John Fraser
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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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 8.389 |
Birthday | 1931-03-18 |
Place of Birth | Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
Also Known As | John Alexander Fraser, |
1965
Repulsion
7.42/976
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leave...
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Repulsion
1965
Operation Crossbow
6.748/105
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between Ge...
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Operation Crossbow
1962
Waltz of the Toreadors
4.75/10
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire, some...
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Waltz of the Toreadors
1960
Tunes of Glory
7.1/54
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, wit...
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Tunes of Glory
1959
The Gentle Flame
0/0
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The Gentle Flame
1974
The Arcata Promise
0/0
A down on his luck actor is haunted by his failed career and the promise he made to a young girl he loved but couldn’t keep thanks to his abusive and...
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The Arcata Promise
1961
El Cid
6.858/264
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeed...
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El Cid
1958
The Wind Cannot Read
6.3/10
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and...
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The Wind Cannot Read
1966
Doctor in Clover
6/12
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospi...
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Doctor in Clover
1963
Tamahine
4.7/8
The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier...
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Tamahine
1960
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
6.4/24
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with th...
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1969
The Ha-Ha
0/0
A young woman has a mental breakdown in a state institution.
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The Ha-Ha
1961
Fury at Smugglers' Bay
4.6/5
It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British shores. B...
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Fury at Smugglers' Bay
1957
The Good Companions
0/0
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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The Good Companions
1953
Valley of Song
0/0
A little Welsh village is sundered by rival factions when a coveted contralto role in the "Messiah" is given to Mrs. Davies instead of Mrs. Lloyd. Bas...
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Valley of Song
1955
Touch and Go
6.3/9
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to u...
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Touch and Go
1961
The Picture of Dorian Gray
0/0
Despite an increasingly sinful life, Dorian Gray keeps on looking young and handsome and innocent - but the portrait of him hidden in his attic keeps...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1953
The Desert Rats
6.247/87
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important p...
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The Desert Rats
1972
The Man and the Snake
0/0
A young man visits the house of a snake collector...horror ensues
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The Man and the Snake
1970
The People’s Jack
0/0
A musical version of the life of the 17th Century English radical politician, John Wilkes, who campaigned for the right for voters to determine their...
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The People’s Jack
1970
The Day They Buried Cleaver
0/0
The Chief Constable of a grimy northern town runs it his particular way with all natural human failings, bending the rules for the benefit of the majo...
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The Day They Buried Cleaver
1953
The Good Beginning
0/0
After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day...
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The Good Beginning
1975
The Doll
7/1
Thriller based on Francis Durbridge
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The Doll
1976
Schizo
5.603/29
A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of m...
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Schizo
1968
Isadora
6.034/29
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance pro...
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Isadora
1981
Doctor Who: Logopolis
6.5/4
After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting stowaway aboard the TARDIS as it travels to the pla...
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Doctor Who: Logopolis
1961
The Horsemasters
7/2
American students are having a difficult time at a prestigious English riding school. Dinah Wilcox is overly cautious because of memories of an accide...
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The Horsemasters
1954
Loves of Three Queens
0/0
At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, re...
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Loves of Three Queens
1955
The Dam Busters
6.801/133
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 S...
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The Dam Busters
1965
A Study in Terror
6.266/62
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediate...
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A Study in Terror
1954
The Fate of Two Queens
0/0
Anthology film in which Hedy Lamarr plays 2 queens during 2 different time periods. Ulmer directed the Genoveffa di Brabante part whereas Allégret was...
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The Fate of Two Queens
1983
The Secret Adversary
6.8/8
After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue...
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The Secret Adversary
1964
A Midsummer Night's Dream
0/0
Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1963
The Patriots
0/0
Thomas Jefferson has just returned from France, hoping to relax with his daughters at Monticello. George Washington however, has a favor to ask of him...
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