Bryan Pringle was born on January 19, 1935 in Glascote, Staffordshire, England. He was an actor, known for Brazil (1985), The Legend of 1900 (1998) and Drowning by Numbers (1988). He was married to Anne Jameson. He died on May 15, 2002 in London, England.
In 1962 he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company's experimental season at the Arts Theatre.
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Trained at RADA where he won the Bancroft Gold Medal (1954). He then gained a good grounding in the classics with the Old Vic Theatre company (1955-1957).
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The son of a vicar.
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Grew up in Bolton, Lancashire
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Henry IV Part II
1979
TV Movie
Pistol
Dick Turpin
1979
TV Series
Abel Jeames
BBC2 Play of the Week
1979
TV Series
Len Wiles
Room Service
1979
TV Series
Charles Spooner
Shadows
1978
TV Series
Mr. Donn
Pickersgill People
1978
TV Series
Insp. Ernest Bent
Sense of Place
1978
TV Series
Kim
Wings
1978
TV Series
Lofty Woodbridge
Some Enchanted Evening
1978
TV Movie
The Goodies
1977
TV Series
The Tourmaster
Survivors
1977
TV Series
Leonard Woollen
Jabberwocky
1977
Guard at Gate
Two's Company
1977
TV Series
Sid
Mr. Quilp
1975
Mr. Garland
The Growing Pains of PC Penrose
1975
TV Series
Sergeant Flagg
Centre Play
1975
TV Series
Man
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
1974
TV Series
Jackson
The Pallisers
1974
TV Mini-Series
Mr. Monk
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1971-1974
TV Series
Uncle Mad / Stanley
Bedtime Stories
1974
TV Series
Arthur Burr
BBC Play of the Month
1973
TV Series
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1966-1973
TV Series
Bill / Derek / The White Suddsy Man / ...
Public Eye
1966-1973
TV Series
Donald Reading / Simpkins
Softly Softly: Task Force
1973
TV Series
Simmonds
Thirty Minutes Worth
1972
TV Series
Man at the Top
1972
TV Series
Bainbridge
Love Story
1972
TV Series
Wally
The Boy Friend
1971
Percy Parkhill / Percy Browne
Armchair Theatre
1971
TV Series
Arthur
Boswell's Life of Johnson
1971
TV Movie
Sir John Hawkins
The Flaxton Boys
1970
TV Series
Crazy Will
The Dustbinmen
1969-1970
TV Series
Cheese and Egg
Cromwell
1970
Trooper Hawkins (scenes deleted)
Spring and Port Wine
1970
Bowler 3
The Undertakers
1969
Short
Milkman
The Wednesday Play
1966-1969
TV Series
Trumper / Geordie
Z Cars
1962-1969
TV Series
Gordon Gosling / Harry Dunlop / Mr. Nicholson / ...
Boy Meets Girl
1969
TV Series
Shop Assistant
Diamonds for Breakfast
1968
Police Sergeant
Sexton Blake
1967
TV Series
Henry Brown
The Gamblers
1967
TV Series
Arthur
Berserk
1967
Constable Bradford
How I Won the War
1967
Reporter
Escape
1967
TV Series
Lofty
Theatre 625
1967
TV Series
Jack / Mr. Hunter
ITV Play of the Week
1960-1967
TV Series
Jim Ryder / Jackson / Hobdean / ...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1967
TV Series
Mr. Sorley Wilson
Harry Worth
1966
TV Series
The Marriage Lines
1966
TV Series
Agent
Hereward the Wake
1965
TV Series
Martin Lightfoot
The Early Bird
1965
Austin
A Slight Case of...
1965
TV Series
The Sullavan Brothers
1965
TV Series
Alderman Slater
Monitor
1965
TV Series documentary
Pere Ubu
Londoners
1965
TV Series
Bob
Gideon C.I.D.
