrey
Scandal
Movie · as Justice Marshall
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
Movie · as Joseph C
The Play on One
TV · as Timothy Apcar · 1 ep
Murder on the Bluebell Line
Movie · as Dr Watson
Life Without George
TV · as Harold Chambers · 19 eps
Fortunes of War
TV · as Commander Sheppy · 1 ep
Absolute Beginners
Movie · as Amberley Drove
Lovejoy
TV · as Drummer, Michael Edwards · 1 ep
In the Secret State
Movie · as Barnaby Tucker
Taggart
TV · 1 ep
Trail of the Pink Panther
Movie · as Dr. Longet
Tangiers
Movie · as Jenkins
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV · as Geoffrey · 1 ep
Pygmalion
Movie · as Colonel Pickering
Celebrity Playhouse
TV · as Colonel Pickering · 1 ep
Minder
TV · as Albert Goddard, Self-Inflicted Sid · 1 ep
Spooner's Patch
TV · as DI Spooner · 6 eps
The Wild Geese
Movie · as Sgt. Jock McTaggart
The Famous Five
TV · as Mr Barling · 2 eps
The Bass Player and the Blonde
TV · as Charlie · 3 eps
Pennies from Heaven
TV · as Major Archibald Paxville · 1 ep
Come Play with Me
Movie · as Slasher
Ghosts
Movie · as Engstrand
Hardcore
Movie · as Marty
The Bass Player and the Blonde
Movie · as Charlie
Follow Me...
TV · as Sid Dawes · 7 eps
Mr Big
TV · as Mr Oldenshaw · 2 eps
Star Maidens
TV · as Kipple · 1 ep
A Man in the Zoo
Movie · as Curator
Paper Tiger
Movie · as Sergeant Forester
The Sweeney
TV · as Titus Oates · 1 ep
Swallows and Amazons
Movie · as Uncle Jim
Percy's Progress
Movie · as Bleeker
The Wood Demon
Movie · as Serbryakov
Fallen Angels
Movie · as Willy Banbury
Melissa
TV · as Felix Hepburn · 3 eps
Dial M for Murder
TV · as Norman Nugent · 1 ep
A Bit of a Lift
Movie · as Alec
Pygmalion
Movie
Between the Wars
TV · as Mr. Loveday · 1 ep
Ooh...You Are Awful
Movie · as Reggie Campbell Peek
Rentadick
Movie · as Major Upton
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
Movie · as George (segment "Wrath")
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV · as Horrocks · 1 ep
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Movie · as Tom Hutchinson
Too Late the Hero
Movie · as Private Campbell
The Misfit
TV · as Basil Allenby-Johnson · 13 eps
Conceptions of Murder
TV · as Alfred Rouse · 1 ep
Sinful Davey
Movie · as MacNab
The Killing of Sister George
Movie · as Leo Lockhart
Sebastian
Movie · as Toby
The Brahmin Widow
Movie · as Major-General Peter Howard
The Fifty-Seventh Saturday
Movie · as Mr. McCarthy
Luther
Movie · as Tetzel
Fathom
Movie · as Col. Douglas Campbell, Chief of HADES
The Whisperers
Movie · as Charlie Ross
Sword of Honour
TV · as Apthorpe · 1 ep
ITV Playhouse
TV · as Jonathan Wild, Major-General Peter Howard, Charlie, Engstrand · 1 ep
Half Hour Story
TV · as Mr. McCarthy · 1 ep
The Flight of the Phoenix
Movie · as Sergeant Watson
BBC Play of the Month
TV · as Serebryakov, Squire, Col. Pickering · 1 ep
The Troubleshooters
TV · as Nichols · 1 ep
Code 7, Victim 5
Movie · as Inspector Dickie Lean
Crooks in Cloisters
Movie · as Walter Dodd
The Beauty Jungle
Movie · as Walter Carey
The Counterfeit Constable
Movie · as Sergent Timothy Reagan
Daylight Robbery
Movie · as Taxi driver
Theatre 625
TV · as Apthorpe · 2 eps
The V.I.P.s
Movie · as Joslin
Girl in the Headlines
Movie · as Sergeant Saunders
The Punch and Judy Man
Movie · as Mayor Palmer
Doctor Who
TV · as Joseph C. · 3 eps
Festival
TV · as Tom Broadbent · 1 ep
In Search of the Castaways
Movie · as Guard at Dockyard Gate
The Ginger Man
Movie
The Pot Carriers
Movie · as Red Band
Private Potter
Movie · as Doctor
Out of This World
TV · as Oscar Raebone · 1 ep
The Hellions
Movie · as Frank
Don't Bother to Knock
Movie · as Fred
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Movie · as L / Cpl. Macleish
The Best of Enemies
Movie · as Perfect
There Was a Crooked Man
Movie · as Gen. Cummins
The Sundowners
Movie · as Ocker
Danger Man
TV · as Guiseppe · 1 ep
No Hiding Place
TV · 1 ep
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie · as Flute
Black Ice
Movie · as Tom
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Football Fan, Captain Brickman, Ledbetter, Alec · 1 ep
Sunday Night Theatre
TV · as Flute · 1 ep