Ronald Magill
Ronald Magill (* April 21, 1920 in Hull, Yorkshire, † September 6, 2007 in London ) was an English stage, film and television actor.
Life and career
He grew up the son of a teacher -married couple. After his father died in 1929, Magill's mother went back to Ireland and let Ronald in Birmingham back in an orphanage. He saw his mother only during the holidays.
Between 1963 and 1968 he worked at the Nottingham Playhouse in Nottingham as an actor and director. In 1970, he starred in a film version of Julius Caesar with John Gielgud and Charlton Heston. Since 1972, Magill was one of the most famous actors on British television. The role of the grumpy Pubbesitzers Amos Brearly in the soap opera Emmerdale, he played well into the 1990s. Chance led Magill also theater director, he also wrote the book for a musical version of A Christmas Carol.
His life companion David Soar, with whom he lived for 32 years, died in 1997.