Starred in television commercials for Terrys chocolate oranges in which
he spoofed the then popular Indiana Jones movies.
Cast in the pilot episode of "Dad's Army" as an upper-class recruit, but was dropped as a regular character from the show, because the writers felt that he was too similar to Private Godfrey, played by Arnold Ridley.
The son of a travelling book salesman, he was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School. He later claimed that Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" was his favorite role.
He authored several plays and wrote three books.
1960's: Joined the Icon Theatre Company in the Lyric Hammersmith
Theatre.