Bill Fraser
Born: 1908-06-05 in Perth, Scotland, UK
Died: 1987-09-05
Known For: 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".
Filmography
1994
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
1987
- Little Dorrit as Mr. Casby
- The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole as Bert Fraser
1985
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ as Bert Baxter
- Cover Her Face as Sir Reynold Price
- Christmas Present as Sir Percy
1984
- Puccini as Fucini, the Lawyer
1981
- Eye of the Needle as Mr. Porter
- K-9 and Company
- K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend as Commander Bill Pollock
1980
- Doctor Who: Meglos as General Grugger
- Rhubarb Rhubarb
1979
- Comedians as Eddie Waters
- The Corn Is Green as The Squire
1978
- Strangers as Aristotle Carmos
1977
- The Professionals as Col. Summerville
1976
- Clay, Smeddum and Greenden as Murdoch
1975
- Rumpole of the Bailey as Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham
- The Apple Cart as Boanerges
- The Amorous Milkman as Gerald Jones
1974
- All Good Men
- Dead Cert as Uncle George
- Moments as Mr. Fleming
- Intent to Murder as Arthur Henderson
1973
- Whoops Baghdad as Wizard Prang
- Black and Blue as N.J.
- Love Thy Neighbour as Mr. Granger
- The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family as NJ
1972
- The Train Now Standing as Hedley Green
- That's Your Funeral as Basil Bulstrode
- Up the Front as Sergeant Major Groping
- Up the Chastity Belt as Sir Braggart de Bombast
1971
- Up Pompeii as Prosperus Maximus
1970
- Play for Today as Edward Waite
- The Goodies as Army Sergeant
- All the Way Up as Arnold Makepeace
- That's Your Funeral
- Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town as Mr John Wilton
1969
- The Best House in London as Inspector MacPherson
- Captain Nemo and the Underwater City as Barnaby Bath
- Pickwick as Serjeant Buzzfuzz
1968
- Ooh La La! as Pochet
- Funeral Games as McCorquodale
- Diamonds for Breakfast as Bookseller
1967
- ITV Playhouse as McCorquodale
1966
- Till Death Us Do Part as Mr Williams
- David Copperfield as Wilkins Micawber
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Boanerges
- Londoners as Henry Firth
- Six Shades of Black as Sir Charles Trotter
- Masquerade as Leslie Dunwoody
- Joey Boy as Sergeant Major Dobbs
- I've Gotta Horse as Mr. Bartholemew
1964
- Theatre 625 as The Nabob
- The Wednesday Play as Lt. Col. Svinin
- The Americanization of Emily as Port Commander
- A Home of Your Own as The Shop Steward
- Foreign Affairs
1963
- Doctor Who as General Grugger
- What a Crazy World as J. Mulligan
1962
- The Fast Lady as Golfer (uncredited)
1960
- Bootsie and Snudge as Claude Snudge
- Doctor in Love as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
1959
- The Man Who Liked Funerals as Jeremy Bentham
1958
- Another Time, Another Place as R.E. Sergeant
- Davy as Man at Bar (uncredited)
- A Clean Sweep as Bookmaker
1957
- The Army Game as Sergeant Major Claude Snudge
- Second Fiddle as Nixon
- Just My Luck as Mr. Powell (uncredited)
- Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1 as Inspector Collins / Police Sergeant
1956
- Hancock's Half Hour
- Charley Moon as Marber
1955
- Alias John Preston as Joe Newton
1954
- The Barefoot Contessa as J. Montague Brown
- And So To Bentley
- Orders Are Orders as Pvt. Slee
- Duel in the Jungle as Smith, Hotel Clerk
1953
- Meet Mr. Lucifer as Band Leader
- Time Bomb as Constable J. Reed
- The Captain's Paradise as Absalom (taxi driver)
1952
- Meet Me Tonight as Bert Bentley (segment "Red Peppers")
- Lady in the Fog as Sales Manager
1949
- Helter Skelter as Oliver Cromwell
- Forbidden as Railway Porter (uncredited)
1941
- The Common Touch as Harris
- East of Piccadilly as Maxie