Ronald Pickup

Acting · 1.1 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: June 7, 1940 – February 25, 2021
From: Chester, England, UK

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 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.

Works

86 films

Lolita

19977.1

Darkest Hour

20177.4

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

20106.3

Never Say Never Again

19836.1

The Mission

19867.4

The Day of the Jackal

19737.5

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

20127.0

Zulu Dawn

19796.1

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

20156.4

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby

20055.7

The Fourth Protocol

19876.3

Ivanhoe

19826.4

Danny the Champion of the World

19896.2

Dark Floors

20084.9

Mahler

19746.8

Absolute Hell

19916.0

A Murder of Quality

19915.7

The Happy Prince

20186.2

The Thirty Nine Steps

19786.8

Evilenko

20045.8

The Hound of the Baskervilles

19887.3

Milner

19948.0

A Dry White Season

19896.7

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

19748.0

Eleni

19855.8

Bethune: The Making of a Hero

19935.2

Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis

19974.6

Jekyll & Hyde

19905.9

The Time of Their Lives

20175.0

Nijinsky

19804.9

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

20075.8

Schadenfreude

2025

The Have-Nots

20165.1

Camille

19845.5

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story

20035.2

Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil

19997.2

A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper

20055.8

Ladies' Night

1986

The War That Never Ends

19915.0

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

19896.1

Theatreland

2009

Supernova

20054.3

Much Ado About Nothing

19676.3

Journey of Honor

19915.1

Romeo and Juliet

1967

Waters of the Moon

1983

Pope John Paul II

19847.5

A Very Open Prison

19958.5

Henry VIII

19796.6

Joseph Andrews

19775.2

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror

19646.3

King Lear

197510.0

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair

19906.5

The Golden Years

199210.0

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

20044.9

The Untitled

1998

Chekhov in Yalta

1988

The Philanthropist

19758.0

Three Sisters

19704.3

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish

20055.0

Breathtaking

20003.6

Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told

1996

Henry IV

19958.5

Puccini

19844.3

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

19886.5

The Letter

19824.7

My Friend Walter

19927.0

Der Blinde

19967.0

Secret Passage

20044.7

In The Cold Light Of Day

1994

Verdi

198210.0

Cherished

20058.0

For Tea on Sunday

1978

Testimony

19885.6

All Good Men

1974

Long Day's Journey Into Night

19737.0

End of Term

2021

The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura

19837.0

Message for Posterity

19948.0

Benefit to Mankind

2004

...but the clouds...

19779.0

Ghost Trio

1977

A Little Place Off the Edgware Road

2014

Stealing Silver

20177.2

In England's Green and Pleasant Land

1979

The Roses of Eyam

19737.0