
Ronald Pickup
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 Dragon's Opponent, playing a World War II bomb disposal expert and also appeared in The Day of the Jackal. He played Lt. Harford in Zulu Dawn in 1979, portrayed Igor Stravinsky in Nijinsky in 1980, Prince John in Ivanhoe in 1982, and in 1983 he appeared opposite Penelope Keith in Moving, in 1988 in the BBC miniseries The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988 TV Serial) as the voice of Aslan, and in 1990 he starred in the short lived sit-com, Not with a Bang. More modern roles have included parts in Hornblower, Hustle, Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders, Waking the Dead, The Bill, Silent Witness, Sherlock Holmes, and Inspector Morse. He is also a regular character in the BBC sitcom The Worst Week of My Life. His most recent appearance was in Holby City as Lord Charles Byrne. Pickup gave a highly acclaimed performance as a decayed Russian aristocrat in the BBC series Fortunes of War, based on a work by Olivia Manning. He also provided the voice for Aslan in the BBC's adaptation of the Chronicles of Narnia and starred opposite Judi Dench in the 1989 Channel 4 serial Behaving Badly. He is also an accomplished stage actor. He was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role of 1997 for his performance in Amy's View. Pickup had the starring role as composer Giuseppe Verdi in the acclaimed The Life of Verdi, written and directed by Renato Castellani. In 2005, he had a supporting role in the family-based film, The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby. Between March and August 2009, he starred as Lucky in Sean Mathias' production of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett opposite Sir Ian McKellen (Estragon), Patrick Stewart (Vladimir) and also Simon Callow (Pozzo). The tour opened in Malvern before travelling to Milton Keynes, Brighton, Bath, Norwich, Edinburgh and Newcastle; its run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket was extended due to demand. In February 2010 he also appeared as 'Pegleg' in the BBC's period drama Lark Rise to Candleford. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ronald Pickup, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2025Schadenfreude (The Gambler)
- 2021End of Term (Damian Self)
- 2018The Happy Prince (Judge)
- 2017Süngeim tund (Neville Chamberlain)
- 2017Stealing Silver (Udo)
- 2017The Time of Their Lives (Frank)
- 2016The Crown (Archbishop of Canterbury)
- 2016Die Habenichtse (Bentham)
- 2015The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Norman Cousins)
- 2014A Little Place Off the Edgware Road (Bearded Man)
- 2013Atlantis (Orpheus)
- 2012The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Norman Cousins)
- 2012Pramface
- 2011Vera (Mr. Kipford)
- 2010Downton Abbey (Sir Michael Reresby)
- 2010Pärsia prints: Ajaliiv (King Sharaman)
- 2009Theatreland (Self)
- 2008Dark Floors (Tobias)
- 2008Lark Rise to Candleford
- 2007The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (William McDowell)
- 2007Lewis (Fr Moreno Mancini)
- 2005The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby (Cecil Johnson)
- 2005Supernova (Dr. Malcolm Handey)
- 2005A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper (Monsieur Moitessier)
- 2005The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (Monsieur Moitessier)
- 2005Cherished (Professor Sir Roy Meadow)
- 2004The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (Monsieur Moitessier (uncredited))
- 2004Evilenko (Aron Richter)
- 2004Feather Boy (Ernest Sorrel)
- 2004The Worst Week of My Life (Fraser Cook)
- 2004Benefit to Mankind (Professor Quentin Tapscott)
- 2004Hustle (Harry Holmes)
- 2004Sea of Souls (Alex Galt)
- 2004Secret Passage (Da Monte)
- 2004New Tricks (Sir Wilfred Felspar)
- 2003The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (Monsieur Moitessier)
- 2003Cambridge Spies (Colonel Winter)
- 2002Foyle'i sõda (Sir Giles Messinger)
- 2002The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (Sir Stuart Stinhurst)
- 2002The Jury (Jeffrey Livingstone)
- 2001Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (Sir John Starr)
- 2001Waking the Dead (Charles Sutton)
- 2000Breathtaking (Dr. Maclaren)
- 1999Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (Don Massaredo)
- 1998Hornblower (Don Massaredo)
- 1998The Untitled (Robert Kennings)
- 1997Lolita (Young Humbert's Father)
- 1997Midsomer Murders (Rupert Smythe-Webster)
