1. William Simpson Fraser was a Scottish actor who appeared on stage, screen and television for many years.
17 Facts About Bill Fraser
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Bill Fraser was born in Perth and educated at Strathallan School.
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Bill Fraser began his career as a clerk in a bank before beginning to act.
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Just after the war a chance meeting in a London street led to Bill Fraser's giving Sykes his first work as a writer for radio comedy and the two friends worked together many times over the following years.
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Bill Fraser is credited with giving Peter Cushing his first acting job.
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Bill Fraser often played irascible or belligerent characters on screen and had many roles as a policeman, soldier or judge.
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Bill Fraser then joined The Army Game as Sgt Claude Snudge, followed by a sequel called Bootsie and Snudge.
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Bill Fraser played Snudge in the 1964 series Foreign Affairs.
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Bill Fraser had a recurring role on Rumpole of the Bailey as Judge Roger Bullingham, an unsympathetic, usually apoplectic judge privately nicknamed "the Mad Bull" by defence barrister Horace Rumpole.
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Bill Fraser made appearances on The Professionals and The Avengers.
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Bill Fraser featured in the Doctor Who story Meglos in 1980, and appeared in the spin-off show K-9 and Company the following year.
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Bill Fraser appeared as Mr Micawber in the TV dramatisation of David Copperfield in 1966.
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Bill Fraser played Serjeant Buzzfuzz in the TV musical Pickwick for the BBC in 1969; and his last role was as Mr Casby in the film version of Little Dorrit.
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Bill Fraser was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1981 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Royalty Theatre in London.
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Bill Fraser appeared in an early advertisement for the Austin Metro.
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Bill Fraser played husband to Googie Withers in the Chichester Theatre production of Maugham's The Circle.
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Bill Fraser died from emphysema in Bushey, Hertfordshire, aged 79, leaving a widow, the actress Pamela Cundell, whom he had married in 1981.