Ronald Pickup

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1940-06-07 (81 years old)

Deathday

2021-02-25

Place of Birth

Chester, England, UK

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 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 D...

Acting

1986

The Mission

as Hontar

2008

Dark Floors

as Tobias

1991

A Murder of Quality

as Felix D'Arcy

2004

Evilenko

as Aron Richter

1982

Ivanhoe

as Prince John

1990

Jekyll & Hyde

as Jeffrey Utterson, Esquire

1989

2012

1984

Puccini

as Giulio Ricordi

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Schadenfreude

as The Gambler

1980

Nijinsky

as Igor Stravinsky

2009

Theatreland

as Himself

1977

Joseph Andrews

as Mr. Wilson

2021

End of Term

as Damian Self

1995

Henry IV

as Henry IV

1973

1974

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

as Lord Randolph Churchill

1984

Pope John Paul II

as Jan Tyranowski

1983

1967

2005

Supernova

as Dr. Malcolm Handey

1975

King Lear

as Edgar

1984

Camille

as Jean

1975

2004

Secret Passage

as Da Monte

1979

Zulu Dawn

as Lt. Harford

1982

The Letter

as Howard Joyce

1991

Absolute Hell

as Siegfried Shrager

1997

Lolita

as Young Humbert's Father

2016

The Have-Nots

as Bentham

1982

Verdi

as Giuseppe Verdi

1987

The Fourth Protocol

as Wynne-Evans

1967

Romeo and Juliet

as Mercutio

1994

Message for Posterity

as Richard Browning

1994

Milner

as Jocelyn Fry

2005

A Life in Suitcases

as Monsieur Moitessier

2005

Cherished

as Professor Sir Roy Meadow

1985

Eleni

as Spiro

2017

Darkest Hour

as Neville Chamberlain

1974

Mahler

as Nick

1988

Testimony

as Marshall Tukhachevsky

1973

2017

1996

Der Blinde

as Dr. Bartnik

1995

A Very Open Prison

as Brian Silcott

1978

1979

Henry VIII

as Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

1991

Journey of Honor

as Capt. Crawford

1992

My Friend Walter

as Sir Walter Raleigh

2018

1970

Three Sisters

as Baron Tusenbach

2000

Breathtaking

as Dr. Maclaren

1986

Ladies' Night

as James Tripp

2004

Benefit to Mankind

as Professor Quentin Tapscott

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