Ronald Fraser
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 11, 1930
- Died
- March 13, 1997
- Birthplace
- Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
Filmography
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom 1999
as Donald Parks
The Willows in Winter 1996
as Chief Judge
Heavy Weather 1995
as Sir Gregory Parsloe
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1993
Actor
The Blackheath Poisonings 1992
as Doctor Porter
Let Him Have It 1991
as Niven's Judge
Obituaries 1990
as Timothy Apcar
Oxford 1990
as Geoffrey
Scandal 1989
as Justice Marshall
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol 1988
as Joseph C
- Murder on the Bluebell Line
Murder on the Bluebell Line 1987
as Dr Watson
Absolute Beginners 1986
as Amberley Drove
In the Secret State 1985
as Barnaby Tucker
Trail of the Pink Panther 1982
as Dr. Longet
- Tangiers
Tangiers 1982
as Jenkins
Pygmalion 1981
as Colonel Pickering
The Wild Geese 1978
as Sgt. Jock McTaggart
Ghosts 1977
as Engstrand
- The Bass Player and the Blonde
The Bass Player and the Blonde 1977
as Charlie
Come Play with Me 1977
as Slasher
Hardcore 1977
as Marty
Paper Tiger 1975
as Sergeant Forester
- A Man in the Zoo
A Man in the Zoo 1975
as Curator
The Wood Demon 1974
as Serbryakov
Percy's Progress 1974
as Bleeker
Fallen Angels 1974
as Willy Banbury
Swallows and Amazons 1974
as Uncle Jim
Pygmalion 1973
Actor
A Bit of a Lift 1973
as Alec
Rentadick 1972
as Major Upton
Ooh...You Are Awful 1972
as Reggie Campbell Peek
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins 1971
as George (segment "Wrath")
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer 1970
as Tom Hutchinson
Too Late the Hero 1970
as Private Campbell
Sinful Davey 1969
as MacNab
The Killing of Sister George 1968
as Leo Lockhart
- The Fifty-Seventh Saturday
The Fifty-Seventh Saturday 1968
as Mr. McCarthy
- The Brahmin Widow
The Brahmin Widow 1968
as Major-General Peter Howard
Luther 1968
as Tetzel
Sebastian 1968
as Toby
Fathom 1967
as Col. Douglas Campbell, Chief of HADES
The Whisperers 1967
as Charlie Ross
The Flight of the Phoenix 1965
as Sergeant Watson
Daylight Robbery 1964
as Taxi driver
The Counterfeit Constable 1964
as Sergent Timothy Reagan
The Beauty Jungle 1964
as Walter Carey
Code 7, Victim 5 1964
as Inspector Dickie Lean
Crooks in Cloisters 1964
as Walter Dodd
Girl in the Headlines 1963
as Sergeant Saunders
The V.I.P.s 1963
as Joslin
The Punch and Judy Man 1963
as Mayor Palmer
In Search of the Castaways 1962
as Guard at Dockyard Gate
The Pot Carriers 1962
as Red Band
Private Potter 1962
as Doctor
- The Ginger Man
The Ginger Man 1962
Actor
The Hellions 1961
as Frank
The Best of Enemies 1961
as Perfect
Don't Bother to Knock 1961
as Fred
The Long and the Short and the Tall 1961
as L / Cpl. Macleish
The Sundowners 1960
as Ocker
There Was a Crooked Man 1960
as Gen. Cummins
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1958
as Flute
- Black Ice
Black Ice 1957
as Tom
Credits from TMDB.