Rupert Frazer (born 12 March 1947) is a British actor.
[2] In 1975, he played the title role in the first British stage production of Seneca's Thyestes.
[3] Other theatre roles include Ferdinand in The Tempest and Tamburlaine.
[7] In Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987) he plays the father of the protagonist Jim (Christian Bale).
[8][9] Other roles include Philip Castallack in Penmarric (1979),[10][11] Muller in Eye of the Needle (1981), Lionel Stephens in The Shooting Party (1985),[12] Algernon Moncrieff (Algy) in a 1986 tv-production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest,[13] Alan Desland in The Girl in a Swing (1988),[14][15] Lord Alexander Montford in The House of Eliott[16] and Neville Chamberlain in Downton Abbey.