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Acting

Ballard Berkeley

Career: Active from 1930 to 1990, with a break from 1938 to 1952, busiest in 1954 with 3 main titles.

Leading roles: 4
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: Fawlty Towers
93/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 44 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Ballard Berkeley Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.3, average 5.4
Coming of Age
1.8, average 3.0
Pathos
4.0, average 5.3
Melancholy
3.5, average 4.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Setting 2
Historical Drama 2
Intrigue and Suspense 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

86

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

as Major Gowen (archive footage) (uncredited)

1990s

1 title · average score 65

The BFG

65

as Head of the Army (voice)

1980s

6 titles · average score 60

National Lampoon's European Vacation

50

as English Motorist #2

Fresh Fields

67

TV show · as Guy Penrose

Me & My Girl

60

TV show · as Major D'Arcy Pendleton

That's My Boy

68

TV show · as Comm. Buckley

Little Lord Fauntleroy

75

as Harry Lorradaile

The Wildcats of St Trinian's

41

as Humphry Wills

1970s

17 titles · average score 58

Queen of the Blues

30

as Uncle Fred (as Ballard Barclay)

Terry and June

64

TV show · as Colonel Culpepper / Sir Arthur Forster-Carter

The Playbirds

44

as Trainer

The New Avengers

72

TV show · as Colonel Foster

Confessions of a Driving Instructor

38

as Lord Edgar Snodley

Fawlty Towers

93

TV show · as Major Gowen

Oh, Father!

TV show · as Dr Grant

Are You Being Served?

51

TV show · as Angler

Sykes

70

TV show · as Lord Plunket-Taylor

Bless This House

72

TV show · as Group Captain

The Goodies

77

TV show · as Chairman of the British Olympic Committee

The Weekend Murders

55

as Peter, the butler

1960s

20 titles · average score 61

The Main Chance

TV show · as Major Dibbyn

Hadleigh

TV show · as Lord Cranford

Till Death Us Do Part

75

TV show · as Golfer

The Night Caller

55

as Cmdr. Savage

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Cornford

TV show · as Major Lamb

The Wednesday Play

TV show · as First Committee Member

Sherlock Holmes

72

TV show · as Sir Charles Baskerville / Sir James Damery

A Matter of Choice

as Charles Grant

Impact

50

as Bill MacKenzie

Coronation Street

54

TV show · as Colonel Cantrill

Maigret

74

TV show · as Dr. Pardon

1950s

30 titles · average score 62

No Hiding Place

TV show · as Simmy Knowles

The Betrayal

as Lawson

After the Ball

as Andrews

The Buccaneers

68

TV show · as Rafton

The Adventures of Robin Hood

46

TV show · as Tybalt / Count de Waldern

Dixon of Dock Green

64

TV show · as Mr. Noakes / Joe Magnus

The Men of Sherwood Forest

62

as Walter

Dangerous Cargo

as Findley

Delayed Action

as Insp. Crane

The Blue Parrot

56

as Supt. Chester

Operation Diplomat

62

as Inspector Austin

Sunday Night Theatre

51

TV show · as Bentley

1940s

4 titles · average score 70

They Made Me a Fugitive

73

as Rockliffe

Quiet Weekend

58

as Jim Brent

In Which We Serve

80

as Engineer Commander

The Flying Squad

as Smuggler in Airplane

1930s

7 titles · average score 54

The Saint in London

54

as Richard Blake

The Gang's All Here

as Detective in Nightclub

Black Eyes

as Diner

Jennifer Hale

as Richard Severn

East Meets West

as Nazim

The Chinese Bungalow

as Richard Marquess

London Melody

as Jan Moor