Freddie Fletcher

Freddie Fletcher (born ca. 1950) is an English actor best known for playing Jud Casper, in Ken Loach's award-winning 1969 film Kes.

Fletcher was born in Grimethorpe, West Riding of Yorkshire, and attended Willowgarth Secondary School. He later said, "The only acting I did was in the headmaster's office". When he left school he worked as a painter and decorater for a large firm, until Ken Loach cast him as Jud Casper, the violent brother of Billy Casper in his award-winning film Kes.

Like many of the actors in Kes, Fletcher had no formal acting experience, but almost immediately found television work when the film was universally praised.

He had a regular television role as layabout Raymond Shepherd, one of Diana Dors's wayward sons in the popular comedy series Queenie's Castle. The show was first broadcast on bonfire night in 1970 and ran for two years. 18 episodes were made each lasting 30 minutes.

Shortly before Queenie's Castle came to an end in September 1972, in the January of that year he was seen as a football team captain in Jack Rosenthal's BAFTA nominated drama Another Sunday and Sweet F.A., which was part of Granada Television's Sunday Night Theatre series.

For the rest of the 1970s, Fletcher worked in various television plays, including four BBC Play for Today films between 1973-1978. He also made another successful movie, playing one of the ship's radio officers in the British thriller Juggernaut in 1974, starring Richard Harris and Anthony Hopkins.

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