Actor
Ronald Pickup
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 ...

Known For
Acting
2021 -- End of Term | Damian Self
2018 -- The Happy Prince | Judge
2017 -- Darkest Hour | Neville Chamberlain
2017 -- Stealing Silver | Udo
2017 -- The Time of Their Lives | Frank
2016 -- The Have-Nots | Bentham
2015 -- The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Norman Cousins
2014 -- A Little Place Off the Edgware Road | Bearded Man
2012 -- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Norman Cousins
2010 -- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | King Sharaman
2009 -- Theatreland | Himself
2008 -- Dark Floors | Tobias
2007 -- The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey | William McDowell
2005 -- The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby | Cecil Johnson
2005 -- A Life in Suitcases | Monsieur Moitessier
2005 -- Supernova | Dr. Malcolm Handey
2005 -- Cherished | Professor Sir Roy Meadow
2004 -- Evilenko | Aron Richter
2004 -- The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea | Monsieur Moitessier
2004 -- Secret Passage | Da Monte
2000 -- Breathtaking | Dr. Maclaren
1999 -- Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil | Don Massaredo
1997 -- Lolita | Young Humbert's Father
1997 -- Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis | Percy Stone
1996 -- Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told | Narrator
1996 -- Der Blinde | Dr. Bartnik
1995 -- A Very Open Prison | Brian Silcott
1995 -- Henry IV | Henry IV
1994 -- Milner | Jocelyn Fry
1994 -- Message for Posterity | Richard Browning
1994 -- In The Cold Light Of Day | Morris
1993 -- Bethune: The Making of a Hero | Alan Coleman
1992 -- My Friend Walter | Sir Walter Raleigh
1992 -- The Golden Years |
1991 -- Absolute Hell | Siegfried Shrager
1991 -- A Murder of Quality | Felix D'Arcy
1991 -- Journey of Honor | Capt. Crawford
1991 -- The War That Never Ends | Diodotus
1990 -- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair | Aslan (voice)
1990 -- Jekyll & Hyde | Jeffrey Utterson, Esquire
1989 -- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Aslan (voice)
1989 -- A Dry White Season | Louw
1989 -- Danny the Champion of the World | Captain Lancaster
1988 -- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe | Aslan (voice)
1988 -- Testimony | Marshall Tukhachevsky
1988 -- The Hound of the Baskervilles | Barrymore
1987 -- The Fourth Protocol | Wynne-Evans
1986 -- Ladies' Night | James Tripp
1986 -- The Mission | Hontar
1985 -- Eleni | Spiro
1984 -- Camille | Jean
1984 -- Pope John Paul II | Jan Tyranowski
1984 -- Puccini | Giulio Ricordi
1983 -- The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura | George Orwell
1983 -- Never Say Never Again | Elliott
1982 -- The Letter | Howard Joyce
1982 -- Ivanhoe | Prince John
1982 -- Verdi | Giuseppe Verdi
1980 -- Nijinsky | Igor Stravinsky
1979 -- In England's Green and Pleasant Land | Norman Reynolds
1979 -- Zulu Dawn | Lt. Harford
1979 -- Henry VIII | Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
1978 -- The Thirty Nine Steps | Bayliss
1978 -- For Tea on Sunday | Ian
1977 -- Ghost Trio |
1977 -- ...but the clouds... |
1977 -- Joseph Andrews | Mr. Wilson
1975 -- The Philanthropist | Philip
1975 -- King Lear | Edgar
1974 -- Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill | Lord Randolph Churchill
1974 -- Mahler | Nick
1974 -- All Good Men |
1973 -- The Day of the Jackal | The Forger
1973 -- Long Day's Journey Into Night | Edmund Tyrone
1970 -- Three Sisters | Baron Tusenbach
1967 -- Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio
1967 -- Much Ado About Nothing | Don Pedro
1964 -- Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror | Physician
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