Eric Dodson

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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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1990
Jekyll & Hyde
Movie Head Porter
1989
French Fields
TV show Henry
1989
Press Gang
TV show Sir Edward
1986
Farrington of the F.O.
TV show Henry Williamson
1986
Lovejoy
TV show Magistrate
1984
The Masks of Death
Movie Lord Claremont
1984
'Allo 'Allo!
TV show Intelligence Officer
1984
Fresh Fields
TV show Henry Richardson
1983
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
Movie Spenser St. John
1982
Doctor Who: The Visitation
Movie The Headman
1980
Lady Killers
TV show Dr. Henry Sworn
1980
Cribb
TV show James Archer
1980
A Question of Guilt
TV show Dr Dudley
1980
The Mirror Crack'd
Movie The Major
1978
All Creatures Great and Small
TV show Colonel D'Arcy
1975
Rumpole of the Bailey
TV show Jack Pommeroy