1965
TV Series
John Stewart
World of His Own
1965
TV Series
Six
1964
TV Series
Mr. Charles Pooter
The Hidden Truth
1964
TV Series
Police Sgt. Robert Oakman
Armchair Mystery Theatre
1964
TV Series
Mr. Plasker
French Dressing
1964
The Mayor
Ring of Treason
1964
Surveillance Man (uncredited)
First Night
1964
TV Series
Stan / Methy Boy
Comedy Playhouse
1963
TV Series
Froggy
Maupassant
1963
TV Series
Coruu
Corrigan Blake
1963
TV Series
Big George
The Plane Makers
1963
TV Series
Ron Barby
The Old Curiosity Shop
1962-1963
TV Mini-Series
Sampson Brass
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
Driver (uncredited)
No Hiding Place
1962
TV Series
Geordie Morton
The Brain
1962
Dance-Hall MC (uncredited)
BBC Sunday-Night Play
1962
TV Mini-Series
Bill Adams
Damn the Defiant!
1962
Sgt. Kneebone
Spare the Rod
1961
Drunken Father (uncredited)
The Bulldog Breed
1960
PTI (uncredited)
The Sundowners
1960
PC Thomas (uncredited)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960
Jack
Boyd Q.C.
1960
TV Series
P.C. Nutting
Scotland Yard
1960
TV Series
Detective Constable Hamilton
ITV Television Playhouse
1960
TV Series
Larry White
It Takes a Thief
1960
Sergeant
Knight Errant Limited
1960
TV Series
Mick
The Dark Pits of War
1960
TV Short
A Corporal
Probation Officer
1960
TV Series
Ken Goodwin
Emergency-Ward 10
1959
TV Series
Bill Whitby
Theatre Night
1959
TV Series
611 Private Smith, P.
Barbara
2003
TV Series
Mr. Cooper
My Uncle Silas
2003
TV Mini-Series
Walter Hawthorn
Lover's Prayer
2001
Stepan
Where the Heart Is
2001
TV Series
Tom Merrick
King's Ransom
2000
Short
Harry
Ruth Rendell Mysteries
2000
TV Series
Tommy Smith
The Tree with the Golden Apples
2000
TV Short
Marieke's Father (voice)
Sunburn
2000
TV Series
Big Dylan
Darkness Falls
1999
Mr. Hayter
The Day Grandad Went Blind
1998
Short
Grandad
Vanity Fair
1998
TV Mini-Series
Raggles
B. Monkey
1998
Goodchild
La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano
1998
Civil Servant
A Prince Among Men
1997-1998
TV Series
Vince Hibbert
Dalziel and Pascoe
1998
TV Series
John Huby
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1998
TV Movie
Kail
A Dance to the Music of Time
1997
TV Mini-Series
Smith
Heartbeat
1997
TV Series
Ned
Wokenwell
1997
TV Series
Sadly Stan Potter
Snow White: A Tale of Terror
1997
Father Gilbert
Soul Music
1997
TV Mini-Series
Albert
Peak Practice
1997
TV Series
Jim Barraclough
Murder Most Horrid
1996
TV Series
Mr. Franklin
The Detectives
1996
TV Series
Fatha
Cruel Train
1995
TV Movie
Maurice Mussell
Restoration
1995
Watchman
Heavy Weather
1995
TV Movie
Pirbright
Mayday Mayday
1995
Short
Grenville Wooley
The Steal
1995
Cecil, Bank Doorman
Pleasure
1994
TV Movie
Flaubert
Moving Story
1994
TV Series
Branwell
Once Upon a Time in the North
1994
TV Series
Mr. Bebbington
So Haunt Me
1994
TV Series
Arnold
Olly's Prison
1993
TV Movie
Barry
Performance
1992
TV Series
Stan Mann
Young Indiana Jones
1992
TV Series
Zachariah Sloat
My Kingdom for a Horse
1991
TV Series
Steve's Father
Boon
1991
TV Series
Bull
Rumpole of the Bailey
1991
TV Series
Ben Baker
Prime Suspect
1991
TV Mini-Series
Felix Norman
American Friends
1991
Haskell
Lovejoy
1991
