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Ronald Lacey

Highest Rated: 93% Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Lowest Rated: 21% Red Sonja (1985)

Birthday: Sep 28, 1935

Birthplace: Harrow, London, England, UK

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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Highest rated movies

93% 96% Raiders of the Lost Ark Watchlist
86% 63% Flesh & Blood
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80% 47% Having a Wild Weekend
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74% 76% The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck
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66% 69% The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
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50% 61% Zulu Dawn
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50% 52% Of Human Bondage
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50% 29% Nijinsky
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44% 60% How I Won the War
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41% 42% Firefox
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
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 46% The Great Escape II: The Untold Story Winston Churchill (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet 25% Jailbird Rock Warden Bauman (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet 20% Sky Bandits Fritz (Character) $1.5M 1986
No Score Yet 33% The Lone Runner Misha (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet 41% Aces Go Places IV The Boss (Character) - 1986
21% 29% Red Sonja Ikol (Character) - 1985
86% 63% Flesh & Blood Cardinal (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 29% Sword of the Valiant Oswald (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet 54% Making the Grade Nicky (Character) - 1984
66% 69% The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension President Widmark (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet 53% Sahara Beg (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 33% Trenchcoat Princess Aida (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Invitation to the Wedding Clara/Charles Eatwell (Character) - 1983
41% 42% Firefox Semelovsky (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tangier Wedderburn (Character) - 1982
93% 96% Raiders of the Lost Ark Toht (Character) $248.2M 1981
50% 29% Nijinsky Leon Bakst (Character) - 1980
50% 61% Zulu Dawn Norris Newman (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Charleston Frankie (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 78% The Likely Lads Ernie (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gawain and the Green Knight Oswald (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 0% Take a Girl Like You Graham (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet 17% Otley Curtis (Character) - 1969
44% 60% How I Won the War Spool (Character) - 1967
74% 76% The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck Village Idiot (Character) - 1967
80% 47% Having a Wild Weekend Yeano (Character) - 1965
50% 52% Of Human Bondage 'Matty' Mathews (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet 89% 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/Picasso/Lowell Xavier Jameson (Guest Star) 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