Ronald Henry Pember was an English actor, stage director and dramatist.
16 Facts About Ron Pember
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Ron Pember wrote a stage musical entitled Jack the Ripper, about the Victorian murder spree in London in the late 1880s, which is regularly produced by amateur theatre groups and companies around the globe.
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Ron Pember was born in Plaistow, then in the county of Essex, on 11 April 1934, the son of Gladys and William Ron Pember.
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Ron Pember received his formal education at Eastbrook Secondary Modern School, in Dagenham.
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Ron Pember appeared in cinema for the first time in an uncredited role in the film The Pumpkin Eater, and appeared in a dramatized television adaptation of Pilgrim's Progress in several roles.
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Ron Pember appeared in a bit-part of a "Corporal at a Railway Station" in the cinema film Oh, What a Lovely War, and as a 'cobbler' in the cinema film Julius Caesar.
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Ron Pember acted the role of Jaffee in an episode of the television Victorian crime series The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, and played Sgt.
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Ron Pember continued working in small parts in cinema, appearing as a lift-operator in the horror-suspense film Death Line.
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In 1974, Ron Pember performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in a production of Twelfth Night.
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Ron Pember appeared in the play Liza of Lambeth at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1976.
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Ron Pember ended the decade by playing the character of Makins in the Jack the Ripper Victorian murder-thriller cinema film Murder by Decree.
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Ron Pember played Belgian Resistance fighter and morse-code radio operator Alain Muny in the BBC's World War II drama Secret Army, from 1977 to 1979.
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Ron Pember continued to work in cinema productions, appearing in the role of Dobbs in the period-comedy pastiche cinema film Bullshot, and as a Ferryman in Ordeal by Innocence.
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Ron Pember appeared with Maggie Ollerenshaw in the 1985 tragi-comic spoof documentary 'Swim The Channel' in Victoria Wood As Seen On TV as parents who forget they have any children.
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In 1987 Ron Pember began playing the role of Dennis Timson in the legal drama series Rumpole of the Bailey, which he continued with for the next 6 years until his retirement from acting.
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Ron Pember stopped acting after suffering a stroke in 1992, and retired to live in Southend-on-Sea.