Ronald Fraser
63 movies · 37 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 11, 1930
- Died
- Mar 13, 1997 (age 66)
- Place of birth
- Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Ronald Gordon Fraser
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)
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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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Ronald Fraser: movies and TV shows
Acting (100)
- 1999 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
as Donald Parks
- 1996 The Willows in Winter
as Chief Judge
- 1996
- 1996
- 1995 Heavy Weather
as Sir Gregory Parsloe
- 1993
- 1993
- 1992 The Blackheath Poisonings
as Doctor Porter
- 1992
- 1991 Let Him Have It
as Niven's Judge
- 1990 Obituaries
as Timothy Apcar
- 1990 Oxford
as Geoffrey
- 1989 Scandal
as Justice Marshall
- 1988 Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
as Joseph C
- 1988
- 1987
- 1987 Murder on the Bluebell Line
as Dr Watson
- 1987
- 1986 Absolute Beginners
as Amberley Drove
- 1986
- 1985 In the Secret State
as Barnaby Tucker
- 1983
- 1982 Trail of the Pink Panther
as Dr. Longet
- 1982
- 1982 Tangiers
as Jenkins
- 1981 Pygmalion
as Colonel Pickering
- 1981
- 1979
- 1978
- 1978
- 1978 The Wild Geese
as Sgt. Jock McTaggart
- 1978
- 1977 Ghosts
as Engstrand
- 1977
- 1977 The Bass Player and the Blonde
as Charlie
- 1977 Come Play with Me
as Slasher
- 1977 Hardcore
as Marty
- 1977
- 1976
- 1975 Paper Tiger
as Sergeant Forester
- 1975 A Man in the Zoo
as Curator
- 1975
- 1974
- 1974 The Wood Demon
as Serbryakov
- 1974 Percy's Progress
as Bleeker
- 1974 Fallen Angels
as Willy Banbury
- 1974 Swallows and Amazons
as Uncle Jim
- 1974
- 1973
- 1973 A Bit of a Lift
as Alec
- 1973
- 1972 Rentadick
as Major Upton
- 1972 Ooh...You Are Awful
as Reggie Campbell Peek
- 1971 The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
as George (segment "Wrath")
- 1971
- 1970 The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
as Tom Hutchinson
- 1970
- 1970 Too Late the Hero
as Private Campbell
- 1970
- 1969 Sinful Davey
as MacNab
- 1968 The Killing of Sister George
as Leo Lockhart
- 1968 The Fifty-Seventh Saturday
as Mr. McCarthy
- 1968 The Brahmin Widow
as Major-General Peter Howard
- 1968 Luther
as Tetzel
- 1968 Sebastian
as Toby
- 1967
- 1967 Fathom
as Col. Douglas Campbell, Chief of HADES
- 1967 The Whisperers
as Charlie Ross
- 1967
- 1967
- 1965 The Flight of the Phoenix
as Sergeant Watson
- 1965
- 1964 Daylight Robbery
as Taxi driver
- 1964 The Counterfeit Constable
as Sergent Timothy Reagan
- 1964 The Beauty Jungle
as Walter Carey
- 1964 Code 7, Victim 5
as Inspector Dickie Lean
- 1964
- 1964 Crooks in Cloisters
as Walter Dodd
- 1963
- 1963 Girl in the Headlines
as Sergeant Saunders
- 1963
- 1963 The V.I.P.s
as Joslin
- 1963 The Punch and Judy Man
as Mayor Palmer
- 1962 In Search of the Castaways
as Guard at Dockyard Gate
- 1962
- 1962 The Pot Carriers
as Red Band
- 1962
- 1962 Private Potter
as Doctor
- 1961 The Hellions
as Frank
- 1961 The Best of Enemies
as Perfect
- 1961 Don't Bother to Knock
as Fred
- 1961 The Long and the Short and the Tall
as L / Cpl. Macleish
- 1960 The Sundowners
as Ocker
- 1960
- 1960 There Was a Crooked Man
as Gen. Cummins
- 1959
- 1958 A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Flute
- 1957 Black Ice
as Tom
- 1956
- 1950
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1979 Minder
2 episodes