- As well as an actor, he is also a musician and fronts the country-rock band The Bunch of Thieves. He has also guested with The Saw Doctors. As a youth, he played in a band called The Paris Valentinoes, with Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke, who would later join Morrissey to form the legendary alternative rock band The Smiths.
- Checked into a clinic suffering from alcohol abuse having slipped and cut his head open on the set of Coronation Street (1960). Took lengthy time off to recover.
- He has a son, Ryan Williams, from his first marriage. He has two daughters, Katie May (b. 20 January 2004) and Grace, from his marriage to Clare Kennedy.
- Cousin of Chris Hook, of 60s group, Temperance Seven.
- Cousin of Stefan Cush, frontman of folk-rockers, The Men They Couldn't Hang.
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