Ronald Fraser

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
Birthday: 1930-04-11
Place of Birth: Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, UK
Also Known As: Ronald Gordon Fraser

Movies List of Ronald Fraser

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The Wild Geese

1978 Movie
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Swallows and Amazons

1974 Movie
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The Willows in Winter

1996 Movie
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The V.I.P.s

1963 Movie
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Fathom

1967 Movie
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In the Secret State

1985 Movie
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Obituaries

1990 Movie
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The Whisperers

1967 Movie
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Girl in the Headlines

1963 Movie
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Percy's Progress

1974 Movie
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Come Play with Me

1977 Movie
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Black Ice

1957 Movie
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Code 7, Victim 5

1964 Movie
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Sinful Davey

1969 Movie
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Ooh...You Are Awful

1972 Movie
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Crooks in Cloisters

1964 Movie
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The Wood Demon

1974 Movie
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The Hellions

1961 Movie
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Ghosts

1977 Movie
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Hardcore

1977 Movie
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Rentadick

1972 Movie
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The Ginger Man

1962 Movie
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The Beauty Jungle

1964 Movie
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Sebastian

1968 Movie
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The Sundowners

1960 Movie
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Oxford

1990 Movie
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The Brahmin Widow

1968 Movie
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Too Late the Hero

1970 Movie
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Don't Bother to Knock

1961 Movie
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The Pot Carriers

1962 Movie
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Daylight Robbery

1964 Movie
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Luther

1968 Movie
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Absolute Beginners

1986 Movie
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Scandal

1989 Movie
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Heavy Weather

1995 Movie
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Let Him Have It

1991 Movie
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A Bit of a Lift

1973 Movie
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Private Potter

1962 Movie
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Pygmalion

1973 Movie
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Tangiers

1985 Movie
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Pygmalion

1981 Movie
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The Best of Enemies

1961 Movie
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Fallen Angels

1974 Movie