Ballard Berkeley

Ballard Berkeley made his professional stage debut in 1928, and performed for many years in London's West End and in New York theatres. He is best remembered as Major Gowen in the British television series "Fawlty Towers" (1975).

Known For: Acting

Born: Margate, Kent, England, UK, 1904-08-06

Died: 1988-01-16

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1930	London Melody	Jan Moor	0
2	1930	The Chinese Bungalow	Richard Marquess	0
3	1934	White Ensign		0
4	1936	East Meets West	Nazim	0
5	1937	Jennifer Hale	Richard Severn	50
6	1939	The Gang's All Here	Detective in Nightclub	50
7	1939	Black Eyes	Diner	55
8	1939	The Saint in London	Richard Blake	55
9	1940	The Flying Squad	Smuggler in Airplane	60
10	1942	In Which We Serve	Engineer Commander	68
11	1946	Quiet Weekend	Jim Brent	48
12	1947	They Made Me a Fugitive	Rockliffe	67
13	1950	Stage Fright	Sergeant Mellish	68
14	1951	Blackmailed	Dr. McCormick	35
15	1951	The Long Dark Hall	Supt. Maxey	64
16	1952	The Frightened Man	Inspector Bligh	62
17	1952	The Big Frame	Doctor	38
18	1952	Circumstantial Evidence	Det. Insp. Hall	55
19	1953	The Blue Parrot	Supt. Chester	53
20	1953	Operation Diplomat	Inspector Austin	58
21	1953	3 Steps to the Gallows	Insp. Haley	64
22	1954	The Weak and the Wicked	Police Detective	60
23	1954	Dangerous Cargo	Findley	52
24	1954	Forbidden Cargo	Cooper	64
25	1954	Delayed Action	Insp. Crane	52
26	1954	The Men of Sherwood Forest	Walter	64
27	1955	The Stolen Airliner	Mr Head	0
28	1956	My Teenage Daughter	Magistrate	60
29	1957	The Betrayal	Lawson	60
30	1957	Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst	Lieutenant Colonel Dewar-Curie	72
31	1957	After the Ball	Andrews	60
32	1957	Night of the Demon		70
33	1958	The Man Who Wouldn't Talk	Court Clerk (uncredited)	60
34	1958	Chain of Events	Stockman	63
35	1958	Further Up the Creek	Whacker Payne	60
36	1960	Cone of Silence	Commissioner	67
37	1963	A Matter of Choice	Charles Grant	67
38	1963	Impact	Bill MacKenzie	42
39	1965	The Murder Game	Sir Colin Chalmers	0
40	1965	The Night Caller	Cmdr. Savage	53
41	1968	Hostile Witness	Clerk of Court	62
42	1970	The Weekend Murders	Peter, the butler	60
43	1976	Confessions of a Driving Instructor	Lord Snodley	48
44	1978	The Playbirds	Trainer	48
45	1979	Queen of the Blues	Uncle Fred (as Ballard Barclay)	32
46	1980	The Wildcats of St. Trinian's	Humphry Wills	44
47	1980	Little Lord Fauntleroy	Harry Lorradaile	74
48	1985	National Lampoon's European Vacation	2nd Motorist	62
49	1989	The BFG	Head of the Army (voice)	64

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Bentley	35
2	1955	Dixon of Dock Green	Mr. Noakes	53
3	1955	Dixon of Dock Green	Mr. Briggs	53
4	1955	Dixon of Dock Green	Mac	53
5	1955	Dixon of Dock Green	Harry Bates	53
6	1955	Dixon of Dock Green	Joe Magnus	53
7	1955	Dixon of Dock Green	Charles Devenish	53
8	1955	Dixon of Dock Green	Victor Dowson	53
9	1955	Dixon of Dock Green	Colonel	53
10	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Count de Waldern	61
11	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Tybalt	61
12	1956	The Adventures of Sir Lancelot		65
13	1956	The Buccaneers	Rafton	55
14	1958	Ivanhoe	Rand the Goldsmith	63
15	1959	No Hiding Place		37
16	1960	Maigret	Dr. Pardon	69
17	1960	Coronation Street	Colonel Cantrill	53
18	1960	The Cheaters	Harry Tyler	0
19	1960	The Cheaters	Jefford	0
20	1960	The Cheaters	Mansion	0
21	1961	Ghost Squad		50
22	1964	Sherlock Holmes	Sir James Damery	64
23	1964	Sherlock Holmes	Sir Charles Baskerville	64
24	1964	The Wednesday Play	First Committee Member	45
25	1965	United!		0
26	1969	The Main Chance	Major Dibbyn	77
27	1969	Hadleigh	Lord Cranford	55
28	1970	The Goodies		75
29	1970	The Goodies	Chairman of the British Olympic Committee	75
30	1971	Bless This House	Group Captain	74
31	1972	Are You Being Served?	Angler	72
32	1972	Sykes	Lord Plunket-Taylor	64
33	1975	Fawlty Towers	Major Gowen	83
34	1976	The New Avengers		69
35	1976	Mike Yarwood In Persons		70
36	1979	To the Manor Born	Hartley	69
37	1979	Terry and June	Colonel Culpepper	62
38	1979	Terry and June	Sir Arthur Forster-Carter	62
39	1979	Kelly Monteith		60
40	1981	That's My Boy		61
41	1984	Fresh Fields	Guy Penrose	67