Raymond Mason
演员
13
电影
24
电视节目
During Raymond Mason’s 20 years of acting in the ITV soap opera Crossroads, he played five different roles. “I don’t think anyone ever noticed,” he said, “and I don’t put it down to versatility.” For trained actors in the days when there was just a handful of drama colleges and fewer vocational courses, the pool of talent was by definition smaller. Many performers found themselves appearing more than once in the same programmes. For Raymond, the roles that he played on British television over 40-odd years numbered more than 1,000, and he appeared in scores of commercials at home and overseas.
One of the reasons for Raymond’s success was that he was comfortable in a supporting role and, crucially, adept at not stealing a scene. Through a combination of timing and practised self-effacement he allowed the main star, or joke, to shine. Modest about taking the credit, he effectively enabled the skit.
In the late 1960s and 1970s, when comedy was spread across just three TV channels, Raymond appeared in Saturday-night programmes including The Morecambe & Wise Show — he described the double act as “a joy”, The Two Ronnies and alongside Frankie Howerd, Les Dawson and the like. In a 1979 episode of Fawlty Towers called The Kipper and the Corpse, his character attempts to retrieve his hat while Basil is trying to hide the body of a deceased guest. John Cleese later described him as “one of my favourite actors”.
The middle child between an older and a younger sister, Raymond was born in 1924 in Great Bridge, Staffordshire, and brought up in Tettenhall near Wolverhampton.
His exposure to light entertainment started at an early age as his father, George, who had fought in the First World War, played the piano and organ, wrote his own compositions and was a local bandleader. After shutting up the fish and chip shop in Wolverhampton that he owned with his wife, Elizabeth, George would stuff a keyboard glockenspiel into his bike’s front carrier and set off
作为演员/演员
刑事法庭
Roy Pettit
BBC 本月最佳剧目
Rent Steward
625剧院
Telescreen Announcer
威克利夫
Len Rawlinson
酋长
Pig Farmer
弗尔蒂塔
Mr. Zebedee
特里和琼
亚当斯先生
神秘与想象力
Dr Tomkins
五月的亲爱的花蕾
推销员
丘吉尔的人民
Mr Newman
中心游戏
亚瑟
敌人在门口
银行经理
纸牌屋 I (Castillo de naipes)
Stoat
虎皮鹦鹉
Clerk of The Court
下午的玩耍
Thommo
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Mr. Chipchase
阿瑟·柯南·道尔爵士
Third Man
尼古拉斯·尼克尔比
Charles Cheeryble
猎人步行
马特
亚瑟王传奇
Vavasour
丽塔·鲁德纳
布兰尼根
Club Clerk (uncredited)
理智与感性
Mr Harris
年轻的温斯顿
Man in Theatre Gallery (uncredited)
Muck and Brass
Reg Palmer
冬青
律师
漏洞
搬运工
村庄
Reynaldo
Bartleby
房东
A Photograph
Mr. Lightbody