Ronald Fraser (actor)

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.

Background

Ronald Fraser was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, He was further educated in Scotland and did national service as a lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders. 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),

He appeared in numerous television roles from 1954, and in nearly 50 films from 1957, mostly in comedies.