Eric Dodson

Known for ActingBorn 1920-12-01Died 2000-01-13Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Expert

Richard the Lionheart

The Younger Generation

Porridge

Public Eye

Cribb

The Sweeney

The Bone Grinder

'Allo 'Allo!

All Creatures Great and Small

Press Gang

Farrington of the F.O.

Doctor Who: The Visitation

Lady Killers

Lovejoy

French Fields

The Saint

The Likely Lads

Rumpole of the Bailey

Fresh Fields

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

ITV Playhouse

Poldark

Gang War

Battle of Britain

Whack-O!

Father Brown

Fate Takes a Hand

Suspense

The Dock Brief

The Mirror Crack'd

Jekyll & Hyde

The Protectors

Dr. Crippen

A Touch of the Sun

Armchair Theatre

Strictly for the Birds

Danger by My Side

The Masks of Death

The Big Frame

The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace

Russian Roulette

The Confession

The World of Wodehouse

The Set Up

Solo for Sparrow

The Big Boys

Jesus of Nazareth