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
- The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole as Bert Fraser
- Little Dorrit as Mr. Casby
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 Amorous Milkman as Gerald Jones
- The Apple Cart as Boanerges
1974
- Dead Cert as Uncle George
- All Good Men
- 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
- Up the Chastity Belt as Sir Braggart de Bombast
- Up the Front as Sergeant Major Groping
- That's Your Funeral as Basil Bulstrode
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
- Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town as Mr John Wilton
- That's Your Funeral
1969
- Captain Nemo and the Underwater City as Barnaby Bath
- The Best House in London as Inspector MacPherson
- Pickwick as Serjeant Buzzfuzz
1968
- Ooh La La! as Pochet
- Tom Grattan's War as Sergeant Major – Uncle Wally
- 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
- Joey Boy as Sergeant Major Dobbs
- Masquerade as Leslie Dunwoody
- Six Shades of Black as Sir Charles Trotter
- I've Gotta Horse as Mr. Bartholemew
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Lt. Col. Svinin
- Theatre 625 as The Nabob
- The Americanization of Emily as Port Commander
- Foreign Affairs
- A Home of Your Own as The Shop Steward
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)
- Doctor at Large as Police Sergeant (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
- Duel in the Jungle as Smith, Hotel Clerk
- Orders Are Orders as Pvt. Slee
1953
- Meet Mr. Lucifer as Band Leader
- The Captain's Paradise as Absalom (taxi driver)
- Time Bomb as Constable J. Reed
1952
- Lady in the Fog as Sales Manager
- Meet Me Tonight as Bert Bentley (segment "Red Peppers")
1949
- Forbidden as Railway Porter (uncredited)
- Helter Skelter as Oliver Cromwell
1941
- East of Piccadilly as Maxie
- The Common Touch as Harris