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 (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: Acting

Born: Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, UK, 1930-04-11

Died: 1997-03-13

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	Black Ice		0
2	1960	There Was a Crooked Man	Gen. Cummins	61
3	1960	The Sundowners	Ocker	67
4	1961	The Long and the Short and the Tall	L / Cpl. Macleish	68
5	1961	Don't Bother to Knock	Fred	51
6	1961	The Best of Enemies	Perfect	69
7	1961	The Hellions	Frank	61
8	1962	The Ginger Man		0
9	1962	Private Potter	Doctor	20
10	1962	The Pot Carriers	Red Band	61
11	1962	In Search of the Castaways	Guard at Dockyard Gate	64
12	1963	The Punch and Judy Man	Mayor Palmer	78
13	1963	The V.I.P.s	Joslin	61
14	1963	Girl in the Headlines	Sergeant Saunders	58
15	1964	Crooks in Cloisters	Walter Dodd	54
16	1964	Code 7, Victim 5	Inspector Dickie Lean	46
17	1964	The Beauty Jungle	Walter Carey	52
18	1964	The Counterfeit Constable	Sergent Timothy Reagan	56
19	1964	Daylight Robbery		0
20	1965	The Flight of the Phoenix	Sergeant Watson	72
21	1967	The Whisperers	Charlie Ross	64
22	1967	Fathom	Col. Douglas Campbell, Chief of HADES	61
23	1968	Sebastian	Toby	60
24	1968	Luther	Tetzel	0
25	1968	The Brahmin Widow	Major-General Peter Howard	0
26	1968	The Fifty-Seventh Saturday	Mr. McCarthy	40
27	1968	The Killing of Sister George	Leo Lockhart	62
28	1969	Sinful Davey	MacNab	55
29	1970	Too Late the Hero	Private Campbell	65
30	1970	The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer	Tom Hutchinson	61
31	1971	The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins	George (segment "Wrath")	49
32	1972	Ooh...You Are Awful	Reggie Campbell Peek	46
33	1972	Rentadick	Major Upton	41
34	1973	A Bit of a Lift	Alec	80
35	1973	Pygmalion		100
36	1974	Swallows and Amazons	Uncle Jim	77
37	1974	Fallen Angels	Willy Banbury	20
38	1974	Percy's Progress	Bleeker	36
39	1974	The Wood Demon	Serbryakov	0
40	1977	Hardcore	Marty	33
41	1977	Come Play with Me	Slasher	47
42	1977	The Bass Player and the Blonde	Charlie	0
43	1977	Ghosts	Engstrand	0
44	1978	The Wild Geese	Sgt. Jock McTaggart	68
45	1981	Pygmalion	Colonel Pickering	0
46	1982	Trail of the Pink Panther	Dr. Longet	52
47	1985	Tangiers	Jenkins	50
48	1985	In the Secret State	Barnaby Tucker	0
49	1986	Absolute Beginners	Amberley Drove	55
50	1987	Murder on the Bluebell Line	Dr Watson	0
51	1988	Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol	Joseph C	80
52	1989	Scandal	Justice Marshall	59
53	1990	Oxford	Geoffrey	0
54	1990	Obituaries	Timothy Apcar	0
55	1991	Let Him Have It	Niven's Judge	66
56	1992	The Blackheath Poisonings	Doctor Porter	0
57	1993	The Mystery of Edwin Drood		57
58	1993	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom	Donald Parks	59
59	1995	Heavy Weather	Sir Gregory Parsloe	75
60	1996	The Willows in Winter	Chief Judge	70

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Armchair Theatre		58
2	1959	No Hiding Place		37
3	1962	Out of This World		43
4	1963	Doctor Who	Joseph C.	79
5	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Serebryakov	50
6	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Squire	50
7	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Col. Pickering	50
8	1970	The Misfit	Basil Allenby-Johnson	0
9	1971	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Horrocks	73
10	1974	Melissa	Felix Hepburn	50
11	1975	The Sweeney	Titus Oates	77
12	1976	Star Maidens		32
13	1977	Follow Me...	Sid Dawes	50
14	1978	Pennies from Heaven	Major Archibald Paxville	76
15	1978	The Famous Five	Mr Barling	72
16	1978	The Bass Player and the Blonde	Charlie	0
17	1979	Spooner's Patch	Inspector Spooner	0
18	1979	Minder	Albert Goddard	68
19	1979	Minder	Self-Inflicted Sid	68
20	1981	Brideshead Revisited	Red-Haired Man	79
21	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Geoffrey	74
22	1983	Taggart		63
23	1986	Lovejoy	Drummer	73
24	1986	Lovejoy	Michael Edwards	73
25	1987	Life Without George		70
26	1987	Fortunes of War		64
27	1988	The Play on One	Apcar	60
28	1992	Virtual Murder		65
29	1993	The Blackheath Poisonings	Doctor Porter	60

Ronald Fraser

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