Bryan Pringle
Biography
Bryan Pringle was an English character actor whose career across theater, television and film spanned several decades. Born in Glascote and raised in Bolton, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, won the 1954 Bancroft Gold Medal, and joined the Old Vic company from 1955 to 1957 for a run of Shakespeare plays. After moving to Nottingham Playhouse, he appeared in Lindsay Anderson's West End staging of The Long and the Short and the Tall in 1959. With the Royal Shakespeare Company he scored personal successes as Stanley in The Birthday Party and Nagg in Endgame, both in 1964, and much later played Doolittle in My Fair Lady. His film work began with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), and continued with The Boy Friend (1971), Brazil (1985), Drowning by Numbers (1988) and B. Monkey (1998). On television he gained fame as Cheese & Egg in the Granada sitcom The Dustbinmen.
67years old at death
- Born Glascote
- Died London
- Star sign: CapricornLast day of the sign, on the Aquarius cusp
Movie Career
- Films
- 16
- Career span
- 38 years1960 to 1998
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Early training
Pringle trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where he won the 1954 Bancroft Gold Medal and graduated in 1955 with an Acting RADA Diploma.
First role
Pringle started out with the Old Vic company between 1955 and 1957. He appeared in Shakespeare plays alongside Coral Browne, John Neville and Claire Bloom, and toured with four of them.
A first
Pringle appeared briefly and uncredited as a driver in Lawrence of Arabia in 1962, and he delivers the final line of the film.
Beyond film
In 1985 Pringle appeared in a well-known Heineken beer commercial as a cockney elocutionist trying to teach an upper-class woman to say a line about water in Majorca.
Bryan Pringle movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Terry Gilliam directed two of these films. Roger Ashton-Griffiths appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Roger Ashton-Griffiths's page
Sam Neill's page
Jonathan Pryce's page
Peter Vaughan's page
Bernard Lee's page
Michael Palin's page
All films by Terry Gilliam
Also two films together4 more actors
- Derek FrancisJabberwocky (1977) and Ring of Spies (1964)
- Murray MelvinThe Boy Friend (1971) and H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
- Alister WilliamsonThe Brain (1962) and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
- Irene RichmondThe Brain (1962) and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Bryan Pringle's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$101 million
9 of the 15 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 15 films: 9 worldwide figure; 2 never in cinemas; 4 figure not found.
- 9Worldwide figure
- 2Never in cinemas
- 4Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$72M71.1% of the total
- 2$10.0M9.9% of the total
- 3$8.0M7.9% of the total
- 4$4.0M4.0% of the total
- 5$3.2M3.2% of the total
- 6$3.0M3.0% of the total
- 7$490K0.5% of the total
- 8$425K0.4% of the total
$50,832from the other 1 film with a worldwide figure, 0% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.