Ronald Radd (born 22 January 1929 – 23 April 1976) was a British television actor.Radd starred in some 60 different TV shows between 1955 and 1976 including The Avengers, Danger Man, and Z-Cars. He also played the role of the villain Pargiter in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) in 1969 in the sixth episode, "Just for the Record" where he grew a lengthy beard resembling Henry VIII, and played "Hunter" in the first series of the spy drama Callan.Radd began as a stage actor in the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham in the early-1950s, along with the likes of Leslie Sands and Edward Mulhare. By 1954, Radd had graduated to the West End, where he was a most unlikely co-star with Kenneth Williams in two different productions in the Apollo Theatre in February 1956, The Buccaneer and The Boy Friend. Several months later, he was again with Kenneth Williams in a revival (at the Winter Garden) of Feydeau's Hotel Paradiso, but the billing went to Alec Guinness, who made a film of it years later, but not with Radd or Williams.Radd gradually lost interest in theatre and broke into television in Ordeal by Fire in 1957 as a dastardly Frenchman, a single play costume piece involving Joan of Arc (played by Elizabeth Sellars) with Peter Wyngarde and Patrick Troughton whom he later starred with in 1958 in the BBC production of A Tale Of Two Cities.Radd's next few TV credits actually took place across the Atlantic; this was less unusual then than now, with many of the American networks' studios still being located in New York, where many British actors were working in the theatre. Radd made a number of appearances in the CBC production The Shari Lewis Show between 1960 and 1963, and in 1960 appeared in the production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh directed by Sidney Lumet, who also directed him in the 1968 feature film adaptation of The Sea Gull and The Offence in 1973. In 1969 he appeared in John Huston's The Kremlin Letter. Radd worked alongside actors such as a very young Robert Redford and Jason Robards. A busy year—Radd also appeared in the NBC production of The Tempest playing the role of the drunkard Stefano, alongside acclaimed actors such as Richard Burton who portrayed Caliban and Maurice Evans, star of many Hallmark productions later.In 1971 he was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured actor.He died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada of a brain haemorrhage in 1976 aged 47.
Stocky, balding character actor, who looked somewhat older than his years. Made his professional acting debut with the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham in the early 50's and later graduated to the London West End. Radd became a prolific TV actor from 1955, playing an assortment of volatile Eastern Europeans, Cold War spooks and the odd Latin American dictator.
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Was nominated for Broadway's 1971 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for "Abelard and Heloise."
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Drama
1977
TV Series
Corinthian shepherd
John Macnab
1976
TV Series
Professor Bandicott
Red Letter Day
1976
TV Series
Andy Banks
Z Cars
1962-1976
TV Series
Gus Haggerty / Tim Maddocks
The Prince and the Pauper
1976
TV Series
King Henry
Shades of Greene
1976
TV Series
Sir Henry Clinton
The Stars Look Down
1975
TV Mini-Series
Tom Heddon
Operation: Daybreak
1975
Carl, Aunt Marie's Husband
Crown Court
1973-1975
TV Series
Angelos Da Costa / Howard Moore
The Main Chance
1970-1975
TV Series
Lord Arkwright / Joseph Elvin
Barlow at Large
1975
TV Series
Soness
The Spiral Staircase
1975
Oates
Galileo
1975
Vanni
King Lear
1974
TV Series
Gloucester
ITV Playhouse
1974
TV Series
Mr. Harris
Hunter's Walk
1974
TV Series
Digger Davies
Special Branch
1974
TV Series
Leonard Gosling
The Protectors
1973
TV Series
Jerry Butler
Great Mysteries
1973
TV Series
Leduc
Sutherland's Law
1973
TV Series
Captain Piet Mees
Thriller
1973
TV Series
Supt. Terson
Nearest and Dearest
1973
TV Series
Will O'Fred's
Divorce His - Divorce Hers
1973
TV Movie
Angus McIntyre
The View from Daniel Pike
1973
TV Series
McCaw
The Offence
1973
Lawson
The Adventurer
1973
TV Series
Hilverston
Armchair Theatre
1962-1972
TV Series
Alfred / Duckworth / Hunter / ...
Softly Softly: Task Force
1970-1972
TV Series
Austin / Alderman Whitaker
Jason King
1972
TV Series
Alfred Thistle
Callan
1967-1972
TV Series
Hunter #1
Previous Hunter
Colonel Leslie
The Dustbinmen
1970
TV Series
Alderman Wentworth
The Kremlin Letter
1970
Captain Potkin
Department S
1969
TV Series
Allison
Take Three Girls
1969
TV Series
Bill Fletcher
My Partner the Ghost
1969
TV Series
Pargiter
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
1969
Critic Bentley
The Champions
1969
TV Series
Commandante
The Saint
1963-1969
TV Series
Henri Flambeau / Roberto Vittorini / Byron Ufferlitz
Journey to the Unknown
1969
TV Series
Wally Gold
The Sea Gull
1968
Shamraev
The Jazz Age
1968
TV Series
Tutu
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them