Ronald Fraser

Ronald Fraser

Acting 1930-04-11 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.

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1996 Chief Judge
1995 Sir Gregory Parsloe
1993 Doctor Porter
1992 Doctor Porter
1991 Niven's Judge
1990 Timothy Apcar
1990 Geoffrey
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1989 Justice Marshall
1988 Apcar
1987 Dr Watson
1987 Commander Sheppy
1986 Amberley Drove
1986 Drummer
1986 Michael Edwards
1985 Barnaby Tucker
1983
1982 Dr. Longet
1982 Jenkins
1982 Geoffrey
1981 Colonel Pickering
1979 Albert Goddard
1979 Inspector Spooner
1979 Self-Inflicted Sid
1978 Sgt. Jock McTaggart
1978 Mr Barling
1978 Major Archibald Paxville
1977 Slasher
1977 Engstrand
1977 Marty
1977 Sid Dawes
1976 Kipple
1975 Titus Oates
1974 Uncle Jim
1974 Bleeker
1974 Serbryakov
1974 Willy Banbury
1974 Felix Hepburn
1973 Alec
1973
1972 Reggie Campbell Peek
1972 Major Upton
1971 George (segment "Wrath")
1971 Horrocks
1970 Tom Hutchinson
1970 Private Campbell
1970 Basil Allenby-Johnson
1969 MacNab
1968 Leo Lockhart
1968 Toby
1968 Major-General Peter Howard
1968 Mr. McCarthy
1968 Tetzel
1967 Col. Douglas Campbell, Chief of HADES
1967 Charlie Ross
1967 Apthorpe
1965 Sergeant Watson
1965 Serebryakov
1965 Squire
1965 Col. Pickering
1964 Inspector Dickie Lean
1964 Walter Dodd
1964 Walter Carey
1964 Sergent Timothy Reagan
1964 Taxi driver
1964 Apthorpe
1963 Joslin
1963 Sergeant Saunders
1963 Mayor Palmer
1963 Joseph C.
1963 Tom Broadbent
1962 Guard at Dockyard Gate
1962 Red Band
1962 Doctor
1962 Oscar Raebone
1961 Frank
1961 Fred
1961 L / Cpl. Macleish
1961 Perfect
1960 Gen. Cummins
1960 Ocker
1957
1950 Flute