Acting · Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, UK · Born April 11, 1930
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.
MovieThe Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
1999
as Donald Parks
MovieThe Willows in Winter
1996
as Chief Judge
TVThe Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996
as Sir Richard Gregory
TVMadson
1996
as Walter Gardner
MovieHeavy Weather
1995
as Sir Gregory Parsloe
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1993
TVThe Blackheath Poisonings
1993
as Doctor Porter
MovieThe Blackheath Poisonings
1992
as Doctor Porter
TVVirtual Murder
1992
as Van Helsing
MovieLet Him Have It
1991
as Niven's Judge
MovieObituaries
1990
as Timothy Apcar
MovieOxford
1990
as Geoffrey
MovieScandal
1989
as Justice Marshall
MovieDoctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
1988
as Joseph C
TVThe Play on One
1988
as Timothy Apcar
TVFortunes of War
1987
as Commander Sheppy
Murder on the Bluebell Line
1987
as Dr Watson
Life Without George
1987
MovieAbsolute Beginners
1986
as Amberley Drove
TVLovejoy
1986
as Drummer
MovieIn the Secret State
1985
as Barnaby Tucker
TVTaggart
1983
MovieTrail of the Pink Panther
1982
as Dr. Longet
TVThe Comic Strip Presents...
1982
as Geoffrey
Tangiers
1982
as Jenkins
MoviePygmalion
1981
as Colonel Pickering
Celebrity Playhouse
1981
as Colonel Pickering
TVMinder
1979
as Albert Goddard
TVSpooner's Patch
1979
as DI Spooner
The Bass Player and the Blonde
1978
as Charlie
TVThe Famous Five
1978
as Mr Barling
MovieThe Wild Geese
1978
as Sgt. Jock McTaggart
TVPennies from Heaven
1978
as Major Archibald Paxville
MovieGhosts
1977
as Engstrand
TVFollow Me...
1977
as Sid Dawes
The Bass Player and the Blonde
1977
as Charlie
MovieCome Play with Me
1977
as Slasher
MovieHardcore
1977
as Marty
TVStar Maidens
1976
as Kipple
A Man in the Zoo
1975
as Curator
TVThe Sweeney
1975
as Titus Oates
TVMelissa
1974
as Felix Hepburn
MovieThe Wood Demon
1974
as Serbryakov
MoviePercy's Progress
1974
as Bleeker
MovieFallen Angels
1974
as Willy Banbury
MovieSwallows and Amazons
1974
as Uncle Jim
Dial M for Murder
1974
as Norman Nugent
MoviePygmalion
1973
MovieA Bit of a Lift
1973
as Alec
Between the Wars
1973
as Mr. Loveday
MovieRentadick
1972
as Major Upton
MovieOoh...You Are Awful
1972
as Reggie Campbell Peek
MovieThe Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
1971
as George (segment "Wrath")
TVThe Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
as Horrocks
MovieThe Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970
as Tom Hutchinson
Conceptions of Murder
1970
as Alfred Rouse
MovieToo Late the Hero
1970
as Private Campbell
TVThe Misfit
1970
as Basil Allenby-Johnson
MovieSinful Davey
1969
as MacNab
MovieThe Killing of Sister George
1968
as Leo Lockhart
The Fifty-Seventh Saturday
1968
as Mr. McCarthy
The Brahmin Widow
1968
as Major-General Peter Howard
MovieLuther
1968
as Tetzel
MovieSebastian
1968
as Toby
TVITV Playhouse
1967
as Jonathan Wild
MovieFathom
1967
as Col. Douglas Campbell, Chief of HADES
MovieThe Whisperers
1967
as Charlie Ross
TVHalf Hour Story
1967
as Mr. McCarthy
Sword of Honour
1967
as Apthorpe
MovieThe Flight of the Phoenix
1965
as Sergeant Watson
TVBBC Play of the Month
1965
as Serebryakov
MovieDaylight Robbery
1964
as Taxi driver
MovieThe Counterfeit Constable
1964
as Sergent Timothy Reagan
MovieThe Beauty Jungle
1964
as Walter Carey
MovieCode 7, Victim 5
1964
as Inspector Dickie Lean
TVTheatre 625
1964
as Apthorpe
MovieCrooks in Cloisters
1964
as Walter Dodd
TVDoctor Who
1963
as Joseph C.
MovieGirl in the Headlines
1963
as Sergeant Saunders
Festival
1963
as Tom Broadbent
MovieThe V.I.P.s
1963
as Joslin
MovieThe Punch and Judy Man
1963
as Mayor Palmer
MovieIn Search of the Castaways
1962
as Guard at Dockyard Gate
TVOut of This World
1962
as Oscar Raebone
MovieThe Pot Carriers
1962
as Red Band
The Ginger Man
1962
MoviePrivate Potter
1962
as Doctor
MovieThe Hellions
1961
as Frank
MovieThe Best of Enemies
1961
as Perfect
MovieDon't Bother to Knock
1961
as Fred
MovieThe Long and the Short and the Tall
1961
as L / Cpl. Macleish
MovieThe Sundowners
1960
as Ocker
TVDanger Man
1960
as Guiseppe
MovieThere Was a Crooked Man
1960
as Gen. Cummins
TVNo Hiding Place
1959
MovieA Midsummer Night's Dream
1958
as Flute
Black Ice
1957
as Tom
TVArmchair Theatre
1956
TVSunday Night Theatre
1950
as Flute
