Ron Haddrick

Ron Haddrick was an Australian actor and narrator whose work in theater, radio, television and film covered some seventy years. Born in Adelaide, he made his first stage appearance in 1949 at the Adelaide Tivoli Theatre, then spent five seasons at the Stratford Memorial Theatre, where he acted alongside Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Peggy Ashcroft. Back in Sydney he joined the Trust Players and later played more than forty productions with the Old Tote Theatre Company, becoming known for Shakespearean roles and for his long stage partnership with Ruth Cracknell. On television he appeared as Dr. William Redfern in The Outcasts and as Adam Suisse in The Stranger, and he voiced Ebenezer Scrooge in two Australian adaptations of A Christmas Carol. He also narrated the audio books of the Deltora Quest series, and in 2012 received an Actors Equity Lifetime Achievement Award.