Ballard Berkeley
Born: 1904-08-06 in Margate, Kent, England, UK
Died: 1988-01-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ballard Berkeley made his professional stage debut in 1928, and performed for many years in London's West End and in New York theatres. He is best remembered as Major Gowen in the British television series "Fawlty Towers" (1975).
Filmography
2005
- The Funny Blokes of British Comedy as Major Gowen (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
- The BFG as Head of the Army (voice)
1985
- National Lampoon's European Vacation as English Motorist #2
1984
- Fresh Fields as Guy Penrose
1981
- That's My Boy as Comm. Buckley
1980
- Little Lord Fauntleroy as Harry Lorradaile
- The Wildcats of St Trinian's as Humphry Wills
1979
- Terry and June as Colonel Culpepper
- To the Manor Born as Hartley
- Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair as Judge
- Kelly Monteith
- Queen of the Blues as Uncle Fred (as Ballard Barclay)
1978
- The Playbirds as Trainer
1976
- The New Avengers as Colonel Foster
- Mike Yarwood In Persons
- Confessions of a Driving Instructor as Lord Edgar Snodley
1975
- Fawlty Towers as Major Gowen
1973
- Oh, Father! as Dr Grant
1972
- Are You Being Served? as Angler
- Sykes as Lord Plunket-Taylor
1971
- Bless This House as Group Captain
1970
- The Goodies as Chairman of the British Olympic Committee
- The Weekend Murders as Peter, the butler
1969
- The Main Chance as Major Dibbyn
- Hadleigh as Lord Cranford
1968
- Hostile Witness as Clerk of Court
1967
1966
- Till Death Us Do Part as Golfer
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Cornford
- United!
- The Night Caller as Cmdr. Savage
- The Murder Game as Sir Colin Chalmers
1964
- The Wednesday Play as First Committee Member
- Story Parade as General Sanctuary
- Sherlock Holmes as Sir Charles Baskerville
1963
- Impact as Bill MacKenzie
- A Matter of Choice as Charles Grant
1961
1960
- Coronation Street as Colonel Cantrill
- Maigret as Dr. Pardon
- The Cheaters as Harry Tyler
- Cone of Silence as Commissioner
1959
1958
- Ivanhoe as Rand the Goldsmith
- The Man Who Wouldn't Talk as Court Clerk (uncredited)
- Chain of Events as Stockman
- Further Up the Creek as Whacker Payne
1957
- Night of the Demon
- Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst as Lieutenant Colonel Dewar-Curie
- Just My Luck as Starter at Goodwood (uncredited)
- The Betrayal as Lawson
- After the Ball as Andrews
1956
- The Buccaneers as Rafton
- The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
- My Teenage Daughter as Magistrate
1955
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Count de Waldern
- Dixon of Dock Green as Mr. Noakes
- The Stolen Airliner as Mr Head
1954
- The Men of Sherwood Forest as Walter
- The Weak and the Wicked as Police Detective
- Dangerous Cargo as Findley
- Forbidden Cargo as Cooper
- Delayed Action as Insp. Crane
1953
- The Blue Parrot as Supt. Chester
- 3 Steps to the Gallows as Insp. Haley
- Operation Diplomat as Inspector Austin
1952
- The Night Won't Talk
- Circumstantial Evidence as Det. Insp. Hall
- The Frightened Man as Inspector Bligh
- The Big Frame as Doctor
1951
- The Long Dark Hall as Supt. Maxey
- Blackmailed as Dr. McCormick
1950
- Sunday Night Theatre as Bentley
- Stage Fright as Sergeant Mellish
1947
- They Made Me a Fugitive as Rockliffe
1946
- Quiet Weekend as Jim Brent
1942
- In Which We Serve as Engineer Commander
1940
- The Flying Squad as Smuggler in Airplane
1939
- The Saint in London as Richard Blake
- Black Eyes as Diner
- The Gang's All Here as Detective in Nightclub
1937
- Jennifer Hale as Richard Severn
1936
- East Meets West as Nazim
1934
1930
- The Chinese Bungalow as Richard Marquess
- London Melody as Jan Moor