A British actor with a list of screen credits that top 150, including such recent hits as The Crown (2016), on television, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel (2011 and 2015) and Darkest Hour (2017) in cinemas. He was nominated for a BAFTA in 1984 jointly for television single dramas Orwell On Jura and Waters of the Moon.
Read Ronald Pickup's Guardian obituary