Sir Ronald Pickup (born 7 June 1940) is a well-established English actor. June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is God Save the Queen. See also Proposed English National Anthems. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

Born in Chester, England, 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. This article is about Chester in England. ... The Kings School, Chester is a coeducational independent school in Chester, England. ... RADAs theatre in London The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in Bloomsbury, London, is generally regarded as the most prestigious drama school in the world. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

His television work began with an episode during the first season of Doctor Who in 1964, for which he was paid £30. 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 (film). In 1983, he appeared opposite Penelope Keith in Moving. More modern roles have included parts in Hornblower, Hustle, Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders, Waking the Dead, The Bill, Silent Witness, 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. Ronald Pickup played the secretary to Peter O'Toole's Lord Chelmsford in Zulu Dawn in 1979. Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior... “GBP” redirects here. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Longest Walk: a British Army ATO approaches a suspect device in Northern Ireland. ... The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 film set in the early 1960s based on a novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth. ... Penelope Keith, OBE, (born Penelope Anne Constance Hatfield on 2 April 1940 in Sutton) is a British actress of stage and screen. ... Moving is a short-lived British sitcom starring Penelope Keith that aired in 1985. ... Hornblower is the umbrella title of an acclaimed series of television drama programmes loosely based on C. S. Foresters novels about the character Horatio Hornblower, a British naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars. ... Hustle may mean: Hustle (TV series), a BBC TV drama series shown on BBC One. ... Foyles War is a detective television programme created by screen-writer and author Anthony Horowitz, and commissioned by ITV after the long-running detective series Inspector Morse came to an end in 2000. ... Midsomer Murders is a popular British television series about murders that take place in the fictional English county of Midsomer. ... Waking The Dead is a British television crime drama series produced by the BBC. There have been a total of five series (the latest of which began airing in September 2005). ... The Bill is a long-running British television police procedural, first broadcast on 16 October 1984 and transmitted on ITV, at 8pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays. ... Silent Witness is a long-running British television thriller series made by the BBCs in-house Drama Serials production department, and screened on the BBC One channel. ... Morse (left) as played by John Thaw in the television adaption (with Kevin Whately as Lewis (right)). Detective Chief Inspector Morse is a fictional character, who features in a series of thirteen detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, though he is better known for the 33 episode TV series... The Worst Week of My Life is a seven part television series, first broadcast on BBC One between March and April 2004, follows the disastrous seven days leading up to the wedding of Howard Steel (Ben Miller) and Mel Cook (Sarah Alexander). ... Holby City is a medical drama television serial, formerly a drama series, broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. ... In its history, the popular BBC drama Holby City has had characters who make only limited appearances either for a specific storyline or to bring entertainment to the show. ... Zulu Dawn is a 1979 book and motion picture about the Battle of Isandlwana between British and Zulu military units in 1879 in South Africa. ...

He worked with Sir Laurence Olivier twice, in Three Sisters (1970) and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1973) Laurence Olivier, as photographed in 1939 by Carl Van Vechten Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (May 22, 1907 – July 11, 1989) was an English actor and director, esteemed by many as the greatest actor of the 20th century. ... The Three Sisters are three volcanic peaks of the Cascade Range, located near the town of Sisters, Oregon. ... Long Days Journey Into Night is a dramatic play in four acts by Eugene ONeill, widely considered to be his masterwork. ...

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. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Fortunes of War - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Olivia Manning (March 2, 1911 – July 23, 1980) was a British novelist. ... For other uses, see Aslan (disambiguation). ... The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis. ...

Ronald Pickup 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. The Laurence Olivier Awards, previously known as The Society of West End Theatre Awards, were renamed in honour of British actor Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier in 1984, having first been established in 1976. ...

External link

• Ronald Pickup at the Internet Movie Database