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.
The Flight of the Phoenix
(Sergeant Watson)
The Wild Geese
(Sgt. Jock McTaggart)
In Search of the Castaways
(Guard at Dockyard Gate)
Swallows and Amazons
(Uncle Jim)
The Willows in Winter
(Chief Judge)
The V.I.P.s
(Joslin)
Fathom
(Col. Douglas Campbell, Chief of HADES)
In the Secret State
(Barnaby Tucker)
Obituaries
(Timothy Apcar)
The Whisperers
(Charlie Ross)
The Killing of Sister George
(Leo Lockhart)
Girl in the Headlines
(Sergeant Saunders)
Percy's Progress
(Bleeker)
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
(Tom Hutchinson)
Come Play with Me
(Slasher)
There Was a Crooked Man
(Gen. Cummins)
Black Ice
Code 7, Victim 5
(Inspector Dickie Lean)
Sinful Davey
(MacNab)
Ooh...You Are Awful
(Reggie Campbell Peek)
Crooks in Cloisters
(Walter Dodd)
The Wood Demon
(Serbryakov)
The Hellions
(Frank)
The Punch and Judy Man
(Mayor Palmer)
Ghosts
(Engstrand)
Hardcore
(Marty)
Rentadick
(Major Upton)
The Ginger Man
The Beauty Jungle
(Walter Carey)
Sebastian
(Toby)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Sundowners
(Ocker)
Oxford
(Geoffrey)
The Blackheath Poisonings
(Doctor Porter)
The Brahmin Widow
(Major-General Peter Howard)
Murder on the Bluebell Line
(Dr Watson)
Too Late the Hero
(Private Campbell)
The Bass Player and the Blonde
(Charlie)
Trail of the Pink Panther
(Dr. Longet)
Don't Bother to Knock
(Fred)
The Counterfeit Constable
(Sergent Timothy Reagan)
The Pot Carriers
(Red Band)
The Fifty-Seventh Saturday
(Mr. McCarthy)
Daylight Robbery
Luther
(Tetzel)
Absolute Beginners
(Amberley Drove)
Scandal
(Justice Marshall)
Heavy Weather
(Sir Gregory Parsloe)
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
(Joseph C)
Let Him Have It
(Niven's Judge)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
(Donald Parks)
A Bit of a Lift
(Alec)
Private Potter
(Doctor)
Pygmalion
Tangiers
(Jenkins)
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
(George (segment "Wrath"))
Pygmalion
(Colonel Pickering)
The Long and the Short and the Tall
(L / Cpl. Macleish)
The Best of Enemies
(Perfect)
Fallen Angels
(Willy Banbury)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Flute)
Doctor Who
(Joseph C.)
Taggart
Star Maidens
The Sweeney
(Titus Oates)
Minder
(Albert Goddard)
Out of This World
Lovejoy
(Drummer)
Virtual Murder
Brideshead Revisited
(Red-Haired Man)
No Hiding Place
Fortunes of War
Lovejoy
(Michael Edwards)
BBC Play of the Month
(Serebryakov)
The Famous Five
(Mr Barling)
Life Without George
Spooner's Patch
(Inspector Spooner)
Minder
(Self-Inflicted Sid)
Melissa
(Felix Hepburn)
Follow Me...
(Sid Dawes)
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
(Horrocks)
The Play on One
(Apcar)
The Blackheath Poisonings
(Doctor Porter)
The Comic Strip Presents...
(Geoffrey)
The Bass Player and the Blonde
(Charlie)
Armchair Theatre
BBC Play of the Month
(Squire)
BBC Play of the Month
(Col. Pickering)
The Misfit
(Basil Allenby-Johnson)
Festival
(Tom Broadbent)
Pennies from Heaven
(Major Archibald Paxville)
Sword of Honour
(Apthorpe)