Ronald Forfar

Acting
1939-06-01
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom

Biography

Actor and writer better known for the BBC sitcom Bread.

Known For & Full Filmography18 Titles

#1Play for Today

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as 'Costello The Second'

6.6 / 10
Drama

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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#2The Sweeney

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Police Observer

8.1 / 10
Action & AdventureDramaCrime

Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.

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#3ChuckleVision

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
FamilyComedy

ChuckleVision is a long-standing British children's series broadcast from 1987 to 2009. The Chuckle Brothers' famous comedy involves slapstick, other visual gags, wordplay, and catchphrases such as "To me, to you!" and "Oh dear, oh dear!"

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#4Bread

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Freddie Boswell

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991. The series focused on the devoutly-Catholic and extended Boswell family of Liverpool, in the district of Dingle, led by its matriarch Nellie through a number of ups and downs as they tried to make their way through life in Thatcher's Britain with no visible means of support. The street shown at the start of each programme is Elswick Street. A family called Boswell had also featured in Lane's earlier sitcom The Liver Birds and Lane admitted in interviews that the two families were probably related. Nellie's feckless and estranged husband, Freddie, left her for another woman known as 'Lilo Lill'. Her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Aveline and Billy continued to live in the family home in Kelsall Street and contributed money to the central family fund, largely through benefit fraud and the sale of stolen goods.

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#5The New Avengers

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Jud

7.1 / 10
DramaAction & Adventure

The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.

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#6Sherlock Holmes

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.9 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

Sherlock Holmes (also known as 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes') is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company BBC between 1964 and 1968. This was the second screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Television.

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#7Plays for Britain

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Jackson

6.0 / 10
Drama

An anthology series of six contemporary plays from writers at relatively early stages in their careers.

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#8The Nightmare Man

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes as Campbell

6.7 / 10
Drama

The population of a small Scottish island is gripped with fear following a strange discovery and a series of savage murders. Adapted from David Wiltshire's 'Child of Vodyanoi'.

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#9Henry V

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Bates

6.2 / 10
DramaWarTV Movie

Insulted by the Dauphin, the newly-crowned King Henry V gathers his troops for war. But Henry must convince his men that he has left his wild days behind, and prove himself as a leader.

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#10King Lear

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as First Officer

6.7 / 10
DramaTV Movie

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

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#11Squaring the Circle

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Prisoner

5.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.

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#12Julius Caesar

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Soothsayer

8.7 / 10
DramaTV MovieHistory

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.

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#13Watch That Space

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as Wally

8.8 / 10

Colin Welland presents this confined spaces training video from the Health and Safety Executive, detailing the hazards of entering any confined space without the neccessary awareness, training & equipment.

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#14Miss Julie

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as House Servant

8.0 / 10
Drama

A filmed Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play. Miss Julie, a nineteenth-century aristocrat's daughter, is attracted to one of the servants in her father's house.

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#15Arthur's Hallowed Ground

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Foreman

7.4 / 10
ComedyTV Movie

Arthur is the groundsman. He's a perfectionist who has lovingly tended the cricket pitch for 45 years. Now he is given a new assistant.

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#16The Muscle Market

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Costello the Second

7.0 / 10
CrimeDramaTV Movie

Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling out of the building game, Duggan finds that playing at gangster is only fun when you're on the winning side.

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#17Sunshine in Brixton

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Jackson

8.8 / 10
Drama

Sixteen-year-old Otis loathes school. He wants to be a professional footballer, but is good at drawing, so his mother wants him to be a draughtsman. Then, a new sports teacher appears at his South London comprehensive school, and life starts to look a little more hopeful...

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#18The Pledge

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as The Tinker

5.5 / 10
DramaHorror

Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.

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