Ronald Pickup
Born in Chester, England, UK — Jun 07 1940• Died Feb 25 2021
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Biography
Pickup was born in Chester, England, the son of Daisy (née Williams) and Eric Pickup, who was a lecturer.[1] Pickup was educated at The King's School, Chester, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, and became an Associate Member of RADA. His television work began with an episode during the second series of Doctor Who in 1964, for which he was paid £30. Pickup worked with Laurence Olivier at the Royal National Theatre, most notably in Three Sisters and Long Day's Journey Into Night. In 1973, he starred in the BBC drama series The…
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Midsomer Murders
Rupert Smythe-Webster
Doctor Who
Physician
Casualty
Martin / Reginald Freeborn
Vera
Mr. Kipford
Silent Witness
The Crown
Archbishop of Canterbury
Play for Today
Richard Massingham
Hustle
Harry Holmes
Bergerac
Sir Antony Villiers
Downton Abbey
Sir Michael Reresby
Matlock
Sir Alec Moore
BBC Play of the Month
Mercutio
New Tricks
Sir Wilfred Felspar
Foyle's War
Sir Giles Messinger
Waking the Dead
Charles Sutton
Sherlock Holmes
Barrymore
Screen Two
Brian Silcott
Performance
King Henry IV
Inspector Morse
Ian Matthews
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Chief Inspector Moore
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Sir Stuart Stinhurst
BBC2 Play of the Week
Ian
Lovejoy
Edwin Felt
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Lester Rose
Lolita
Young Humbert's Father
Lark Rise to Candleford
Atlantis
Orpheus
Sea of Souls
Alex Galt
Hornblower
Don Massaredo
Scarlett
Whitlock
The Chronicles of Narnia
Aslan (voice)
Father Brown
Never Say Never Again
Elliott
The Jury
Jeffrey Livingstone
The Day of the Jackal
The Forger
Cambridge Spies
Colonel Winter
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
King Sharaman
Darkest Hour
Neville Chamberlain
Fortunes of War
Prince Yakimov
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Jean
Pramface
The Mission
Hontar
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Sir John Starr
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Randolph Churchill
Ivanhoe
Waldemar Fitzurse
The Worst Week of My Life
Fraser
El C.I.D.
Jack
The Riff Raff Element
Roger Tundish
Evilenko
Aron Richter
Unnatural Causes
James Tripp
Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Norman Cousins
Feather Boy
Ernest Sorrel
The Fourth Protocol
Wynne-Evans
The Rector's Wife
Daniel Byrne
The Happy Prince
Judge
Ivanhoe
Prince John
Zulu Dawn
Lt. Harford
Journey of Honor
Capt. Crawford
Behaving Badly
Jekyll & Hyde
Jeffrey Utterson, Esquire
Three Sisters
Baron Tusenbach
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Norman Cousins
Joseph Andrews
Mr. Wilson
A Time to Dance
Andrew Powell
Mahler
Nick
Absolute Hell
Siegfried Shrager
Dark Floors
Tobias
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Lord Randolph Churchill
The Thirty Nine Steps
Bayliss
A Dry White Season
Louw
Not with a Bang
Brian Appleyard
Supernova
Dr. Malcolm Handey
Secret Passage
Da Monte
Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio
Black Hearts in Battersea
Duke Of Battersea
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
Aslan (voice)
Much Ado About Nothing
Don Pedro
A Murder of Quality
Felix D'Arcy
Camille
Jean
King Lear
Edgar
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
William McDowell
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Monsieur Moitessier
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Barrymore
Schadenfreude
The Gambler
The Fight Against Slavery
William Pitt
The Letter
Howard Joyce
Eleni
Spiro
Breathtaking
Dr. Maclaren
The Have-Nots
Bentham
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Alan Coleman
Danny the Champion of the World
Captain Lancaster
A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
Monsieur Moitessier
Der Blinde
Dr. Bartnik
Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis
Percy Stone
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
Cecil Johnson
Cherished
Professor Sir Roy Meadow
Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil
Don Massaredo
Testimony
Marshall Tukhachevsky
Moving
Henry VIII
Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
Monsieur Moitessier
Ladies' Night
James Tripp
The Philanthropist
Philip
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
A Very Open Prison
Brian Silcott
All Good Men
Milner
Jocelyn Fry
Henry IV
Henry IV
Pope John Paul II
Jan Tyranowski
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Aslan (voice)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Aslan (voice)
Theatreland
Self
Nijinsky
Igor Stravinsky
The War That Never Ends
Diodotus
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
Physician
The Time of Their Lives
Frank
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Edmund Tyrone
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Monsieur Moitessier (uncredited)
Stealing Silver
Udo
Message for Posterity
Richard Browning
Ghost Trio
Puccini
Giulio Ricordi
Benefit to Mankind
Professor Quentin Tapscott
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
Bearded Man
Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
Narrator
My Friend Walter
Sir Walter Raleigh
End of Term
Damian Self
The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura
George Orwell
The Golden Years
For Tea on Sunday
Ian
In The Cold Light Of Day
Morris
...but the clouds...
In England's Green and Pleasant Land
Norman Reynolds