Bryan Pringle (19 January 1935 - 15 May 2002) was a long serving British actor who appeared in television, film and theatre productions throughout a career which spanned almost four decades. Pringle is best remembered for playing Barker in the Inspector Morse episode "Deceived by Flight" in 1989, and as a friend of Eddie Royle's in EastEnders in 1991.

While much of his TV career was as a character actor, he also appeared in many films, beginning with the 1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. He was a regular in director Ken Russell's work, commencing with the part of Charles Pooter in Diary of a Nobody, made for BBC 2, in 1964. He continued to be cast in many independent films, such as Brazil and Drowning By Numbers. He played Len Wiles, the adoptive father of Terry Wiles in the BBC drama 'On Giant's Shoulders' [1979].

Born in Tamworth, Staffordshire but raised in the Lancashire town of Bolton he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In 1958, he married character actress Anne Jameson, together they had two children. She died in 1999.

He officially opened the first Meadows Festival in Edinburgh in 1975.

Television roles

Year	Title	Role
1968 to 1970	The Dustbinmen	Cheese & Egg
1974	The Pallisers	Mr. Monk
1983	Last of the Summer Wine	Ludovic
1985	Auf Wiedersehen, Pet	Arthur Pringle
1988	All Creatures Great and Small	Grimsdale
1990	Wish Me Luck	Father Martin
1997	A Prince Among Men	Vince Hibbert

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