Ronald Fraser
Known for Acting · 99 credits
- Born
- 1930-04-11
- Died
- 1997-03-13
- Place of birth
- Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Ronald Gordon Fraser
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.
Known For
TV Shows (37)
Doctor Who
1963
as Joseph C.
No Hiding Place
1959
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Serebryakov / Squire / Col. Pickering
Minder
1979
as Albert Goddard / Self-Inflicted Sid
Theatre 625
1964
as Apthorpe
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
as Geoffrey
The Sweeney
1975
as Titus Oates
Taggart
1983
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Flute
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Jonathan Wild / Major-General Peter Howard / Charlie / Engstrand
Danger Man
1960
as Guiseppe
Lovejoy
1986
as Drummer / Michael Edwards
The Play on One
1988
as Timothy Apcar
Festival
1963
as Tom Broadbent
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
as Horrocks
Half Hour Story
1967
as Mr. McCarthy
The Misfit
1970
as Basil Allenby-Johnson
Star Maidens
1976
as Kipple
Fortunes of War
1987
as Commander Sheppy
Spooner's Patch
1979
as DI Spooner
Virtual Murder
1992
as Van Helsing
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Football Fan / Captain Brickman / Ledbetter / Alec
The Famous Five
1978
as Mr Barling
Out of This World
1962
as Oscar Raebone
Pennies from Heaven
1978
as Major Archibald Paxville
Madson
1996
as Walter Gardner
Conceptions of Murder
1970
as Alfred Rouse
Celebrity Playhouse
1981
as Colonel Pickering
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996
as Sir Richard Gregory
Dial M for Murder
1974
as Norman Nugent
The Blackheath Poisonings
1993
as Doctor Porter
Life Without George
1987
Between the Wars
1973
as Mr. Loveday
Sword of Honour
1967
as Apthorpe
The Bass Player and the Blonde
1978
as Charlie
Melissa
1974
as Felix Hepburn
Follow Me...
1977
as Sid Dawes
Movies (62)
Obituaries
1990
as Timothy Apcar
Come Play with Me
1977
as Slasher
The Flight of the Phoenix
1965
as Sergeant Watson
The Wild Geese
1978
as Sgt. Jock McTaggart
Trail of the Pink Panther
1982
as Dr. Longet
In Search of the Castaways
1962
as Guard at Dockyard Gate
Absolute Beginners
1986
as Amberley Drove
Scandal
1989
as Justice Marshall
Sinful Davey
1969
as MacNab
The Brahmin Widow
1968
as Major-General Peter Howard
Heavy Weather
1995
as Sir Gregory Parsloe
The Sundowners
1960
as Ocker
Too Late the Hero
1970
as Private Campbell
The Best of Enemies
1961
as Perfect
The V.I.P.s
1963
as Joslin
Pygmalion
1981
as Colonel Pickering
Let Him Have It
1991
as Niven's Judge
The Punch and Judy Man
1963
as Mayor Palmer
Girl in the Headlines
1963
as Sergeant Saunders
The Killing of Sister George
1968
as Leo Lockhart
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961
as L / Cpl. Macleish
Fallen Angels
1974
as Willy Banbury
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970
as Tom Hutchinson
Crooks in Cloisters
1964
as Walter Dodd
Fathom
1967
as Col. Douglas Campbell, Chief of HADES
Ooh...You Are Awful
1972
as Reggie Campbell Peek
Tangiers
1982
as Jenkins
The Willows in Winter
1996
as Chief Judge
The Wood Demon
1974
as Serbryakov
Hardcore
1977
as Marty
Swallows and Amazons
1974
as Uncle Jim
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
1971
as George (segment "Wrath")
The Ginger Man
1962
The Fifty-Seventh Saturday
1968
as Mr. McCarthy
Don't Bother to Knock
1961
as Fred
Sebastian
1968
as Toby
The Whisperers
1967
as Charlie Ross
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
1999
as Donald Parks
Code 7, Victim 5
1964
as Inspector Dickie Lean
Percy's Progress
1974
as Bleeker
There Was a Crooked Man
1960
as Gen. Cummins
The Counterfeit Constable
1964
as Sergent Timothy Reagan
The Hellions
1961
as Frank
Private Potter
1962
as Doctor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1958
as Flute
In the Secret State
1985
as Barnaby Tucker
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1993
The Blackheath Poisonings
1992
as Doctor Porter
The Beauty Jungle
1964
as Walter Carey
Pygmalion
1973
A Man in the Zoo
1975
as Curator
Rentadick
1972
as Major Upton
The Pot Carriers
1962
as Red Band
The Bass Player and the Blonde
1977
as Charlie
Luther
1968
as Tetzel
Murder on the Bluebell Line
1987
as Dr Watson
Oxford
1990
as Geoffrey
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
1988
as Joseph C
Daylight Robbery
1964
as Taxi driver
Black Ice
1957
as Tom
A Bit of a Lift
1973
as Alec
Ghosts
1977
as Engstrand
About Ronald Fraser
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 (… With 99 credits spanning from 1950 to 1999, Ronald Fraser has appeared in 62 films and 37 TV shows.
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Most Popular Ronald Fraser Movies
- Obituaries (1990) — as Timothy Apcar
- Come Play with Me (1977) — as Slasher
- The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) — as Sergeant Watson
- The Wild Geese (1978) — as Sgt. Jock McTaggart
- Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) — as Dr. Longet
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