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Ballard Berkeley (born Ballard Blascheck; 6 August 1903 – 16 January 1988) was an English actor of stage and screen. He played Major Gowen in the British television sitcom ''Fawlty Towers''. ==Life and career== The son of Joseph and Beatrice Blascheck, he was born in Margate, Kent. He served as a Special Constable with the Metropolitan Police during World War II, witnessing the Blitz at first hand.〔(Profile ), timeout.com/london; accessed 30 August 2014.〕 Berkeley played the role of the bumbling Major Gowen in the BBC TV comedy ''Fawlty Towers''. He had played a similar role in 1969 in the legal drama ''The Main Chance''. He portrayed another retired military man (Colonel Freddie Danby) in BBC Radio 4's ''The Archers'', taking over the role from Norman Shelley. He played a starring role in ''Fresh Fields'' as main character Hester's father Guy, was Uncle Greville in ''To the Manor Born'', and played Colonel Culpepper in ''Terry and June''. He had small roles in a 1977 episode of ''Citizen Smith'' and the 1980 adaptation of ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'', and appeared once in ''The New Avengers'' as Colonel Foster in the episode "Dirtier by the Dozen".He had a small role in the BBC sitcom "Hi de Hi" series 5 "Empty Saddles" During the 1930s, he performed regularly in the so-called "quota quickies". One of his earliest roles was as the heroic lead in the 1937 film ''The Last Adventurers''.〔(Profile ), radiotimes.com; accessed 30 August 2014.〕 He appeared in the 1942 film ''In Which We Serve'' – he also appeared in the Hitchcock film ''Stage Fright''. In 1956, he starred as Detective Inspector Berkeley in one episode of Edgar Lustgarten's drama series, ''Scotland Yard'', "Person Unknown". He made a brief appearance in the American film ''National Lampoon's European Vacation'' which starred Chevy Chase. In this film, Berkeley played a British man who is involved in a minor road accident with the Griswalds. Berkeley later performed the role of Winston - a similar character to "The Major" - in the radio comedy ''Wrinkles'' by Doug Naylor and Rob Grant. He played Badedas the Blue, a wizard in the radio comedy series ''Hordes of the Things''. His last role was as the Head of the Army in the animated film version of Roald Dahl's ''The BFG''. He died in 1988, and the film was released the following year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ballard Berkeley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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