Ronald Fraser
Born
April 11, 1930
Died
March 13, 1997 (66 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, UK
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
The Willows in Winter
Chief Judge
1996
Heavy Weather
Sir Gregory Parsloe
1995
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
Donald Parks
1993
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1993
The Blackheath Poisonings
Doctor Porter · (3 episodes)
1993
The Blackheath Poisonings
Doctor Porter
1992
Virtual Murder
(1 episode)
1992
Let Him Have It
Niven's Judge
1991
Obituaries
Timothy Apcar
1990
Oxford
Geoffrey
1990
Scandal
Justice Marshall
1989
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
Joseph C
1988
The Play on One
Apcar · (1 episode)
1988
Fortunes of War
(7 episodes)
1987
Life Without George
(20 episodes)
1987
Murder on the Bluebell Line
Dr Watson
1987
Absolute Beginners
Amberley Drove
1986
Lovejoy
Drummer · (1 episode)
1986
Lovejoy
Michael Edwards · (1 episode)
1986
In the Secret State
Barnaby Tucker
1985
Tangiers
Jenkins
1985
Taggart
(1 episode)
1983
Trail of the Pink Panther
Dr. Longet
1982
The Comic Strip Presents...
Geoffrey · (1 episode)
1982
Pygmalion
Colonel Pickering
1981
Brideshead Revisited
Red-Haired Man · (11 episodes)
1981
Minder
Albert Goddard · (1 episode)
1979
Minder
Self-Inflicted Sid · (1 episode)
1979
Spooner's Patch
Inspector Spooner · (6 episodes)
1979
The Bass Player and the Blonde
Charlie · (3 episodes)
1978
The Famous Five
Mr Barling · (1 episode)
1978
The Wild Geese
Sgt. Jock McTaggart
1978
Pennies from Heaven
Major Archibald Paxville · (6 episodes)
1978
Ghosts
Engstrand
1977
Follow Me...
Sid Dawes · (7 episodes)
1977
The Bass Player and the Blonde
Charlie
1977
Come Play with Me
Slasher
1977
Hardcore
Marty
1977
Star Maidens
(1 episode)
1976
The Sweeney
Titus Oates · (1 episode)
1975
Melissa
Felix Hepburn · (3 episodes)
1974
The Wood Demon
Serbryakov
1974
Percy's Progress
Bleeker
1974
Fallen Angels
Willy Banbury
1974
Swallows and Amazons
Uncle Jim
1974
Pygmalion
1973
A Bit of a Lift
Alec
1973
Rentadick
Major Upton
1972
Ooh...You Are Awful
Reggie Campbell Peek
1972
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
George (segment "Wrath")
1971
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Horrocks · (1 episode)
1971
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Tom Hutchinson
1970
Too Late the Hero
Private Campbell
1970
The Misfit
Basil Allenby-Johnson · (13 episodes)
1970
Sinful Davey
MacNab
1969
The Killing of Sister George
Leo Lockhart
1968
The Fifty-Seventh Saturday
Mr. McCarthy
1968
The Brahmin Widow
Major-General Peter Howard
1968
Luther
Tetzel
1968
Sebastian
Toby
1968
Fathom
Col. Douglas Campbell, Chief of HADES
1967
The Whisperers
Charlie Ross
1967
The Flight of the Phoenix
Sergeant Watson
1965
BBC Play of the Month
Serebryakov · (1 episode)
1965
BBC Play of the Month
Squire · (1 episode)
1965
BBC Play of the Month
Col. Pickering · (1 episode)
1965
Daylight Robbery
1964
The Counterfeit Constable
Sergent Timothy Reagan
1964
The Beauty Jungle
Walter Carey
1964
Code 7, Victim 5
Inspector Dickie Lean
1964
Crooks in Cloisters
Walter Dodd
1964
Doctor Who
Joseph C. · (3 episodes)
1963
Girl in the Headlines
Sergeant Saunders
1963
Festival
Tom Broadbent · (1 episode)
1963
The V.I.P.s
Joslin
1963
The Punch and Judy Man
Mayor Palmer
1963
In Search of the Castaways
Guard at Dockyard Gate
1962
Out of This World
(1 episode)
1962
The Pot Carriers
Red Band
1962
The Ginger Man
1962
Private Potter
Doctor
1962
The Hellions
Frank
1961
The Best of Enemies
Perfect
1961
Don't Bother to Knock
Fred
1961
The Long and the Short and the Tall
L / Cpl. Macleish
1961
The Sundowners
Ocker
1960
There Was a Crooked Man
Gen. Cummins
1960
No Hiding Place
(1 episode)
1959
Black Ice
1957
Armchair Theatre
(1 episode)
1956