Mike Pratt
Actor
Biography
Mike Pratt was a British actor, musician, songwriter and screenwriter. He commenced his career in showbusiness during the skiffle boom of the 1950s, playing and writing music alongside friends Tommy Steele and Lionel Bart. Bart and Pratt received the 1957 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for Steele's hit Little White Bull, and Pratt won his second Ivor Novello for a Handful of Songs, which he co-wrote with Steele. Despite several big screen and theatre credits including a stint with the RSC, Pratt was (and remains) best known for his role as Jeff Randall in the late 1960s ITC detective series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) alongside Kenneth Cope and Annette Andre. Mike Pratt died from lung cancer in July 1976, aged 45. His son is Guy Pratt, a session bass guitarist best known for his live performances with Pink Floyd (since 1987) and offshoot solo projects with David Gilmour and Nick Mason.
Filmography
The Vault of Horror
as Clive (segment 1 "Midnight Mess") 1973
Robbery
as Bob (uncredited) 1967
Sitting Target
as Prison Warder Accomplice 1972
A Dandy in Aspic
as Greff 1968
The Fixer
as Father Anastasy 1968
The Party's Over
as Geronimo 1965
Swallows and Amazons
as Mr Dixon 1974
Goodbye Gemini
as Rod Barstowe 1970
This Is My Street
as Sid Graham 1964
Assassin
as Matthew 1973
Face of a Stranger
as Harry 1964
The Gentleman Caller
as Clack 1967
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
as Jack Straw 1969
Anywhere but England
as Stanley 1972