Ronald Baddiley

Baddiley voiced the character of Percy Hood in BBC radio drama The Archers{{cite news |last= Payne |first= Tom |title= Peggy Woolley actress: 'The creator of The Archers thought he was God' |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/peggy-woolley-actress-the-creator-of-the-archers-thought-he-was/| date= 26 December 2015|newspaper= The Daily Telegraph |location=London| accessdate=8 September 2016 }} and first appeared on television in April 1956 playing the orchestra conductor in the TV short The Cobbler's Belle.{{cite web |url= http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8fcee4a57a8f4709b79c425b60435d64|title= The Cobbler's Belle|author= | website= BBC Genome Project |publisher= BBC| accessdate= 13 September 2016 }} In the same year he played Mr. Hepton in dramatist David Turner's Fresh as Paint{{cite web |url= http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/dc28a750d8fa456a811561f1f1adbacd|title= Fresh as Paint|author= | website= BBC Genome Project |publisher= BBC| accessdate= 13 September 2016 }} and the policeman in One Fight More by David Campton and Stephen Joseph.{{cite web |url= http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/140e6aa687ba458dae87c2ddb29aa61f|title= One Fight More|author= | website= BBC Genome Project |publisher= BBC| accessdate= 13 September 2016 }}

The following year he played PC Sanders in 4 episodes of The Other Man,{{cite web |url= http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3e6f8a53f9854a3ebe2049a553c0ad0f|title= The Other Man: Episode 5|author= | website= BBC Genome Project |publisher= BBC| accessdate= 13 September 2016 }} and in 1958 Baddiley appeared in two BBC radio productions of Shakespeare, playing the parts of an outlaw and Panthino in the comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona,{{cite web |url= http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av70934|title= Two Gentlemen of Verona, The|author= |website= British Universities Film & Video Council | accessdate= 9 September 2016 }} and Abram in the tragedy Romeo and Juliet.{{cite web |url= http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av70933|title= Romeo and Juliet |author= |website= British Universities Film & Video Council | accessdate= 9 September 2016 }}

Baddiley performed alongside Arthur Lowe in the BBC Radio Third Programme production of Billy's Last Stand, the first play written by English author Barry Hines.{{cite web |url= http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/alistair-billys-last-stand.html |title= Billy's Last Stand, by Barry Hines |last= Wyper| first= Alistair| date= October 2015 |website= Sutton Elms Diversity website | accessdate= 7 September 2016 }}{{cite news |title= Some Corruptions of Power | date= 13 August 1965|newspaper= The Times |location=London| issue= 56399| page= 11 }}

He featured in two BBC Radio 2 programmes on the same day in March 1968, appearing first in The Men from the Ministry and later alongside Clive Dunn, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, and Patricia Hayes in the Esmonde and Larbey comedy You're Only Old Once.{{cite news | author= |title= Listings| url= http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/radio2/1968-03-10| date= 10 March 1968|work= Radio Times |location=London| issue= 2313| page= 18| accessdate=16 September 2016 }}

In 1970, Baddiley appeared as Freddie Daring in the satirical film The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, and as himself in A Career in Shipbuilding (1975), directed by John Reeve and written by Ronald Dunkley.{{cite web |url= http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba37c1b01|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160928022410/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba37c1b01|url-status= dead|archive-date= 28 September 2016|title= Ronald Baddiley: Filmography |author= | publisher= British Film Institute | accessdate= 9 September 2016 }}

Baddiley was railway inspector Mr Bun in the early 1970s series Parsley Sidings, which reunited him with Arthur Lowe, who played the stationmaster Horace Hepplewhite.{{cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pcz6r|title= Parsley Sidings, Series 1 Episode 7 of 10: Cricket, Lovely Cricket|author= | publisher= BBC | accessdate= 14 September 2016 }}

In January 1980, Baddiley was Bird One in Fit the Tenth of the second series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Later that year he played Cervantes in a two-part BBC radio adaptation of Don Quixote.{{cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k0d1|title= Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote |author= |publisher= BBC | accessdate= 14 September 2016 }}

In 1981, Baddiley voiced the (uncredited) role of the British news reel commentator in five episodes of the TV series Private Schulz and the following year appeared as Lt Col Walter Anderson in the ITV Granada series Crown Court.

In 1983, Baddiley played Montague in the BBC Radio 3 production of Romeo and Juliet.{{cite web |url= http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av67917|title= Romeo and Juliet|author= |website= British Universities Film & Video Council | accessdate= 8 September 2016 }}

Baddiley first appeared in The Archers on 12 December 1953 playing the part of the Squire; his final appearance on the programme was on 4 April 1966 in the role of Harvey Grenville.{{cite web |url= http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbchomeservice/basic/1966-04-04#at-13.30|title= Listings: The Archers 4 April 1966 |author= | website= BBC Genome Project |publisher= BBC| accessdate= 13 September 2016 }} In between, he played other parts in the series, including that of Percy Hood in 1956.{{cite web |url= http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/light/1956-06-30#at-20.00|title= Listings: The Archers 30 June 1956 |author= | website= BBC Genome Project |publisher= BBC| accessdate= 13 September 2016 }}

Baddiley died suddenly on 29 November 1986; his funeral service and cremation were held five days later at Breakspear Crematorium, Ruislip, west London on Thursday 4 December.{{cite news | title= Births, Marriages, Deaths | date= 3 December 1986|newspaper= The Times |location=London| page= 19| issue= 62631 }}

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