---
name: "Ray Mort"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ray-mort"
fi1m_id: "ray-mort"
imdb_id: "nm0607730"
tmdb_id: 249810
wikidata_id: "Q133306198"
roles: []
born: "10 January 1926"
died: "4 July 1994"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 63
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-07T11:01:49.518718+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ray Mort

## Identity

Ray Mort

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ray-mort
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ray-mort
- **IMDb ID:** nm0607730
- **TMDB ID:** 249810
- **Wikidata ID:** Q133306198
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Mort, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133306198, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607730/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/249810

Actor. Born 10 January 1926 in Bury, Lancashire, England, UK. Died 4 July 1994.

## Details

- **Born:** 10 January 1926, Bury, Lancashire, England, UK
- **Died:** 4 July 1994
- **Active:** 1975–1984
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 85 (1), 1980s 52 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 1, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $22m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Mort, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133306198, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607730/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/249810

## Biography

Ray Mort (10 January 1926 – 4 July 1994) was an English actor. He began his career in repertory companies in Yorkshire and Lancashire, remaining active from the early 1950s to 1989.

He was best known for playing Ray in the sitcom *Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt* (1976–1977) and Ern in the *Play for Today* trilogy of *The Fishing Party* (1972), *Shakespeare or Bust* (1973) and *Three for the Fancy* (1974). Other television credits included George in *Duty Free* (1984), Mr Wiggins in *All Creatures Great and Small* (1978 and 1988), a policeman in *Only Fools and Horses* (1983), an angler in *The Good Life* (1975), Campie in *Lovejoy* (1986) and Albert Monday in *Casualty* (1987). He also appeared as the Playground Father in the film *Pink Floyd: The Wall* (1982).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, comedy.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Duty Free* (1984), Fi1m 34, as George — [page](https://film.one/tv/duty-free.md)
- *Pink Floyd: The Wall* (1982), Fi1m 69, as Playground Father — [page](https://film.one/film/pink-floyd-the-wall.md)
- *The Good Life* (1975), Fi1m 85, as Angler — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-life.md)

## Complete filmography (47)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Vanity Fair* (1987), series, as Raggles
- *Casualty* (1986), series, as Albert Monday — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)
- *Lovejoy* (1986), series, as Campie
- *Lytton's Diary* (1985), series, as Porter
- *Duty Free* (1984), series, as George — Fi1m 34, [page](https://film.one/tv/duty-free.md)
- *Cymbeline* (1983), as Gaoler
- *Birth of a Nation* (1983), as Whittaker
- *Tales Out of School* (1983), series, as Whittaker
- *Pink Floyd: The Wall* (1982), as Playground Father — Fi1m 69, [page](https://film.one/film/pink-floyd-the-wall.md)
- *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1981), as Snug
- *Codename Icarus* (1981), series, as Mr Smith
- *Bergerac* (1981), series, as Kranski
- *Only Fools and Horses* (1981), series, as Policeman — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/only-fools-and-horses.md)
- *Sounding Brass* (1980), series, as Gerry Thompson
- *Thicker Than Water* (1980), as George Willis
- *Minder* (1979), series, as Billy from Leeds — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/minder.md)
- *The Winter Ladies* (1979), as Mr. French
- *The Other Side* (1979), series, as Frank
- *Born and Bred* (1978), series, as Donald Duffy
- *All Creatures Great and Small* (1978), series, as Mr. Wiggins, Mr Wiggins
- *Rogue Male* (1976), as Gerald
- *The XYY Man* (1976), series, as DS King
- *Our Mutual Friend* (1976), series, as Reginald 'Rumty' Wilfer
- *It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow* (1975), as John Bell
- *The Good Life* (1975), series, as Angler — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-life.md)
- *The Evacuees* (1975), as Louis Miller
- *The Sweeney* (1975), series, as Bernard Driscoll — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sweeney.md)
- *Churchill's People* (1974), series, as Church Commissioner
- *Haunted: The Ferryman* (1974), as Fred Burge
- *Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!* (1974), series, as Ray
- *South Riding* (1974), series, as Barney Holly
- *South Riding* (1974), Actor
- *The Carnforth Practice* (1974), series, as George Hale
- *Three for the Fancy* (1974), as Ern
- *Shabby Tiger* (1973), series, as Joe Kepple
- *The Ring of Truth* (1973), as Albert Pickard
- *Shakespeare or Bust* (1973), as Ern
- *Crown Court* (1972), series, as John Winder
- *Country Matters* (1972), series, as Albert Pickard
- *The Fishing Party* (1972), as Ern
- *Justice* (1971), series, as Ted Watson
- *Clean Sweep* (1971), as Second Foreman
- *Doomwatch* (1970), series, as Bill Jones
- *Serjeant Musgrave's Dance* (1965), series, as Slow Collier
- *Thirty-Minute Theatre* (1965), series, as Arnold Kid Boscoe
- *Londoners* (1965), series, as Jim
- *The Wednesday Play* (1964), series, as Jim

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