Ballard Berkeley
Acting • Born 1904-08-06 – Died 1988-01-16
Biography
Ballard Berkeley made his professional stage debut in 1928, and performed for many years in London's West End and in New York theatres. He is best remembered as Major Gowen in the British television series "Fawlty Towers" (1975).
Filmography
101 credits
Stage Fright
Movie • 1950
Sergeant Mellish
The Blue Parrot
Movie • 1953
Supt. Chester
The Night Caller
Movie • 1965
Cmdr. Savage
The Murder Game
Movie • 1965
Sir Colin Chalmers
The Stolen Airliner
Movie • 1955
Mr Head
The Playbirds
Movie • 1978
Trainer
A Matter of Choice
Movie • 1963
Charles Grant
The Saint in London
Movie • 1939
Richard Blake
The Men of Sherwood Forest
Movie • 1954
Walter
The Betrayal
Movie • 1957
Lawson
Operation Diplomat
Movie • 1953
Inspector Austin
Dangerous Cargo
Movie • 1954
Findley
Cone of Silence
Movie • 1960
Commissioner
In Which We Serve
Movie • 1942
Engineer Commander
The Gang's All Here
Movie • 1939
Detective in Nightclub
Further Up the Creek
Movie • 1958
Whacker Payne
Night of the Demon
Movie • 1957
After the Ball
Movie • 1957
Andrews
My Teenage Daughter
Movie • 1956
Magistrate
The Flying Squad
Movie • 1940
Smuggler in Airplane
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Movie • 1980
Harry Lorradaile
3 Steps to the Gallows
Movie • 1953
Insp. Haley
The Chinese Bungalow
Movie • 1930
Richard Marquess
Jennifer Hale
Movie • 1937
Richard Severn
Black Eyes
Movie • 1939
Diner
The Wildcats of St Trinian's
Movie • 1980
Humphry Wills
Impact
Movie • 1963
Bill MacKenzie
Quiet Weekend
Movie • 1946
Jim Brent
London Melody
Movie • 1930
Jan Moor
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Movie • 1957
Lieutenant Colonel Dewar-Curie
East Meets West
Movie • 1936
Nazim
National Lampoon's European Vacation
Movie • 1985
English Motorist #2
They Made Me a Fugitive
Movie • 1947
Rockliffe
The Long Dark Hall
Movie • 1951
Supt. Maxey
The Weak and the Wicked
Movie • 1954
Police Detective
The Big Frame
Movie • 1952
Doctor
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Movie • 1958
Court Clerk (uncredited)
Chain of Events
Movie • 1958
Stockman
Forbidden Cargo
Movie • 1954
Cooper
The Frightened Man
Movie • 1952
Inspector Bligh
The Weekend Murders
Movie • 1970
Peter, the butler
Queen of the Blues
Movie • 1979
Uncle Fred (as Ballard Barclay)
Confessions of a Driving Instructor
Movie • 1976
Lord Edgar Snodley
Hostile Witness
Movie • 1968
Clerk of Court
The BFG
Movie • 1990
Head of the Army (voice)
Circumstantial Evidence
Movie • 1952
Det. Insp. Hall
Delayed Action
Movie • 1954
Insp. Crane
White Ensign
Movie • 1934
Blackmailed
Movie • 1951
Dr. McCormick
The Night Won't Talk
Movie • 1952
Britain and the Blitz
Movie • 2025
Just My Luck
Movie • 1957
Starter at Goodwood (uncredited)
Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair
Movie • 1979
Judge
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Movie • 2005
Major Gowen (archive footage) (uncredited)
Are You Being Served?
TV • 1972
Angler
Fawlty Towers
TV • 1975
Major Gowen
Fresh Fields
TV • 1984
Guy Penrose
Ivanhoe
TV • 1958
Rand the Goldsmith
Ghost Squad
TV • 1961
The Buccaneers
TV • 1956
Rafton
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
TV • 1956
The Adventures of Robin Hood
TV • 1955
Count de Waldern
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
The Main Chance
TV • 1969
Major Dibbyn
United!
TV • 1965
Maigret
TV • 1960
Dr. Pardon
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Mr. Noakes
The Adventures of Robin Hood
TV • 1955
Tybalt
Mike Yarwood In Persons
TV • 1976
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Mr. Briggs
Terry and June
TV • 1979
Colonel Culpepper
Terry and June
TV • 1979
Sir Arthur Forster-Carter
The Goodies
TV • 1970
Chairman of the British Olympic Committee
Hadleigh
TV • 1969
Lord Cranford
To the Manor Born
TV • 1979
Hartley
Sykes
TV • 1972
Lord Plunket-Taylor
Kelly Monteith
TV • 1979
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
First Committee Member
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1964
Sir Charles Baskerville
Bless This House
TV • 1971
Group Captain
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1964
Sir James Damery
Coronation Street
TV • 1960
Colonel Cantrill
The Cheaters
TV • 1960
Harry Tyler
The Cheaters
TV • 1960
Jefford
The Cheaters
TV • 1960
Mansion
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Mac
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Charles Devenish
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Victor Dowson
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Joe Magnus
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Harry Bates
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Colonel
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Bentley
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Cornford
Story Parade
TV • 1964
General Sanctuary
That's My Boy
TV • 1981
Comm. Buckley
Till Death Us Do Part
TV • 1966
Golfer
All Gas and Gaiters
TV • 1967
All Gas and Gaiters
TV • 1967
Lord Ringmould
The New Avengers
TV • 1976
Colonel Foster
Oh, Father!
TV • 1973
Dr Grant
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
Simmy Knowles