Acting

Ronald Forfar

Born June 1, 1939 · Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom

Died October 11, 2020 · aged 81

Actor and writer better known for the BBC sitcom Bread.

Known For

Arthur's Hallowed GroundArthur's Hallowed Ground · 1984
Arthur's Hallowed Ground
7.01984
MovieComedyTV Movie
Arthur is the groundsman. He's a perfectionist who has lovingly tended the cricket pitch for 45 years. Now he is given a new assistant.
Squaring the CircleSquaring the Circle · 1984
Squaring the Circle
5.01984
MovieDramaTV Movie
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
Julius CaesarJulius Caesar · 1979
Julius Caesar
8.71979
MovieDramaTV Movie
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
King LearKing Lear · 1983
King Lear
6.71983
MovieDramaTV Movie
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Miss JulieMiss Julie · 1972
Miss Julie
8.01972
MovieDrama
A filmed Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play. Miss Julie, a nineteenth-century aristocrat's daughter, is attracted to one of the servants in her father's house.
The Muscle MarketThe Muscle Market · 1981
The Muscle Market
7.01981
MovieCrimeDrama
Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling out of the building game, Duggan finds that playing at gangster is only fun when you're on the winning side.
Watch That SpaceWatch That Space · 1978
Watch That Space
1978
Movie
Colin Welland presents this confined spaces training video from the Health and Safety Executive, detailing the hazards of entering any confined space without the neccessary awareness, training & equipment.
Henry VHenry V · 1979
Henry V
6.21979
MovieDramaWar
Insulted by the Dauphin, the newly-crowned King Henry V gathers his troops for war. But Henry must convince his men that he has left his wild days behind, and prove himself as a leader.

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BreadBread · 1986
Bread
7.01986
SeriesComedy
Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991. The series focused on the devoutly-Catholic and extended Boswell family of Liverpool, in the district of Dingle, led by its matriarch Nellie through a number of ups and downs as they tried to make their way through life in Thatcher's Britain with no visible means of support. The street shown at the start of each programme is Elswick Street. A family called Boswell had also featured in Lane's earlier sitcom The Liver Birds and Lane admitted in interviews that the two families were probably related. Nellie's feckless and estranged husband, Freddie, left her for another woman known as 'Lilo Lill'. Her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Aveline and Billy continued to live in the family home in Kelsall Street and contributed money to the central family fund, largely through benefit fraud and the sale of stolen goods.

Freddie Boswell