Ronald Pickup

Pickup was born in Chester, England, the son of Daisy (née Williams) and Eric Pickup, who was a lecturer.[1] Pickup was educated at The King's School, Chester, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, and became an Associate Member of RADA. His television work began with an episode during the second series of Doctor Who in 1964, for which he was paid £30. Pickup worked with Laurence Olivier at the Royal National Theatre, most notably in Three Sisters and Long Day's Journey Into Night. In 1973, he starred in the BBC drama series The Dragon's Opponent, playing a World War II bomb disposal expert and also appeared in The Day of the Jackal. He played Lt. Harford in Zulu Dawn in 1979, portrayed Igor Stravinsky in Nijinsky in 1980, Prince John in Ivanhoe in 1982, and in 1983 he appeared opposite Penelope Keith in Moving, in 1988 in the BBC miniseries The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988 TV Serial) as the voice of Aslan, and in 1990 he starred in the short lived sit-com, Not with a Bang. More modern roles have included parts in Hornblower, Hustle, Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders, Waking the Dead, The Bill, Silent Witness, Sherlock Holmes, and Inspector Morse. He is also a regular character in the BBC sitcom The Worst Week of My Life. His most recent appearance was in Holby City as Lord Charles Byrne. Pickup gave a highly acclaimed performance as a decayed Russian aristocrat in the BBC series Fortunes of War, based on a work by Olivia Manning. He also provided the voice for Aslan in the BBC's adaptation of the Chronicles of Narnia and starred opposite Judi Dench in the 1989 Channel 4 serial Behaving Badly. He is also an accomplished stage actor. He was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role of 1997 for his performance in Amy's View. Pickup had the starring role as composer Giuseppe Verdi in the acclaimed The Life of Verdi, written and directed by Renato Castellani. In 2005, he had a supporting role in the family-based film, The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby. Between March and August 2009, he starred as Lucky in Sean Mathias' production of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett opposite Sir Ian McKellen (Estragon), Patrick Stewart (Vladimir) and also Simon Callow (Pozzo). The tour opened in Malvern before travelling to Milton Keynes, Brighton, Bath, Norwich, Edinburgh and Newcastle; its run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket was extended due to demand. In February 2010 he also appeared as 'Pegleg' in the BBC's period drama Lark Rise to Candleford. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ronald Pickup, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Chester, England, UK, 1940-06-07

