AN ACTORS' actor, Fraser Kerr was born and brought up in Springburn, Glasgow, where he trained, making many appearances on Scottish Radio as a boy and teenager. He joined the Fraser Neal Players doing repertory at Edinburgh and Glasgow, was in several Scottish pantomimes for the same company, and appeared at the Edinburgh Festival with Sonia Dresdel in Miss Julie and The Spring of Others.

On his arrival across the Border he was in repertory at Paignton, Retford, and Leicester. In the 1955/56 season as a member of the Old Vic Company, directed by Tyrone Gutherie and Robert Helpman, he appeared with John Neville, Coral Brown, and Paul Rogers in Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Troilus and Cressida - playing at the Old Vic, touring Canada and the United States, and appearing at The Winter Gardens Theatre on Broadway. Other West End appearances included an enormous success as Carnoustie Bligh in Watch It Sailor with Kathleen Harrison at both the Aldwych and Apollo Theatres; The Hard Man at the Donmar and the Arts Theatre; and the musical Brigadoon at the Victoria Palace. He toured in The Hasty Heart as Lachlen with Patricia Plunket and This Happy Home with Dorothy Summers, and most importantly, in Night Must Fall with Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sir Lewis Casson, and Adam Faith.

Films in which he featured included Theatre of Death; Carry on Regardless; Nothing But The Night, and Walt

Disney's Thomasina; and on television in Upstairs, Downstairs; The Wicked Women Plays; Howard's Way; Doctor in The House; On The Buses; Please Sir; Never a Cross Word; Yes, Prime Minister.

He is pictured (above) in his role as powerboat tycoon Bob McIntyre in Howard's Way.

On radio he was particularly popular having been in the BBC Drama Rep Company four times, making at least 600 programmes.

Fraser was very well known as the reader of The Morning Story, and especially as Richard Hannay in Norman Wright's production of John Buchan's The Adventures of Richard Hannay series.

He died on March 19 of cancer at the Middlesex Hospital.