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Ronald Egan Randell (8 October 1918 – 11 June 2005) was an Australian actor. After beginning his acting career on the stage in 1937, he played Charles Kingsford Smith in the film Smithy (1946). He also had roles in Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947), Kiss Me Kate (1953), I Am a Camera (1955), Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961) and King of Kings (1961).
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Ron Randell portrayed two characters on Bewitched - Darrin's mortal friend, Bob Frazer, and Samantha's warlock ex-boyfriend, Rollo.
Sydney-born Ron Randell began his six-decade-long career in his teens on radio in his native Australia for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He promptly moved to the stage, where he acted with the Minerva Theatre Group from 1937 to 1946, while intermittently appearing in Australian films. Well-received reviews for his title role in the movie, Pacific Adventure (1946), led to a Hollywood contract, making his debut in It Had to Be You (1947) in support of Ginger Rogers and Cornel Wilde.
Randell went on to play both hero and villain in both lead and supporting capacities. His host of "B" pictures included short runs as supersleuth "Bulldog Drummond" and "the Lone Wolf". Although he was never a top name per se, he led a durable transatlantic film career for much of the 50s and 60s, which included a minor role as composer Cole Porter in Kiss Me Kate (1953), lead in the gangster flick, Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961) and Lucius, the Centurion who tries to save Jesus at his trial, and becomes converted to Christianity after the Crucifixion in King of Kings (1961).
From the "Golden Age" of 50s television, he went on star in the American/British espionage series, O.S.S. (1957), for a season, and guest-starred on such programs as Bewitched (1964), The Farmer's Daughter (1963), Mission: Impossible (1966), Bonanza (1959) and The F.B.I. (1965), playing a number of cultivated gents.
On Broadway, he enjoyed healthy critical successes, such as "The Browning Version" (1949), a revival of "Candida" (1952), "The World of Suzie Wong" (1958), "Butley" (1972), "Sherlock Holmes" (1975), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1976) and "Bent" (1979). He continued his stage career, in fact, well into the 1990s, including a stint with the late Tony Randall's National Actors Theater company which included a run of "The School for Scandal" (1995).
•Bob Frazer in "Which Witch Is Which?"
•Rollo in "Once in a Vial"
Ron Randell on the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on November 30, 2019.
Once in a Vial: Directed by Bruce Bilson. With Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Joan Tompkins. Endora gets Samantha's old beau Rollo the warlock to tempt Samantha. After she rejects him he tries to use a love potion on her that Endora accidentally drinks.
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- Bruce Bilson
- 1968-01-04
Randell died following complications of a stroke in a Los Angeles assisted facility at age 86 on June 11, 2005. He was survived by his longtime third wife, exotic-looking actress Laya Raki, once billed as "the black-haired volcano." He had no children from his three marriages.
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(TV Episode 1965) - Ron Randell as Bob Frazer - IMDb. Watchlist. New Customer? Showing all 16 items. Jump to: Photos (2) Quotes (14) Photos. Quotes. Bob Frazer : [referring to Mrs. Kravitz] Is she a friend of yours? Endora : [disguised as Samantha] I hope not.
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.
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