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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

Bio

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

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

The Flight of the Phoenix

The Flight of the Phoenix

Trail of the Pink Panther

Trail of the Pink Panther

The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese

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

(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

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

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