Ronald Fraser
Born April 11, 1930 (Age: 96)
•
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, UK
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) 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.
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.
Read more
Filmography
The Willows in Winter
1996
•
as Chief Judge
•
Age: 66
No Image
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1993
•
as
•
Age: 63
The Blackheath Poisonings
1992
•
as Doctor Porter
•
Age: 62
Let Him Have It
1991
•
as Niven's Judge
•
Age: 61
Obituaries
1990
•
as Timothy Apcar
•
Age: 60
Oxford
1990
•
as Geoffrey
•
Age: 59
Scandal
1989
•
as Justice Marshall
•
Age: 58
No Image
Murder on the Bluebell Line
1987
•
as Dr Watson
•
Age: 56
In the Secret State
1985
•
as Barnaby Tucker
•
Age: 54
Trail of the Pink Panther
1982
•
as Dr. Longet
•
Age: 52
Pygmalion
1981
•
as Colonel Pickering
•
Age: 51
The Wild Geese
1978
•
as Sgt. Jock McTaggart
•
Age: 48
Ghosts
1977
•
as Engstrand
•
Age: 47
No Image
The Bass Player and the Blonde
1977
•
as Charlie
•
Age: 47
The Wood Demon
1974
•
as Serbryakov
•
Age: 44
Percy's Progress
1974
•
as Bleeker
•
Age: 44
Fallen Angels
1974
•
as Willy Banbury
•
Age: 44
Swallows and Amazons
1974
•
as Uncle Jim
•
Age: 44
Pygmalion
1973
•
as
•
Age: 43
A Bit of a Lift
1973
•
as Alec
•
Age: 43
Rentadick
1972
•
as Major Upton
•
Age: 42
Ooh...You Are Awful
1972
•
as Reggie Campbell Peek
•
Age: 42
Sinful Davey
1969
•
as MacNab
•
Age: 38
No Image
The Fifty-Seventh Saturday
1968
•
as Mr. McCarthy
•
Age: 38
No Image
The Brahmin Widow
1968
•
as Major-General Peter Howard
•
Age: 37
Luther
1968
•
as Tetzel
•
Age: 37
The Flight of the Phoenix
1965
•
as Sergeant Watson
•
Age: 35
Daylight Robbery
1964
•
as Taxi driver
•
Age: 34
The Counterfeit Constable
1964
•
as Sergent Timothy Reagan
•
Age: 34
The Beauty Jungle
1964
•
as Walter Carey
•
Age: 34
Code 7, Victim 5
1964
•
as Inspector Dickie Lean
•
Age: 34
Crooks in Cloisters
1964
•
as Walter Dodd
•
Age: 33
Girl in the Headlines
1963
•
as Sergeant Saunders
•
Age: 33
The V.I.P.s
1963
•
as Joslin
•
Age: 33
The Punch and Judy Man
1963
•
as Mayor Palmer
•
Age: 32
In Search of the Castaways
1962
•
as Guard at Dockyard Gate
•
Age: 32
The Pot Carriers
1962
•
as Red Band
•
Age: 31
Private Potter
1962
•
as Doctor
•
Age: 31
No Image
The Ginger Man
1962
•
as
•
Age: 31
The Hellions
1961
•
as Frank
•
Age: 31
The Best of Enemies
1961
•
as Perfect
•
Age: 31
Don't Bother to Knock
1961
•
as Fred
•
Age: 31
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961
•
as L / Cpl. Macleish
•
Age: 30
The Sundowners
1960
•
as Ocker
•
Age: 30
There Was a Crooked Man
1960
•
as Gen. Cummins
•
Age: 30
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1958
•
as Flute
•
Age: 28