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Bill Fraser is a Actor British born on 5 june 1908 at Perth (United-kingdom)

Bill Fraser

Bill Fraser
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Birth name William Simpson Fraser
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 5 june 1908 at Perth (United-kingdom)
Death 5 september 1987 (at 79 years) at Hertfordshire (United-kingdom)
Awards Laurence Olivier Award

William Simpson "Bill" Fraser (5 June 1908 – 9 September 1987) was a Scottish actor who appeared on stage, screen and television for many years. In 1986 he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for his stage role in the play When We Are Married.

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Eric Sykes
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Samuel John Kydd
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Leslie Phillips
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Michael Carreras
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Joan Sims
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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Bill Fraser (45 films)

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Actor

Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit (1987)
, 6h
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Derek Jacobi, Joan Greenwood, Max Wall, Patricia Hayes, Alec Guinness, Miriam Margolyes
Roles Mr. Casby
Rating71% 3.591733.591733.591733.591733.59173
Le film est présenté en deux parties. Dans la première, sous-titrée "La faute à personne" (une allusion à un des titres auxquels avait pensé Dickens pour le roman), l'histoire est présentée en fonction du personnage d'Arthur Clennam. La seconde, sous-titrée "L'histoire de la petite Dorrit", reprend une grande partie des mêmes événements, mais cette fois selon le point de vue de l'héroïne.
Eye of the Needle
Eye of the Needle (1981)
, 1h52
Directed by Richard Marquand
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Romance
Themes Spy films, Radio, Political films
Actors Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Cazenove, Ian Bannen, Philip Martin Brown, George Belbin
Roles Mr. Porter
Rating70% 3.5452553.5452553.5452553.5452553.545255
A man calling himself Henry Faber is actually a German spy nicknamed "the Needle" because of his preferred method of assassination, the stiletto. He is a coldly calculating sociopath, emotionlessly focused on the task at hand, whether the task is to signal a U-boat or to gut a witness to avoid exposure.
Rhubarb Rhubarb
Rhubarb Rhubarb (1980)
, 28minutes
Directed by Eric Sykes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Jimmy Edwards, Eric Sykes, Bob Todd, Charlie Drake, Bill Fraser, Nicholas Bond-Owen
Rating65% 3.285293.285293.285293.285293.28529
A police inspector is so intent on winning a round of golf against a vicar, despite his lack of ability at the game, that he employs his constable to furtively disentangle his ball from the odd spots in which it usually comes to rest - while his opponent looks for help from a higher power...
The Corn Is Green
The Corn Is Green (1979)
, 1h33
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Films based on plays
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Anna Massey, Bill Fraser, Patricia Hayes, Toyah Willcox
Roles The Squire
Rating67% 3.3928753.3928753.3928753.3928753.392875
Middle-aged Lilly Moffatt (Katharine Hepburn) sets up a school in a Welsh coal mining town, despite the determined opposition of the local squire (Bill Fraser). Eventually, she considers giving up. Then she discovers a promising student Morgan Evans (Ian Saynor), a miner seemingly destined for a life of hard work and heavy drink. With renewed hope, she works hard to help him realise his potential.
Dead Cert
Dead Cert (1974)
, 1h39
Directed by Tony Richardson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors John Bindon, Judi Dench, Bill Fraser, Julian Glover, Ian Hogg, Michael Williams
Roles Uncle George
Rating49% 2.4792152.4792152.4792152.4792152.479215
A young jockey investigates on strange deadly accidents that involve his race horse.
Moments
Moments (1974)

Directed by Peter Crane
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Keith Michell, Angharad Rees, Bill Fraser, Donald Hewlett
Roles Mr. Fleming
Rating66% 3.343843.343843.343843.343843.34384
Love Thy Neighbour
Love Thy Neighbour (1973)
, 1h25
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Kate Williams, Bill Fraser, Charles Hyatt, Patricia Hayes
Roles Mr. Granger
Rating59% 2.9562252.9562252.9562252.9562252.956225
Eddie and Joan Booth live next door to Bill and Barbie Reynolds. Whilst Joan and Barbie are best friends as well as neighbours, Bill and Eddie are complete opposites in all things, including colour. Unbeknown to their husbands Joan and Barbie enter a Love Thy Neighbour competition to win a cruise, but are unsure how to get around the problem of their antagonistic husbands. To add to the problems Joan's Mother In Law is coming to stay, and Barbie has her Father In Law Coming from Trinidad. What will Bill and Eddie do when they realise their parents get on?
Up the Chastity Belt
Up the Chastity Belt (1972)
, 1h34
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Frankie Howerd, Graham Crowden, Bill Fraser, Norman Beaton, David Prowse, Roy Hudd
Roles Sir Braggart de Bombast
Rating51% 2.5972.5972.5972.5972.597
Howerd played dual roles as King Richard the Lionheart and cowardly peasant Lurkalot (his character in Up Pompeii was the slave Lurcio). The plot served as an excuse to serve up the usual collection of puns and double entendres that characterised most British film comedy in the 1970s, but did feature Eartha Kitt singing "A Knight for My Nights" and Hugh Paddick (of Julian and Sandy fame in the Round the Horne BBC radio series) as a notable Robin Hood, leader of a band of men who were camp homosexual rather than merry.
Up the Front
Up the Front (1972)
, 1h29
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, William Mervyn, Hermione Baddeley, Jonathan Cecil, Madeline Smith
Roles Groping
Rating45% 2.277992.277992.277992.277992.27799
Set during World War I, Lurk, a lowly servant in the household of Lord and Lady Twithampton (William Mervyn & Linda Gray), is hypnotised by The Great Vincento (Stanley Holloway) and travels to the Western Front to 'save England'. Lurk is inspired to bravery, and upon receiving the German master plan for the entire war, which has through an unlikely series of events been tattooed onto his posterior, is pursued across France by German intelligence. After breaking into the British military headquarters to deliver the plans into the hands of General Burke (Robert Coote), he is confronted by the sensuous German spy Mata Hari (Zsa Zsa Gabor). After foiling Mata Hari's scheme to relieve him of the plan, a hilarious scene develops in which he is pursued by the nefarious Von Gutz (Lance Percival) and his henchmen Donner and Blitzen (Gertan Klauber and Stanley Lebor). Accompanied by the Can-Can, performed by the Famous Buttercup Girls, Lurk is pursued around the Allied headquarters.
Up Pompeii
Up Pompeii (1971)
, 1h30
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Frankie Howerd, Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray, Patrick Cargill, Lance Percival, Julie Ege
Roles Prosperus Maximus
Rating60% 3.0014353.0014353.0014353.0014353.001435
Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) becomes the inadvertent possessor of a scroll bearing all the names of the proposed assassins of Nero (Patrick Cargill). The conspirators need to recover the scroll fast, but it has fallen into the hands of Lurcio's master, Ludicrus Sextus (Michael Hordern) who mistakenly reads the contents of the scroll to the Senate. Farcical attempts are made to retrieve the scroll before Pompeii is eventually consumed by the erupting Vesuvius.
The Best House in London
The Best House in London (1969)
, 1h45
Directed by Philip Saville
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders, Dany Robin, Warren Mitchell, John Bird
Roles Inspector MacPherson
Rating43% 2.177262.177262.177262.177262.17726
Dans l'Angleterre victorienne dans laquelle la prostitution est réprimée de manière sévère, des jeunes dandys londoniens persuadent le ministre de l'intérieur d'ouvrir un bordel de luxe…