Raymond Adamson

{{Short description|English actor (1920–2002)}}

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Raymond John Adamson (7 July 1920 – 25 March 2002) was a British actor often on television.{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/taw/raymond-adamson/past|title=Raymond Adamson | Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com|access-date=8 April 2021|archive-date=11 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011043135/https://theatricalia.com/person/taw/raymond-adamson/past|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/raymond-adamson-p305283|title=Raymond Adamson | TV, Documentary and Other Appearances|website=AllMovie}}

Born in Beckenham, then in Kent, he made his TV debut in 1956, playing a constable in David Copperfield.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba306e016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127211258/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba306e016|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 November 2020|title=Raymond Adamson|website=BFI}} He became typecast playing policemen or lawmen, also playing policeman in series such as Oliver Twist (1962), Out of This World (1962), Dixon of Dock Green (1964), The Baron (1966), and New Scotland Yard (1972) and he also played a senator in Bergerac in the early 1980s. Other appearances include The Saint (1966), The Avengers{{cite book|last=Rogers|first=Dave|title=The Avengers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W0MNAQAAMAAJ|access-date=10 April 2012|date=25 April 1983|publisher=ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph|page=155|isbn=9780907965091 }} (in the episodes The Decapod (1962), The Grandeur That Was Rome (1963), The Avengers (1969)), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (in the episode Murder Ain't What it Used to Be) (1969), Within These Walls (1974-5) and the short film The Orchard End Murder (1980).{{Cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=86|title=Raymond Adamson|website=www.aveleyman.com}} His final appearance was as an auction porter in Seen a Ghost (1997).