Eric Dodson
Acting
Born 1920-12-01
Died 2000-01-13
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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Eric Norman Dodson (1 December 1920 – 13 January 2000) was an English actor born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, who played many roles in films and on television.
After amateur acting he joined the Royal Air Force in 1941. Following training in Canada he served in RAF Coastal Command, flew bombers and was a liaison officer in Yugoslavia. He then returned to acting with a repertory theatre in Edinburgh. He appeared as bar owner Jack Pomeroy in Series Three to Five of Rumpole of the Bailey. He also appeared in the sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum as a Brigadier, the Doctor Who story The Visitation, in Porridge as Banyard and many other roles. His film appearances included The Dock Brief (1962), Danger by My Side (1962), Strictly for the Birds (1963), Battle of Britain (1969), The Mirror Crack'd (1980), The Masks of Death (1984) and Jekyll & Hyde (1990).
In the late 1980s, Eric and his wife Rosaline made their home in Sherborne, Gloucestershire where he took a hobby repairing and making harpsichords.
He was also asked on many occasions to play the organ at the village church.
He was unable to work for the last five years of his life due to illness and died in 2000 at age 79.
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Filmography
The Saint
ITV Playhouse
'Allo 'Allo!
All Creatures Great and Small
Rumpole of the Bailey
The Sweeney
Lovejoy
The Protectors
Public Eye
The Expert
Press Gang
Poldark
Richard the Lionheart
Porridge
Suspense
Lady Killers
Fresh Fields
Father Brown
French Fields
Cribb
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
Whack-O!
The Mirror Crack'd
The Younger Generation
The Likely Lads
Battle of Britain
The World of Wodehouse
The Protectors
A Question of Guilt
Farrington of the F.O.
Jesus of Nazareth
Jekyll & Hyde
Armchair Theatre
Dr. Crippen
A Touch of the Sun
Solo for Sparrow
Doctor Who: The Visitation
The Masks of Death
Russian Roulette
Fate Takes a Hand
The Big Frame
The Dock Brief
Gang War
The Set Up
Danger by My Side
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
The Confession
The Big Boys
The Bone Grinder
Strictly for the Birds
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