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