Ronnie barker biography

Barker was one of Britain's greatest comedy talents

For more than 20 years Ronnie Barker was one of the leading figures of British television comedy.

He was much loved and admired for his appearances in the long-running series The Two Ronnies, with Ronnie Corbett, as prison inmate Fletcher, in the series Porridge, and as Arkwright, the bumbling, stuttering, sex-obsessed shopkeeper in Open All Hours.

Ronnie Barker is one of the best-loved and most celebrated entertainers in British television history.

Ronald William George Barker was an English actor, comedian and writer.

Ronald William George Barker (25 September – 3 October ) was an English actor, comedian and writer.

Ronnie Barker has had a number of successful television as Fletcher, the cynical prisoner in Porridge; as the shopkeeper, Arkwright; and as one half of the Two.

Born.

Born in Bedford in 1929, Barker went to school in Oxford, became an architecture student and even toyed with the idea of becoming a bank manager, the archetypal middle-class profession he would later parody so effectively in his comic sketches.

However, he joined Aylesbury Repertory Company in 1948, while still in his teens, before taking to the West End stage at the invitation of Sir Peter Hall, where he appeared in Mourning Becomes Her in 1955.

Masterful wordplay

He appeared in several more plays, and also broke into radio.

He was in 300 editions of The Navy Lar