Ronald Lacey
Ronald Lacey had an unusual face: round cheeks with a large mole on the left side, beady eyes, and a warm smile that could quickly turn into a leer. His appearance led him to be cast in scores of roles as oddball characters and villains. After appearing in several stage plays, he made a move into British television, where he could be seen regularly throughout the 1960s. His turn in 1977 as Harris--a despicable, bungling mugger in the prison sitcom "Porridge"--was the first role to really take advantage of his strange looks. Nevertheless, at this point, dissatisfied with the work he was getting, Lacey considered quitting the business and starting a talent agency. In 1981, however, he was cast in his best known role as Major Arnold Toht, the villainous Nazi Gestapo agent in Steven Spielberg's classic action-adventure, "Raiders of the Lost Ark." After this high-profile part he was cast as the bad guy in a series of Hollywood pictures throughout the 1980s, including an uncredited appearance in 1989 as the Nazi Heinrich Himmler in the third film in Spielberg's Indiana Jones trilogy, "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." Lacey's career was sometimes marked by controversy, as he was a notorious drinker and thus a favorite target of the tabloids.
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Ronald Lacey
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Landslide | Fred Donner (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Face to Face | Dr. Brinkman (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story | Winston Churchill (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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Jailbird Rock | Warden Bauman (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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Sky Bandits | Fritz (Character) | $1.5M | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
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The Lone Runner | Misha (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
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Aces Go Places IV | The Boss (Character) | - | 1986 |
21% |
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Red Sonja | Ikol (Character) | - | 1985 |
86% |
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Flesh & Blood | Cardinal (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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Sword of the Valiant | Oswald (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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Making the Grade | Nicky (Character) | - | 1984 |
66% |
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension | President Widmark (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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Sahara | Beg (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
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Trenchcoat | Princess Aida (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Invitation to the Wedding |
Clara/ |
- | 1983 |
41% |
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Firefox | Semelovsky (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tangier | Wedderburn (Character) | - | 1982 |
93% |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark | Toht (Character) | $248.2M | 1981 |
50% |
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Nijinsky | Leon Bakst (Character) | - | 1980 |
50% |
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Zulu Dawn | Norris Newman (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charleston | Frankie (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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The Likely Lads | Ernie (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gawain and the Green Knight | Oswald (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
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Take a Girl Like You | Graham (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet |
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Otley | Curtis (Character) | - | 1969 |
44% |
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How I Won the War | Spool (Character) | - | 1967 |
74% |
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The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck | Village Idiot (Character) | - | 1967 |
80% |
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Having a Wild Weekend | Yeano (Character) | - | 1965 |
50% |
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Of Human Bondage | 'Matty' Mathews (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet |
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The Boys | Billy Herne (Character) | - | 1961 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ray Bradbury Theater | The Listener (Character) | 1988 |
85% | 88% | Blackadder the Third | Bishop of Bath and Wells (Character) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. |
Archer Hayes/ |
1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Jopp (Character) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Porridge | Unknown (Character) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fight Against Slavery | Charles James Fox (Character) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last of the Summer Wine | Walter (Character) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Colditz | Unknown (Character) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Civilisation | Gravedigger (Character) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | 87% | The Avengers | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967-1968 |