BAFTA Award in the category of Best Light Entertainment Performance given to Ronnie Barker in 1975 for Porridge. Statuette of a face mounted on a wooden block.

A bronze moulded mask of a face, with the left eye cut out, mounted on a wooden cube block, labelled with a square brass plaque. The hollow reverse of the mask bears an electronic symbol around one eye and a screen symbol around the other, linking dramatic production and television technology.

Given by Charlotte Barker, daughter of the late Ronald Barker OBE.

Statuette awarded to Ronnie Barker at the BAFTA awards 1975.

In 1955, a trophy mask was commissioned by Andrew Miller-Jones of the [then] Guild of Television Producers. Mitzi Cunliffe originally modelled the mask in Plasticine, from which the casting moulds were made, and though based on the traditional concept of the theatrical tragicomic mask, it is more complex than its immediate front facial appearance suggests. The hollow reverse of the mask bears an electronic symbol around one eye and a screen symbol around the other, linking dramatic production and television technology, and the full intention of Mitzi's original design included a revolving support to allow the mask to be turned and viewed easily from either side.

BAFTA Award in the category of Best Light Entertainment Performance presented to Ronnie Barker for Porridge by The British Academy of Film and Television Arts ca. 1975. Features a bronze face mask mounted on a wooden cube stand bearing an inscribed brass plaque.

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