
Things you possibly didn't know about Ronald, that he :
* was born in Chester, the son of Daisy and Eric Pickup, who was a lecturer and after going to school at King's School trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
* started his tv career in an episode during the second series of 'Doctor Who' in 1964, for which he was paid £ 30 and 9 years later was starring in 'The Dragon's Opponent' as a Second World War bomb disposal expert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fAGf1kdAOY
* in 1982, starred in the title role as composer in the acclaimed ' The Life of Verdi' written and directed by Renato Castellani.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h83x3b37MVk&feature=related
* in 1987, gave a highly acclaimed performance as a decayed Russian aristocrat in the BBC series 'Fortunes of War', based on a work by Olivia Manning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyHl1DGPZ8Y&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1p_NaEU8QE
* in 1990 read from 'Murphy' in a BBC tribute to Samuel Beckett, who had died in 1989.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ktVo76TcN4&feature=related
* in 2011, was one of the main characters, Norman, an aged lothario, constantly on the lookout for a new woman and unable to face up to his own age and consequent undesirability for young women. He seeks a new start with new possibilities in Indiain 'Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je109DoMAHc&feature=fvsr
Old men of Britain say : " Keep on working Ronald and gracing our screens with your presence as you have done for the last half a century !"
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