Bill Fraser
Acting
Biography
William Simpson Fraser was a Scottish actor known for his roles in television and film from 1938 to 1987, particularly for his character Snudge in the sitcoms "The Army Game" and "Bootsie and Snudge". He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance in 1986 for his role in the play "When We Are Married".
Born: June 5, 1908
Place of Birth: Perth, Scotland, UK
Known For
Comedians
Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring working-class comedians.
Doctor Who
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Rhubarb Rhubarb
During a game of golf between a police inspector and a vicar the inspector cheats by having a constable move his ball into favourable positions and the vicar's into hazardous ones. when the vicar discovers this he prays for divine intervention which turns the tables.
The Goodies
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.
The Professionals
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
Till Death Us Do Part
This English follows the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf, a reactionary working-class man who wields racist and anti-Socialist views. His long-suffering wife Else manages to keep things in control... for the most part. Their progressive daughter Rita lives with them, as does her Irish husband Mike, who, with an array of liberal worldviews, often quarrels with his father-in-law. It inspired the American show "All In The Family" and several other international variations on the same theme.
Hancock's Half Hour
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
Theatre 625
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
The Corn Is Green
A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius in him.
Charley Moon
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old school. Hearing that Charley has no job to go to when demobilized, Armytage suggests they team up as stage comics. Things are not easy; jobs are few and far between, and when they can be found they are in the tattiest of theatres, but Charley gains the experience he needs. They then decide to try their luck in London.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Mr. Casby
as Bert Fraser
as Sir Percy
as Bert Baxter
as Fucini, the Lawyer
as Commander Bill Pollock
as Mr. Porter
as General Grugger
as Eddie Waters
as The Squire
as Col. Summerville
as Murdoch
as Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham
as Gerald Jones
as Mr. Fleming
as Uncle George
as Mr. Granger
as Basil Bulstrode
as Sergeant Major Groping
as Sir Braggart de Bombast
as Prosperus Maximus
as Mr John Wilton
as Army Sergeant
as Edward Waite
as Arnold Makepeace
as Barnaby Bath
as Serjeant Buzzfuzz
as Inspector MacPherson
as Bookseller
as Mr Williams
as Boanerges
as Henry Firth
as Mr. Bartholemew
as Leslie Dunwoody
as Sergeant Major Dobbs
as The Shop Steward
as Port Commander
as Lt. Col. Svinin
as The Nabob
as General Grugger
as J. Mulligan
as Golfer (uncredited)
as Claude Snudge
as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
as Jeremy Bentham
as R.E. Sergeant
as Man at Bar (uncredited)
as Inspector Collins / Police Sergeant
as Mr. Powell (uncredited)
as Sergeant Major Claude Snudge
as Nixon
as Marber
as Joe Newton
as Pvt. Slee
as J. Montague Brown
as Smith, Hotel Clerk
as Band Leader
as Absalom (taxi driver)
as Constable J. Reed
as Sales Manager
as Bert Bentley (segment "Red Peppers")
as Oliver Cromwell
as Railway Porter (uncredited)
as Harris
as Maxie