John Fraser

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Biography

Chief producer at EMI Classics.

  • Name variations
  • Fraser·John Frasier
  • Primary profession
  • Actor
  • Nationality
  • British (modern)
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 12 February 1896
  • Place of birth
  • London
  • Death date
  • 2010-09-01
  • Death age
  • 61
  • Place of death
  • Bedford· Pennsylvania
  • Children
  • Education
  • Trinity College· Cambridge·University of Aberdeen·University of Edinburgh Medical School·University of East Anglia·Upper Canada College·Memorial University of Newfoundland·University of Aberdeen·Sidney Sussex College· Cambridge·King's College London·St Paul's School· London
  • Knows language
  • English language·English language·English language·English language·English language·English language
  • Member of
  • Watford F.C.·Glentoran F.C.·Portsmouth F.C.·Margate F.C.·Sunderland A.F.C.·Durban City F.C.·Oxford City F.C.·Oxford City F.C.·Brentford F.C.·Fulham F.C.·Scotland national football team·Scottish Football League XI·Stenhousemuir F.C.·Hibernian F.C.·Dundee F.C.·Newcastle United F.C.·Notts County F.C.·Dumbarton F.C.·St Mirren F.C.·Motherwell F.C.·Southampton F.C.·Clyde F.C.·Stranraer F.C.·Stirling Albion F.C.·Forfar Athletic F.C.·Arbroath F.C.·Ross County F.C.·Dunfermline Athletic F.C.·Ontario Liberal Party·Conservative Party of Canada
  • Parents
  • Alexander Fraser·

Movies

TV

Books

Awards

Trivia

He discovered Patrick Wymark s body after Wymark had died in Australia while on a theater tour.

Author of Close Up (memoirs published in 2004), Bard in the Bush (about his touring company the London Shakespeare Company), novels - Clap Hands If You Believe in Fairies, In Place of Reason, and a play - Cannibal Crackers.

In the 1960s his novel Clap Hands If You Believe in Fairies was a first in bringing the devastation caused by the thalidomide drug to the attention of a wider public.

(December 2004) Now retired from film making and acting; living in Tuscany in Italy.

He was awarded the C.M. (Member of the Order of Canada) on October 18, 2001 for his services to communications in Canada.

(July 2007) Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Chef/owner of Dovetail" restaurant.

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