
Pickup was born in Chester, England, the son of Daisy (née Williams) and Eric Pickup, who was a lecturer.[1] Pickup was educated at The King's School, Chester, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, and became an Associate Member of RADA. His television work began with an episode during the second series of Doctor Who in 1964, for which he was paid £30. Pickup worked with Laurence Olivier at the Royal National Theatre, most notably in Three Sisters and Long Day's Journey Into Night. In 1973, he starred in the BBC drama series The Dragon's Opponent, playing a World War II bomb disposal expert and also appeared in The Day of the Jackal. He played Lt. Harford in Zulu Dawn in 1979, portrayed Igor Stravinsky in Nijinsky in 1980, Prince John in Ivanhoe in 1982, and in 1983 he appeared opposite Penelope Keith in Moving, in 1988 in the BBC miniseries The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988 TV Serial) as the voice of Aslan, and in 1990 he starred in the short lived sit-com, Not with a Bang. More modern roles have included parts in Hornblower, Hustle, Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders, Waking the Dead, The Bill, Silent Witness, Sherlock Holmes, and Inspector Morse. He is also a regular character in the BBC sitcom The Worst Week of My Life. His most recent appearance was in Holby City as Lord Charles Byrne. Pickup gave a highly acclaimed performance as a decayed Russian aristocrat in the BBC series Fortunes of War, based on a work by Olivia Manning. He also provided the voice for Aslan in the BBC's adaptation of the Chronicles of Narnia and starred opposite Judi Dench in the 1989 Channel 4 serial Behaving Badly. He is also an accomplished stage actor. He was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role of 1997 for his performance in Amy's View. Pickup had the starring role as composer Giuseppe Verdi in the acclaimed The Life of Verdi, written and directed by Renato Castellani. In 2005, he had a supporting role in the family-based film, The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby. Between March and August 2009, he starred as Lucky in Sean Mathias' production of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett opposite Sir Ian McKellen (Estragon), Patrick Stewart (Vladimir) and also Simon Callow (Pozzo). The tour opened in Malvern before travelling to Milton Keynes, Brighton, Bath, Norwich, Edinburgh and Newcastle; its run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket was extended due to demand. In February 2010 he also appeared as 'Pegleg' in the BBC's period drama Lark Rise to Candleford. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ronald Pickup, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

A Very Open Prison

Moving

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Lark Rise to Candleford

The Worst Week of My Life

ザ・クラウン

シャーロック・ホームズの冒険

ダウントン・アビー

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

コナン・ドイルの事件簿

The Fight Against Slavery

The Rector's Wife

Doctor Who

Inspector Morse

Foyle's War

Hornblower

Hustle

Sea of Souls

バーナビー警部

ジャッカルの日

法医学捜査班 silent witness

Feather Boy

ナルニア国物語 BBC版

Vera

ミッション

ウィンストン・チャーチル/ヒトラーから世界を救った男

New Tricks

Lovejoy

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Pramface

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

Stealing Silver

Waking the Dead

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil

Matlock

ロリータ

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Cherished

The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura

BBC2 Play of the Week

マリーゴールド・ホテルで会いましょう

Pope John Paul II

Ivanhoe

The Jury

Screen Two

マーラー

The Thirty Nine Steps

Bergerac

白く渇いた季節

Father Brown

Scarlett

Henry VIII

Atlantis

マリーゴールド・ホテル 幸せへの第二章

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair

ケンブリッジ・スパイ~英国を裏切った美しき男たち

The Fourth Protocol

Ivanhoe

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Play for Today

プリンス・オブ・ペルシャ 時間の砂

Danny the Champion of the World

さすらいの人 オスカー・ワイルド

Casualty

Fortunes of War

ズールー戦争

ネバーセイ・ネバーアゲイン

Milner

Not with a Bang

Performance

Eleni

Jekyll & Hyde

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

Absolute Hell

Evilenko

Much Ado About Nothing

A Murder of Quality

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby

Camille

A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper

Die Habenichtse

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story

Bethune: The Making of a Hero

The Time of Their Lives

Verdi

BBC Play of the Month

Dark Floors

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish

Nijinsky

Joseph Andrews

Journey of Honor

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea

Testimony

The Riff Raff Element

Supernova

Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis

Der Blinde

Three Sisters

The Letter

Behaving Badly

A Time to Dance

Breathtaking

Secret Passage

Puccini

The War That Never Ends

Schadenfreude

A Little Place Off the Edgware Road

Theatreland

In The Cold Light Of Day

End of Term

...but the clouds...

King Lear

All Good Men

Verdi

Romeo and Juliet

Message for Posterity

My Friend Walter

Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told

Ladies' Night

Ghost Trio

For Tea on Sunday

In England's Green and Pleasant Land

Benefit to Mankind

Albert Einstein

Black Hearts in Battersea