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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 Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
as Donald Parks

The Willows in Winter
as Chief Judge

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Sir Richard Gregory

Madson
as Walter Gardner

Heavy Weather
as Sir Gregory Parsloe
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Blackheath Poisonings
as Doctor Porter

The Blackheath Poisonings
as Doctor Porter

Virtual Murder
as Van Helsing

Let Him Have It
as Niven's Judge

Obituaries
as Timothy Apcar

Oxford
as Geoffrey

Scandal
as Justice Marshall

Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
as Joseph C

The Play on One
as Timothy Apcar

Fortunes of War
as Commander Sheppy
Murder on the Bluebell Line
as Dr Watson
Life Without George

Absolute Beginners
as Amberley Drove

Lovejoy
as Drummer

In the Secret State
as Barnaby Tucker

Taggart

Trail of the Pink Panther
as Dr. Longet

The Comic Strip Presents...
as Geoffrey
Tangiers
as Jenkins

Pygmalion
as Colonel Pickering
Celebrity Playhouse
as Colonel Pickering

Minder
as Albert Goddard

Spooner's Patch
as DI Spooner
The Bass Player and the Blonde
as Charlie

The Famous Five
as Mr Barling

The Wild Geese
as Sgt. Jock McTaggart

Pennies from Heaven
as Major Archibald Paxville

Ghosts
as Engstrand

Follow Me...
as Sid Dawes
The Bass Player and the Blonde
as Charlie

Come Play with Me
as Slasher

Hardcore
as Marty

Star Maidens
as Kipple
A Man in the Zoo
as Curator

The Sweeney
as Titus Oates

Melissa
as Felix Hepburn

The Wood Demon
as Serbryakov

Percy's Progress
as Bleeker

Fallen Angels
as Willy Banbury

Swallows and Amazons
as Uncle Jim
Dial M for Murder
as Norman Nugent

Pygmalion

A Bit of a Lift
as Alec
Between the Wars
as Mr. Loveday

Rentadick
as Major Upton

Ooh...You Are Awful
as Reggie Campbell Peek

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
as George (segment "Wrath")

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Horrocks

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
as Tom Hutchinson

Too Late the Hero
as Private Campbell

The Misfit
as Basil Allenby-Johnson

Sinful Davey
as MacNab

The Killing of Sister George
as Leo Lockhart
The Fifty-Seventh Saturday
as Mr. McCarthy