TV Series
Malcolm Tandy
Dark River
1990
TV Movie
Reverend Merrilees
Grime Goes Green: Your Business and the Environment
1990
Video
3 Men and a Little Lady
1990
Old Englishman
Debut on Two
1990
TV Series
Father
Crimestrike
1990
Super
All Creatures Great and Small
1988-1990
TV Series
Grimsdale
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
TV Series
Wally Butters
Wish Me Luck
1990
TV Series
Father Martin aka Rex
Alfonso Bonzo
1990
TV Series
Mr. Hardwood
Screenplay
1989
TV Series
Maurice
Getting It Right
1989
Mr. Lamb
Capstick's Law
1989
TV Series
Geoff Turnbull
Flying Lady
1989
TV Series
Jimmy Fisher
After Henry
1989
TV Series
Denis
Inspector Morse
1989
TV Series
Barker
Blind Justice
1988
TV Mini-Series
David Charnley
Drowning by Numbers
1988
Jake
Les Girls
1988
TV Series
Leslie
King & Castle
1988
TV Series
George Fossett
Consuming Passions
1988
Gateman
The Management
1988
TV Series
Mr. Crusty
The Storyteller
1988
TV Series
Cook
Casualty
1987
TV Series
George Tomlinson
First Sight
1987
TV Series
Malcolm
Theatre Night
1987
TV Series
Sergeant Match
The Oldest Goose in the Business
1986
TV Movie
Broker's Man
Unnatural Causes
1986
TV Series
Bundock
Paradise Postponed
1986
TV Mini-Series
Percy Bigwell
The Theban Plays by Sophocles
1986
TV Series
Chorus
Haunted Honeymoon
1986
Pfister
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1986
TV Series
Arthur Pringle
Macho
1986
TV Movie
Inspector David Colston
Turtle Diary
1985
Zoo Receptionist (uncredited)
Summer Season
1985
TV Series
Superintendent of Police
Late Starter
1985
TV Series
Tom
Brazil
1985
Spiro
Bird Fancier
1985
TV Movie
Mick
This Office Life
1984
TV Movie
Commissionaire
The Irish R.M.
1984
TV Series
Mr. Tebbutt
Play for Today
1972-1984
TV Series
Henry / Nelson
Miracles Take Longer
1984
TV Series
Mr. Wintle
Cockles
1984
TV Series
Ernie
Faerie Tale Theatre
1984
TV Series
The Young Visiters
1984
Minnit the Butler
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
TV Movie
Reg
Bullshot Crummond
1983
Waiter
Hallelujah!
1983
TV Series
Ebenezer Dickens
Last of the Summer Wine
1983
TV Series
Ludovic
The Bell
1982
TV Series
Patchway
Towers of Babel
1981
Short
When the Boat Comes In
1981
TV Series
Doughty
The Good Companions
1980-1981
TV Mini-Series
Morton Mitcham
The Professionals
1980
TV Series
Case
Henry V
1979
TV Movie
Pistol
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Haunted Honeymoon
1986
performer: "Isn't It Romantic"
The Boy Friend
1971
performer: "Any Old Iron", "Fancy Forgetting", "The 'You-Don't-Want-to-Play-with-Me-Blues'"
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
I Love Christmas
2001
TV Special documentary
Himself
The Last Machine
1995
TV Series
Various
Natural World
1984
TV Series documentary
Jan Twrdy
The Royal Variety Performance
1975
TV Movie
Himself
The First Train Now Arriving...
1975
TV Movie documentary
George Stephenson
Showtime
1960
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ade in Adland
2013
TV Mini-Series documentary
Gilda Radner's Greatest Moments
2002
TV Special
Himself
The 100 Greatest TV Ads
2000
TV Special
Heineken Man (uncredited)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life