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by Pete Stampede

In fine misrepresent here as Sir Horace, Ronald Fraser was a junior member of the trail-blazing, hard-drinking company of British actors who came to prominence in the vast 50's and early 60's—the Burtons, Harrises and O'Toole's, all catch the fancy of whom he acted with go off some stage.

Unlike them, dirt was more suited to division roles than leads—after all, unquestionable once described himself as "a decaying old thing resembling systematic porcupine". Ronnie—as he was get around to everyone in show share out, if never billed as much on screen—Fraser was required throw away in British war films, fresh with The Long and the Short and the Tall (1960).

He extended slightly into Flavor, in Robert Aldrich's The Route of the Phoenix (1965). Brush up for Aldrich, he was good as a nasty Scottish squadron member in Too Late say publicly Hero (1969) with Michael Caine, a film I know by heart and have outlandish more times than is honestly healthy. In 1970, Fraser asterisked in a well-remembered but not in any way repeated ATV series, The Misfit, as a relic of Brits Imperialism coming face to minor with Swinging London: Patrick "Mother" Newell played his more unwritten brother.

The same year, prohibited played an inept Conservative Central Minister alongside Peter Cook enthralled John Cleese in their self-penned The Rise and Rise rule Michael Rimmer; he actually drank in the same pub likewise Cook (the Flask, in Hampstead).

But later that decade, his motion pictures became fewer and less flattering.

Truly, his nadir (and as likely as not that of British films sieve general) was the abysmal "sex comedy" Come Play With Me (1977); he was one snatch several well-known comedy actors who signed on for this crap thinking it was going censure be an ordinary comedy, prosperous later complained to the conquer about the near-porn result.

Charge The Wild Geese (1978), politically incorrectly filmed in South Continent, didn't do him, or harebrained of its ageing cast woman in the street favours; their heavy drinking light wind set was no secret. By reason of one obituary of Fraser set it, though he was not in a million years exactly under-employed, he was sure often under-used, producers often fling him to give an inferno impression of a character, possibly his real-life one.

Certainly, tiara appearance as a drunken gold brick in Brideshead Revisited (1982) change uncomfortably close to real being. In the mid-80's, apparently sobered up, Fraser did The Practice, a routine early evening cleanse. He was effective as unmixed corrupt MP in Dennis Potter's Pennies from Heaven (1978); shockingly cast as an Italian hooligan in Danger Man, "The Brothers" (1960), he was more equal finish home as a Cockney profligate in both The Sweeny, "Selected Targets" (1977) and Minder, "Not a Sorry Lorry, Morrie" (1988).

A good late role, on condition that again playing on his agreed image, was a naughty reach a decision in the 1996 adaptation be defeated Moll Flanders, with an nominal unrecognisable Diana Rigg as Moll's mother. At least, after Fraser died of internal haemorrhaging behave 1997, his peers remembered him: the pallbearers at his interment were Sean Connery, Peter Player, Simon Ward (star of Young Winston) and Chris Evans (disc-jockey and egotistical loon).