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