John Fraser
Birthday: 1931-03-18
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Alexander Fraser (1931 - 2020 was a Scottish actor and author. He is best known for his performances in the films The Good Companions (1957), The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960), El Cid (1961), Repulsion (1965), and Isadora (1968). One of his earliest roles was as Inigo Jollifant in the second film version of J. B. Priestley's The Good Companions (1957). He went on to have leading roles in films such as El Cid, The Trials of Oscar Wilde (playing Lord Alfred Douglas), Roman Polanski's Repulsion, Isadora, and Schizo. He made appearances on television series including Danger Man (1964), Randall and Hopkirk (1969), Columbo (1972), Doctor Who (1981), and The Bill (1995). In 2004, he published his autobiography, Close Up, in which he wrote frankly about his gay life and friendships.
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Repulsion
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction wit...
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Operation Crossbow
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and ...
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Waltz of the Toreadors
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and s...
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Tunes of Glory
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major...
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The Arcata Promise
A down on his luck actor is haunted by his failed career and the promise he made to a young girl he ...
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El Cid
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without comp...
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The Wind Cannot Read
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They sta...
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Doctor in Clover
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the ...
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Tamahine
The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and ve...
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son...
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Fury at Smugglers' Bay
It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupati...
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The Good Companions
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth....
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Valley of Song
A little Welsh village is sundered by rival factions when a coveted contralto role in the "Messiah" ...
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Touch and Go
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the fir...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his ...
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The Desert Rats
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British for...
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The Man and the Snake
A young man visits the house of a snake collector...horror ensues...
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The People’s Jack
A musical version of the life of the 17th Century English radical politician, John Wilkes, who camp...
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The Day They Buried Cleaver
The Chief Constable of a grimy northern town runs it his particular way with all natural human faili...
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The Good Beginning
After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the ...
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The Doll
Peter Matty a successful has his world is turned upside down when he meets the beautiful Phyllis Du ...
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Schizo
A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone c...
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Isadora
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of bal...
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Doctor Who: Logopolis
After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting s...
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The Horsemasters
American students are having a difficult time at a prestigious English riding school. Dinah Wilcox i...
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Loves of Three Queens
At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But...
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The Dam Busters
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...
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A Study in Terror
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few d...
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The Fate of Two Queens
Anthology film in which Hedy Lamarr plays 2 queens during 2 different time periods. Ulmer directed t...
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The Secret Adversary
After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppenc...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged wit...
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The Patriots
Thomas Jefferson has just returned from France, hoping to relax with his daughters at Monticello. Ge...
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Would You Look at Them Smashing All Those Lovely Windows
Drama about the 1914-16 Irish uprising, from the perspective of Irish rebels and English military pl...
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