Ronald Pickup

Actor Jun 7 (died age 80) Chester, England, UK 1951–2021 (70 year career)

6.3 avg rating

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

Film

Darkest Hour

Neville Chamberlain

Film

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

King Sharaman

Film

The Mission

Hontar

Film

Lolita

Young Humbert's Father

Film

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Norman Cousins

Film

The Day of the Jackal

The Forger

Film

Never Say Never Again

Elliott

Film

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Norman Cousins

Filmography

Acting (134)

Movies (80)

End of Term

2021

as Damian Self

The Happy Prince

2018

as Judge

6.2

Darkest Hour

2017

as Neville Chamberlain

7.4

Stealing Silver

2017

as Udo

7.2

The Time of Their Lives

as Frank

The Have-Nots

as Bentham

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

2015

as Norman Cousins

6.4

A Little Place Off the Edgware Road

2014

as Bearded Man

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

2012

as Norman Cousins

7.0

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

2010

as King Sharaman

6.3

Theatreland

2009

as Himself

Dark Floors

2008

as Tobias

4.9

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

2007

as William McDowell

5.7

Cherished

2005

as Professor Sir Roy Meadow

7.0

Supernova

2005

as Dr. Malcolm Handey

4.3

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby

2005

as Cecil Johnson

5.4

A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper

2005

as Monsieur Moitessier

Evilenko

as Aron Richter

Secret Passage

as Da Monte

Benefit to Mankind

as Professor Quentin Tapscott

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea

2004

as Monsieur Moitessier

4.6

Breathtaking

2000

as Dr. Maclaren

2.7

Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil

1999

as Don Massaredo

7.2

Lolita

1997

as Young Humbert's Father

7.1

Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis

as Percy Stone

Der Blinde

as Dr. Bartnik

Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told

1996

as Narrator

Henry IV

as Henry IV

A Very Open Prison

as Brian Silcott

Message for Posterity

1994

as Richard Browning

In The Cold Light Of Day

1994

as Morris

Milner

1994

as Jocelyn Fry

6.0

Bethune: The Making of a Hero

as Alan Coleman

The Golden Years

My Friend Walter

as Sir Walter Raleigh

Absolute Hell

1991

as Siegfried Shrager

5.7

The War That Never Ends

as Diodotus

A Murder of Quality

as Felix D'Arcy

Journey of Honor

as Capt. Crawford

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair

1990

as Aslan (voice)

6.4

Jekyll & Hyde

1990

as Jeffrey Utterson, Esquire

5.8

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

as Aslan (voice)

A Dry White Season

as Louw

Danny the Champion of the World

1989

as Captain Lancaster

6.2

Testimony

1988

as Marshall Tukhachevsky

4.5

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1988

as Barrymore

7.2

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe

as Aslan (voice)

The Fourth Protocol

as Wynne-Evans

The Mission

as Hontar

Ladies' Night

as James Tripp

Eleni

as Spiro

Camille

as Jean

Pope John Paul II

as Jan Tyranowski

Puccini

as Giulio Ricordi

Never Say Never Again

1983

as Elliott

6.1

The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura

as George Orwell

Ivanhoe

as Prince John

The Letter

as Howard Joyce

Verdi

as Giuseppe Verdi

Nijinsky

as Igor Stravinsky

Zulu Dawn

as Lt. Harford

Henry VIII

as Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

6.5

In England's Green and Pleasant Land

1979

as Norman Reynolds

For Tea on Sunday

1978

as Ian

The Thirty Nine Steps

as Bayliss

Ghost Trio

Joseph Andrews

as Mr. Wilson

...but the clouds...

The Philanthropist

as Philip

King Lear

1975

as Edgar

Mahler

1974

as Nick

6.7

All Good Men

1974

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

1974

as Lord Randolph Churchill

8.0

The Day of the Jackal

1973

as The Forger

7.5

Long Day's Journey Into Night

as Edmund Tyrone

Three Sisters

as Baron Tusenbach

Much Ado About Nothing

1967

as Don Pedro

5.5

Romeo and Juliet

1967

as Mercutio

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror

1964

as Physician

6.3

Schadenfreude

as The Gambler

Television (54)

The Crown

2016

as Archbishop of Canterbury

Atlantis

as Orpheus

Call the Midwife

as Philip Worth

Pramface

Vera

as Mr. Kipford

Downton Abbey

as Sir Michael Reresby

8.1

Lark Rise to Candleford

2008

8.4

New Tricks

2004

as Sir Wilfred Felspar

7.3

Hustle

2004

as Harry Holmes

7.7

The Worst Week of My Life

as Fraser

Sea of Souls

as Alex Galt

Feather Boy

as Ernest Sorrel

Cambridge Spies

as Colonel Winter

Foyle's War

as Sir Giles Messinger

7.8

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

2002

as Sir Stuart Stinhurst

7.2

The Jury

2002

as Jeffrey Livingstone

6.8

Waking the Dead

2001

as Charles Sutton

7.2

Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

as Sir John Starr

Hornblower

as Don Massaredo

Midsomer Murders

as Rupert Smythe-Webster

Ivanhoe

as Waldemar Fitzurse

Silent Witness

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

1996

as Lester Rose

7.3

Black Hearts in Battersea

1995

as Duke Of Battersea

Scarlett

as Whitlock

The Rector's Wife

as Daniel Byrne

The Riff Raff Element

as Roger Tundish

A Time to Dance

as Andrew Powell

Performance

as Siegfried Shrager

El C.I.D.

as Jack

Not with a Bang

as Brian Appleyard

Behaving Badly

The Chronicles of Narnia

as Aslan (voice)

Inspector Morse

as Ian Matthews

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

1987

as Chief Inspector Moore

Fortunes of War

as Prince Yakimov

Casualty

as Martin / Reginald Freeborn

Matlock

as Sir Alec Moore

Lovejoy

as Edwin Felt

Unnatural Causes

as James Tripp

Screen Two

as Brian Silcott

Moving

Sherlock Holmes

as Barrymore

Albert Einstein

as Albert Einstein

Verdi

1982

as Giuseppe Verdi

5.0

Bergerac

1981

as Sir Antony Villiers

6.7

BBC2 Play of the Week

1977

as Ian

7.0

The Fight Against Slavery

as William Pitt

Father Brown

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

1974

as Randolph Churchill

6.3

Play for Today

1970

as Richard Massingham

6.3

BBC Play of the Month

as Mercutio

Doctor Who

as Physician

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Jean

8.6