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.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1930-04-11
  • event Death Date 1997-03-13
  • school Known for: Acting
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  • info Birth Place Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, UK
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7.2

The Flight of the Phoenix

1965-12-15

6.9

The Wild Geese

1978-06-28

6.4

In Search of the Castaways

1962-12-01

7.6

Swallows and Amazons

1974-06-01

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The Willows in Winter

1996-12-26

6.2

The V.I.P.s

1963-09-01

6.1

Fathom

1967-08-25

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In the Secret State

1985-03-10

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Obituaries

1990-08-16

6.4

The Whisperers

1967-07-18

6.4

The Killing of Sister George

1968-09-01

5.8

Girl in the Headlines

1963-11-15

3.6

Percy's Progress

1974-08-01

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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

1970-11-12

4.7

Come Play with Me

1977-04-28

6.1

There Was a Crooked Man

1960-08-31

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Black Ice

1957-12-12

4.6

Code 7, Victim 5

1964-07-10

5.5

Sinful Davey

1969-02-10

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Ooh...You Are Awful

1972-12-01

5.4

Crooks in Cloisters

1964-01-01

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The Wood Demon

1974-11-17

6.1

The Hellions

1961-11-27

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The Punch and Judy Man

1963-04-08

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Ghosts

1977-11-11

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Hardcore

1977-03-17

4.1

Rentadick

1972-12-31

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The Ginger Man

1962-01-01

5.3

The Beauty Jungle

1964-08-25

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Sebastian

1968-01-24

5.7

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

1993-04-23

6.7

The Sundowners

1960-12-08

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Oxford

1990-02-22

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The Blackheath Poisonings

1992-12-07

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The Brahmin Widow

1968-04-08

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Murder on the Bluebell Line

1987-01-01

6.5

Too Late the Hero

1970-05-20

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The Bass Player and the Blonde

1977-06-14

5.2

Trail of the Pink Panther

1982-12-03

5.1

Don't Bother to Knock

1961-05-28

5.6

The Counterfeit Constable

1964-10-10

6.1

The Pot Carriers

1962-03-10

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The Fifty-Seventh Saturday

1968-07-03

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Daylight Robbery

1964-12-01

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Luther

1968-01-29

5.5

Absolute Beginners

1986-04-04

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Scandal

1989-03-03

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Heavy Weather

1995-12-24

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Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol

1988-11-16

6.6

Let Him Have It

1991-10-04

5.9

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom

1993-06-05

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A Bit of a Lift

1973-09-25

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Private Potter

1962-01-01

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Pygmalion

1973-12-16

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Tangiers

1985-01-01

4.9

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

1971-11-01

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Pygmalion

1981-12-27

6.9

The Long and the Short and the Tall

1961-02-28

6.9

The Best of Enemies

1961-10-26

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Fallen Angels

1974-07-18

7.9

Doctor Who

1963-11-23

6.3

Taggart

1983-09-06

7.8

The Sweeney

1975-01-02

3.2

Star Maidens

1976-09-08

6.8

Minder

1979-10-29

4.3

Out of This World

1962-06-30

7.3

Lovejoy

1986-01-10

6.5

Virtual Murder

1992-07-24

7.9

Brideshead Revisited

1981-10-12

3.7

No Hiding Place

1959-09-16

7.6

Pennies from Heaven

1978-03-07

6.4

Fortunes of War

1987-10-11

7.3

Lovejoy

1986-01-10

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The Misfit

1970-03-03

5

BBC Play of the Month

1965-10-19

7.2

The Famous Five

1978-07-03

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Life Without George

1987-03-12

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Spooner's Patch

1979-07-09

6.8

Minder

1979-10-29

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Melissa

1974-12-04

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Follow Me...

1977-06-26

7.3

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

1971-09-20

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The Play on One

1988-01-19

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The Blackheath Poisonings

1993-02-14

7.4

The Comic Strip Presents...

1982-11-02

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The Bass Player and the Blonde

1978-08-08

5.8

Armchair Theatre

1956-07-08