Died: 2021-02-25

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror	Physician	63
2	1967	Much Ado About Nothing	Don Pedro	55
3	1967	Romeo and Juliet	Mercutio	0
4	1970	Three Sisters	Baron Tusenbach	38
5	1973	Long Day's Journey Into Night	Edmund Tyrone	70
6	1973	The Day of the Jackal	The Forger	75
7	1974	All Good Men		0
8	1974	Mahler	Nick	67
9	1974	Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill	Lord Randolph Churchill	80
10	1975	King Lear	Edgar	0
11	1975	The Philanthropist	Philip	0
12	1977	Joseph Andrews	Mr. Wilson	47
13	1977	...but the clouds...		0
14	1977	Ghost Trio		0
15	1978	For Tea on Sunday	Ian	0
16	1978	The Thirty Nine Steps	Bayliss	67
17	1979	Henry VIII	Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury	65
18	1979	Zulu Dawn	Lt. Harford	60
19	1979	In England's Green and Pleasant Land	Norman Reynolds	0
20	1980	Nijinsky	Igor Stravinsky	50
21	1982	Verdi	Giuseppe Verdi	0
22	1982	Ivanhoe	Prince John	63
23	1982	The Letter	Howard Joyce	35
24	1983	Never Say Never Again	Elliott	61
25	1983	The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura	George Orwell	0
26	1984	Puccini	Giulio Ricordi	10
27	1984	Pope John Paul II	Jan Tyranowski	69
28	1984	Camille	Jean	56
29	1985	Eleni	Spiro	59
30	1986	The Mission	Hontar	74
31	1986	Ladies' Night	James Tripp	0
32	1987	The Fourth Protocol	Wynne-Evans	63
33	1988	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Barrymore	71
34	1988	Testimony	Marshall Tukhachevsky	45
35	1988	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe	Aslan (voice)	60
36	1989	Danny the Champion of the World	Captain Lancaster	62
37	1989	A Dry White Season	Louw	67
38	1989	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	Aslan (voice)	54
39	1990	Jekyll & Hyde	Jeffrey Utterson, Esquire	58
40	1990	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair	Aslan (voice)	61
41	1991	The War That Never Ends	Diodotus	10
42	1991	Journey of Honor	Capt. Crawford	49
43	1991	A Murder of Quality	Felix D'Arcy	55
44	1991	Absolute Hell	Siegfried Shrager	57
45	1992	The Golden Years		0
46	1992	My Friend Walter	Sir Walter Raleigh	0
47	1993	Bethune: The Making of a Hero	Alan Coleman	53
48	1994	In The Cold Light Of Day	Morris	0
49	1994	Message for Posterity	Richard Browning	0
50	1994	Milner	Jocelyn Fry	60
51	1995	Henry IV	Henry IV	80
52	1995	A Very Open Prison	Brian Silcott	100
53	1996	Der Blinde	Dr. Bartnik	40
54	1996	Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told	Narrator	0
55	1997	Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis	Percy Stone	41
56	1997	Lolita	Young Humbert's Father	71
57	1999	Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil	Don Massaredo	72
58	2000	Breathtaking	Dr. Maclaren	30
59	2004	Secret Passage	Da Monte	25
60	2004	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea	Monsieur Moitessier	49
61	2004	Benefit to Mankind	Professor Quentin Tapscott	0
62	2004	Evilenko	Aron Richter	57
63	2005	Cherished	Professor Sir Roy Meadow	70
64	2005	A Life in Suitcases	Monsieur Moitessier	53
65	2005	The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby	Cecil Johnson	54
66	2007	The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey	William McDowell	56
67	2008	Dark Floors	Tobias	49
68	2010	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	King Sharaman	63
69	2012	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Norman Cousins	69
70		Schadenfreude	The Gambler	0
71	2005	Supernova	Dr. Malcolm Handey	43
72	2009	Theatreland	Himself	0
73	2014	A Little Place Off the Edgware Road	Bearded Man	0
74	2015	The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Norman Cousins	64
75	2016	The Have-Nots	Bentham	53
76	2017	The Time of Their Lives	Frank	51
77	2017	Stealing Silver	Udo	72
78	2017	Darkest Hour	Neville Chamberlain	74
79	2018	The Happy Prince	Judge	63
80	2021	End of Term	Damian Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Jean	86
2	1963	Doctor Who	Physician	79
3	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Mercutio	50
4	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Ariel	50
5	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Brother Martin Ladvenu	50
6	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Edgar	50
7	1970	Play for Today	Richard Massingham	63
8	1974	Father Brown		66
9	1974	Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill	Randolph Churchill	63
10	1975	The Fight Against Slavery	William Pitt	80
11	1977	BBC2 Play of the Week	Ian	70
12	1977	BBC2 Play of the Week	Norman Reynolds	70
13	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury	60
14	1981	Bergerac	Sir Antony Villiers	67
15	1982	Verdi	Giuseppe Verdi	50
16	1984	Albert Einstein	Albert Einstein	0
17	1984	Sherlock Holmes	Barrymore	81
18	1985	Screen Two	Brian Silcott	68
19	1985	Moving		90
20	1986	Lovejoy	Edwin Felt	73
21	1986	Matlock	Sir Alec Moore	71
22	1986	Casualty	Martin / Reginald Freeborn	61
23	1986	Unnatural Causes	James Tripp	55
24	1987	Inspector Morse	Ian Matthews	78
25	1987	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Chief Inspector Moore	62
26	1987	Fortunes of War	Prince Yakimov	64
27	1988	The Chronicles of Narnia	Aslan (voice)	74
28	1989	Behaving Badly		30
29	1990	El C.I.D.	Jack	0
30	1990	Not with a Bang	Brian Appleyard	60
31	1991	Performance	King Henry IV	60
32	1991	Performance	Siegfried Shrager	60
33	1991	Performance	Richard Browning	60
34	1992	A Time to Dance	Andrew Powell	35
35	1994	The Rector's Wife	Daniel Byrne	80
36	1994	The Riff Raff Element	Roger Tundish	57
37	1995	Black Hearts in Battersea	Duke Of Battersea	0
38	1996	Hetty Wainthropp Investigates	Lester Rose	72
39	1996	Silent Witness		76
40	1997	Ivanhoe	Waldemar Fitzurse	69
41	1997	Midsomer Murders	Rupert Smythe-Webster	75
42	1997	Midsomer Murders	Ernest Balliol	75
43	1998	Hornblower	Don Massaredo	78
44	2001	Waking the Dead	Charles Sutton	72
45	2001	Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes	Sir John Starr	78
46	2002	The Jury	Jeffrey Livingstone	64
47	2002	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Sir Stuart Stinhurst	71
48	2002	Foyle's War	Sir Giles Messinger	79
49	2003	Cambridge Spies	Colonel Winter	63
50	2004	Sea of Souls	Alex Galt	76
51	2004	Hustle	Harry Holmes	76
52	2004	The Worst Week of My Life	Fraser	81
53	2004	Feather Boy	Ernest Sorrel	75
54	2008	Lark Rise to Candleford		83
55	2010	Downton Abbey	Sir Michael Reresby	81
56	2011	Vera	Mr. Kipford	74
57	2012	Pramface		73
58	2013	Atlantis	Orpheus	64
59	2016	The Crown	Archbishop of Canterbury	82

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