- 1997Midsomer Murders (Ernest Balliol)
- 1997Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (Percy Stone)
- 1997Ivanhoe (Waldemar Fitzurse)
- 1996Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told (Narrator)
- 1996Dalziel and Pascoe (Walter Wulfstan)
- 1996Der Blinde (Dr. Bartnik)
- 1996Silent Witness
- 1996Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (Lester Rose)
- 1995Black Hearts in Battersea (Duke Of Battersea)
- 1995A Very Open Prison (Brian Silcott)
- 1995Henry IV (Henry IV)
- 1994Milner (Jocelyn Fry)
- 1994Scarlett (Whitlock)
- 1994Message for Posterity (Richard Browning)
- 1994In The Cold Light Of Day (Morris)
- 1994The Riff Raff Element (Roger Tundish)
- 1994The Rector's Wife (Daniel Byrne)
- 1993Bethune: The Making of a Hero (Alan Coleman)
- 1992My Friend Walter (Sir Walter Raleigh)
- 1992A Time to Dance (Andrew Powell)
- 1992The Golden Years
- 1991Absolute Hell (Siegfried Shrager)
- 1991Performance (King Henry IV)
- 1991Performance (Siegfried Shrager)
- 1991Performance (Richard Browning)
- 1991A Murder of Quality (Felix D'Arcy)
- 1991Journey of Honor (Capt. Crawford)
- 1991The War That Never Ends (Diodotus)
- 1990The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair (Aslan (voice))
- 1990Not with a Bang (Brian Appleyard)
- 1990El C.I.D. (Jack)
- 1990Jekyll & Hyde (Jeffrey Utterson, Esquire)
- 1989The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Aslan (voice))
- 1989A Dry White Season (Louw)
- 1989Danny the Champion of the World (Captain Lancaster)
- 1989Behaving Badly
- 1988The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (Aslan (voice))
- 1988The Chronicles of Narnia (Aslan (voice))
- 1988Testimony (Marshall Tukhachevsky)
- 1988The Hound of the Baskervilles (Barrymore)
- 1988Chekhov in Yalta (Konstantin Stanislavski)
- 1987Fortunes of War (Prince Yakimov)
- 1987The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (Chief Inspector Moore)
- 1987The Fourth Protocol (Wynne-Evans)
- 1987Inspektor Morse (Ian Matthews)
- 1986Ladies' Night (James Tripp)
- 1986Unnatural Causes (James Tripp)
- 1986The Mission (Hontar)
- 1986Casualty (Martin / Reginald Freeborn)
- 1986Matlock (Sir Alec Moore)
- 1986Lovejoy (Edwin Felt)
- 1985Eleni (Spiro)
- 1985Moving
- 1985Screen Two (Brian Silcott)
- 1984Camille (Jean)
- 1984Sharing Time (Philip)
- 1984Sherlock Holmes (Barrymore)
- 1984Pope John Paul II (Jan Tyranowski)
- 1984Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein)
- 1984Puccini (Giulio Ricordi)
- 1983Waters of the Moon (Julius Winterhalter)
- 1983The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura (George Orwell)
- 1983Never Say Never Again (Elliott)
- 1982Verdi (Giuseppe Verdi)
- 1982The Letter (Howard Joyce)
- 1982Ivanhoe (Prince John)
- 1982Verdi (Giuseppe Verdi)
- 1981Bergerac (Sir Antony Villiers)
- 1980Nijinsky (Igor Stravinsky)
- 1979In England's Green and Pleasant Land (Norman Reynolds)
- 1979Zulu Dawn (Lt. Harford)
- 1979Henry VIII (Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury)
- 1978The BBC Television Shakespeare (Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury)
- 1978The Thirty Nine Steps (Bayliss)
- 1978For Tea on Sunday (Ian)
- 1977BBC2 Play of the Week (Ian)
- 1977BBC2 Play of the Week (Norman Reynolds)
- 1977Ghost Trio
- 1977...but the clouds...
- 1977Joseph Andrews (Mr. Wilson)
- 1977Romance (Rory Balneath)
- 1976The Lively Arts (Self)
- 1975The Philanthropist (Philip)
- 1975King Lear (Edgar)
- 1975The Fight Against Slavery (William Pitt)
- 1974Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (Lord Randolph Churchill)
- 1974Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (Randolph Churchill)
- 1974Father Brown (Kalon)
- 1974Mahler (Nick)
- 1974All Good Men
- 1973The Dragon's Opponent (Charles "Mad Jack" Howard)
- 1973The Roses of Eyam (Reverend William Mompesson)
- 1973The Day of the Jackal (The Forger)
- 1973Long Day's Journey Into Night (Edmund Tyrone)
- 1970Play for Today (Richard Massingham)
- 1970Three Sisters (Baron Tusenbach)
- 1969ITV Saturday Night Theatre (Edmund Tyrone)
- 1967ITV Playhouse (Graham)
- 1967Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio)
- 1967Much Ado About Nothing (Don Pedro)
- 1965BBC Play of the Month (Mercutio)
- 1965BBC Play of the Month (Ariel)
- 1965BBC Play of the Month (Brother Martin Ladvenu)
- 1965BBC Play of the Month (Edgar)
- 1964Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror (Physician)
- 1963Doctor Who (Physician)
- 1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (Jean)