Ronald fraser actor biography eric closer

by Pete Stampede

In fine form here as Sir Horace, Ronald Fraser was a junior member of the trail-blazing, hard-drinking group of British actors who came to prominence in the late 50's and early 60's&#;the Burtons, Harrises and O'Toole's, all of whom he acted with at some stage.

Unlike them, he was more suited to character roles than leads&#;after all, he once described himself as "a decaying old thing resembling a porcupine". Ronnie&#;as he was known to everyone in show business, if never billed as such on screen&#;Fraser was required casting in British war films, starting with The Long and the Short and the Tall ().

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He extended slightly into Hollywood, in Robert Aldrich's The Flight of the Phoenix (). Again for Aldrich, he was excellent as a nasty Scottish platoon member in Too Late the Hero () with Michael Caine, a film I know off by heart and have seen more times than is really healthy.

In , Fraser starred in a well-remembered but never