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Acting

Ronald Pickup

Career: Active from 1967 to 2025, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 25
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: Verdi
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 85 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Ronald Pickup Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.1, average 5.4
Absurdist Humor
1.0, average 2.0
Pop Culture
1.2, average 2.2
Adrenaline
3.9, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Political Intrigue 5
Historical Drama 5
Character Study 5
Period Piece 3
Character-Driven 3
British Television 2
Melancholy Tone 2
Period Drama 2
Classic Literature 2
Character-Driven Narrative 2
Emotional Journey 2
Classical Music 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

143

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

Still Got It

as Jim

2020s

2 titles

Schadenfreude

as The Gambler

End of Term

as Damian Self

2010s

14 titles · average score 65

Darkest Hour

77

as Neville Chamberlain

Stealing Silver

68

as Udo

The Time of Their Lives

32

as Frank

The Crown

82

TV show · as Archbishop of Canterbury

The Have-Nots

as Bentham

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

60

as Norman Cousins

A Little Place Off the Edgware Road

as Bearded Man

Atlantis

60

TV show · as Orpheus

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

70

as Norman Cousins

Vera

60

TV show · as Mr. Kipford

Downton Abbey

86

TV show · as Sir Michael Reresby

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

52

as King Sharaman

2000s

26 titles · average score 66

Dark Floors

39

as Tobias

Lark Rise to Candleford

83

TV show

Lewis

80

TV show · as Fr Moreno Mancini

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby

60

as Cecil Johnson

Evilenko

55

as Aron Richter

The Worst Week of My Life

80

TV show · as Fraser Cook

Feather Boy

76

TV show · as Ernest Sorrel

Hustle

73

TV show · as Harry Holmes

New Tricks

83

TV show · as Sir Wilfred Felspar

Foyle's War

83

TV show · as Sir Giles Messinger

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

81

TV show · as Sir Stuart Stinhurst

Waking the Dead

50

TV show · as Charles Sutton

1990s

33 titles · average score 63

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Rupert Smythe-Webster / Ernest Balliol

Lolita

62

as Young Humbert's Father

Silent Witness

75

TV show

A Very Open Prison

as Brian Silcott

The Riff Raff Element

TV show · as Roger Tundish

Milner

as Jocelyn Fry

The Rector's Wife

TV show · as Daniel Byrne

A Time to Dance

TV show · as Andrew Powell

Absolute Hell

as Siegfried Shrager

A Murder of Quality

60

as Felix D'Arcy

Not with a Bang

TV show · as Brian Appleyard

Jekyll & Hyde

58

as Jeffrey Utterson, Esquire

1980s

37 titles · average score 66

Behaving Badly

53

TV show

The Hound of the Baskervilles

73

as Barrymore

The Mission

68

as Hontar

Casualty

62

TV show · as Martin / Reginald Freeborn

Eleni

75

as Spiro

Sherlock Holmes

88

TV show · as Barrymore

Waters of the Moon

as Julius Winterhalter

Verdi

76

TV show · as Giuseppe Verdi

Ivanhoe

68

as Prince John

Verdi

90

as Giuseppe Verdi

The Letter

as Howard Joyce

Nijinsky

49

as Igor Stravinsky

1970s

22 titles · average score 67

Zulu Dawn

61

as Lt. Harford

The Thirty Nine Steps

62

as Bayliss

The BBC Television Shakespeare

TV show · as Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

BBC2 Play of the Week

TV show · as Norman Reynolds / Ian

The Philanthropist

as Philip

The Fight Against Slavery

TV show · as William Pitt

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

78

as Lord Randolph Churchill

Father Brown

71

TV show · as Kalon

The Roses of Eyam

as Reverend William Mompesson

The Day of the Jackal

82

as The Forger

Long Day's Journey Into Night

as Edmund Tyrone

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Richard Massingham

1960s

7 titles · average score 68

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

TV show · as Edmund Tyrone

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Graham

Much Ado About Nothing

as Don Pedro

Romeo and Juliet

as Mercutio

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Edgar / Ariel

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror

68

as Physician

Doctor Who

76

TV show · as Physician

1950s

1 title · average score 84

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Jean